Re: Describing an application state in ATK, without Gtk
On 2015-06-22 at 14:48, Alejandro Piñeiro wrote:
> So it would be something like a notification with the state of the
> application?
More or less. But a notification in the sense of libnotify is
transient; what I'm working on is the state of an application, which may
change over time (controlled by keyboard events, already handled in a
non-toolkit application) ; the whole state is currently a single text
label. I'm not sure if I have to worry about focus, as only one element
is present. The graphical interface is even fullscreen, so there's
absolutely nothing else to be presented.
> I will try to explain it with the usual client-side terminology (as you
> mention below that it was how it was previously explained to
> you). [...]
Thanks; this matches what I read. Indeed my code has to work as a server.
> (focusable, providing
> info) ui element on your app, you should ensure that has a proper name,
> role (ie: ATK_ROLE_BUTTON) and state set (ie:
> ATK_STATE_ACTIVE+ATK_STATE_CHECKED, etc).
I'll keep that into account.
> [...] but right now can
> just call the bridge initialization. The method is
> atk_bridge_adaptor_init [1].
I had seen no code doing it. Thanks. That might be the solution of all
my problems.
> I hope that my explanation of what "client" and "server" could clarify
> your doubts.
Your answer seems very useful, but I don't see any misconception I had
with respect to servers and clients. Have I missed something? I really
would like to understand this better.
> As far as I understand your problem, and as others say,
> linking directly to libatspi would not solve your issue. libatspi is
> intended to be used to write accessibility tools, like Orca.
Therefore for clients.
AT-SPI clients seem very easy to write; I've played with the C programs
in https://github.com/infapi00/at-spi2-examples , which work well and
are very short. But ATK servers are involved.
> In addition to the small tests at atk, you can find some tests at
> at-spi2-atk/tests. They are still unit tests, but they set all the
> stack. Take a look to see if it is what you need.
Will do. Thanks again.
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Luca Saiu
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