Re: extended zvt widget

Marc Mulcahy <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:12:00 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.lib.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Looks like there should be no problems, I'll verify...

Marc

At 05:57 PM 4/30/2002 +0200, Cristiano De Michele wrote:
>Hi,
>I gave a quick look at zvt accessibility sources and
>there shouldn't anything broken though we need to check
>of course, anyway the only problem I saw is that
>I extended the line zvt struct adding for each char a unsigned
>char to put extra attributes such as that related to SPA/DEC
>protected modes,
>in fact zvt_term_get_buffer works exactly in the same way...
>                                            Cristiano
>
>On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 17:35, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 14:41, Cristiano De Michele wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 16:29, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 23:27, Cristiano De Michele wrote:
> > ...>
> >
> > > > However Cristiano, did you notice the accessibility
> > > > code in libzvt when you were working on it, and did you check to see if
> > > > it still worked after your changes?  That's something that would 
> need to
> > > > be confirmed before applying any changes to libzvt.
> > > >
> > > > best regards,
> > > >
> > > > -Bill
> > > Hi Bill,
> > > I used profterm with my patched applied without any problem and
> > > I also run vttest inside profterm having no problem,
> > > should I do anything specific to test accessibility with my patches?
> >
> > Hi Cristiano:
> >
> > Yes, those two tests will tell you nothing at all about the
> > accessibility support.  If you test with ferret (from cvs module gail)
> > and simple-at (from at-spi) that will give you some information.  Ferret
> > is probably the easier of the two tests to set up and run, though its
> > coverage is rather limited.
> > in csh:
> >
> > setenv GTK_MODULES gail:ferret
> >
> > run the terminal window with the "Text" tab frontmost in the ferret
> > window, and check for inconsistencies.
> >
> > Actually testing the libzvt accessibility coverage thoroughly is not a
> > trivial task, but ferret will give you some feedback and of course you
> > could patch ferret to give better coverage of the AtkText interfaces as
> > needed for libzvt.
> >
> > You might glance at the code for accessibility support in libzvt (the
> > code that does things like implement atk_text_get_text_at_offset, etc.)
> > and also make sure you haven't changed the behavior of internal zvt
> > signal which the accessibility support relies on.  I think it's likely
> > that any substantial changes in libzvt (which it sounds as if you have
> > done) would break at least some of the accessibility support.  At this
> > late date no one should be changing code that accessibility uses without
> > trying to test it.
> >
> > I recognize that the available test tools for accessibility may make it
> > hard to do these regression tests at the moment, please feel free to
> > help in that regard :-)
> >
> > best regards,
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > > ...I could give you some more infos on my patches of course
> > > but split them in separate bugs it's not feasible and even
> > > meaningless IMHO what's your opinio about? what should I do?
> > >
> > >                                             regards Cristiano
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >   Cristiano De Michele,
> > >   Department of Physics,
> > >   University "Federico II" of Naples
> > >
> >
> >
>--
>   Cristiano De Michele,
>   Department of Physics,
>   University "Federico II" of Naples
>
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