Re: Accessibility access to visual annotation markers outside of Glyph Gutter

Hej Stefik,

the diff and folding are separate sidebars. So have a look in the modules
where the sidebars are defined to see the internal data structure.

At least for folding there is a separate public API, which you can use:
http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-netbeans-modules-editor-fold/index.html



With kind regards, markiewb

2016-06-15 20:04 GMT+02:00 Andreas Stefik <[email protected]>:

> All,
>
> I'm working on adding some new Accessibility features into NetBeans,
> namely to increase accessibility with Git Support and Code folding for the
> Quorum 4.0 release. In the past, when I've wanted to access visual aspects
> of the editor, I do things like this:
>
> BaseDocument document = (BaseDocument) text.getDocument();
> Annotations docAnnotations = document.getAnnotations();
>
> Once I have the annotations, it tells me things like whether there is a
> little lightbulb in the corner, compiler errors, or things like that.
> That's useful for making editor hints, errors, and a bunch of other things
> accessible. However, for GIT support and code folding, for which the visual
> elements are not in the glyph gutter, I'm guessing these aren't stored as
> annotations.
>
> Is there a way to get which visual markers are active on the line for
> Version control and code folding information? I've been digging through the
> docs, but have come up dry.
>
> Stefik
>
> P.S. The reason I ask is because blind students across the U.S. are
> starting to form robotics teams and we're having them use GIT, as it's
> mostly accessible. Thus, I'm trying to get it accessible inside of NetBeans.
>