Re: Support of IAccessibleEditableText::replaceText method (IAccessible2 interface) in Firefox 3.0(.12)

On Jul 23, 12:35 am, laurent gautier <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use accessibility to fill fields (write)  in Firefox and
> other web browsers.
>
> I know that firefox has not implemented the put_accValue method of the
> IAccessible interface. So i am using IAccessible2 to write into Firefox
> fields, and more specifically the IAccessibleEditableText object and its
> replaceText method. My program is a C++ program and i am also using
> IAccessible2Proxy.dll.
>
> Everything works fine with Firefox 3.5 but Firefox 3.0.12 returns an error
> 0x80004005 when calling replaceText (saying, I guess, that the method is not
> implemented).
>
> A response coming from Aaron Leventhal (01-2008) to a quite similar question
> about put_accValue support in firefox was :
> *"put_accValue isn't all that useful since you can only change the entire
> string at once.
> That's why we have methods to move the caret, delete a substring, insert
> text at an offset, etc. in the IAccessible2 family of interfaces which
> Firefox 3 beta supports "*
>
> But Is really Firefox 3.0 supporting IAccessibleEditableText  ant its method
> replaceText ?


It should. At least IA2 IAccessibleEditableText was implemented in
Firefox 3.0 and iirc nothing was changed from those times.

Alex.