Re: Firefox 4 beta 8 -> get_accChild() returns E_INVALIDARG

Alexander Surkov <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:45:58 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.accessibility
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Then here's a problem since they are 0-based in Firefox crossplatform layer.


On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Sylvain WERDEFROY
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Not sure, but I think indices are 1-based. The zero value is CHILDID_SELF.
>
> Sylvain
>
> Le 11 janv. 2011 à 08:05, Alexander Surkov
> <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
>> Hi, Sylvain.
>>
>> Indices are zero-based, though if 5th is BR then there's still a
>> problem. I'll take a look.
>>
>> Thank you.
>> Alex.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Sylvain <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Hi Alexander,
>>>
>>> Here is the html page: www.swsso.fr/demo/
>>>
>>> If you explore this page with a tool such as inspect32.exe (free
>>> Microsoft tool), you can see that the content window has 6 childs.
>>> The first 5 childs are <BR> objects.
>>> The 6th is a form object. Inspect32 succeeds getting this object
>>> because it uses accNavigate method.
>>>
>>> I would like to get this object with a simple loop form 1 to 6
>>> invoking the get_accChild() method:
>>> - 1 to 5 returns OK (<BR> objects).
>>> - 6 returns E_INVALID_ARG.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Sylvain
>>>
>>> On 11 jan, 04:06, Alexander Surkov <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi, Sylvain.
>>>>
>>>> I could suppose beta 6 and beta 8 expose different accessible trees
>>>> making your code fail. As David said we need a test case to see what
>>>> happens. I don't really think it's trivial as you assumed.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>> Alex.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Sylvain <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>> This code was OK on beta 6, but fails on beta 8 (not tested on beta
>>>>> 7). This code simply tries to get the first child of an object:
>>>>
>>>>> hr=AccessibleObjectFromWindow(w,(DWORD)OBJID_CLIENT,IID_IAccessible,
>>>>> (void**)&pTopAccessible);
>>>>> hr=pTopAccessible->accNavigate(0x1009,vtStart,&vtResult); //
>>>>> NAVRELATION_EMBEDS = 0x1009
>>>>> pIDispatch=(IDispatch*)vtResult.lVal;
>>>>> hr=pIDispatch->QueryInterface(IID_IAccessible, (void**)&pAccessible);
>>>>> hr=pAccessible->get_accChildCount(&lCount);
>>>>> //  ==> value of lCount is 6 in my example
>>>>> vtChild.vt=VT_I4;
>>>>> vtChild.lVal=1;
>>>>> hr=pAccessible->get_accChild(vtChild,&pIDispatch); => hr=S_OK
>>>>> ...
>>>>> vtChild.lVal=6;
>>>>> hr=pAccessible->get_accChild(vtChild,&pIDispatch); => hr=E_INVALIDARG!
>>>>
>>>>> Do you have an idea? Not sure, but I guess there is a bug in the
>>>>> Firefox code: I suppose there is a test like this in the
>>>>> get_accChild() method:
>>>>> if (vtChild.lVal >= lCount) return E_INVALIDARG; // where lCount is
>>>>> the number of childs.
>>>>> As the childs are 1 based and not 0 based, the right code should be:
>>>>> if (vtChild.lVal > lCount) return E_INVALIDARG; // where lCount is the
>>>>> number of childs.
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>> Sylvain
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