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

Alexander Surkov <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Jan 2011 15:56:26 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.accessibility
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I filed bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=624648. Thank you.

Alex.


On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Alexander Surkov
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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