Hello. I'm trying to find a clean way of using ATK to encode the state of an application which doesn't rely on any toolkit -- actually a Compiz plugin.
The application does its own graphic rendering, so it's not desirable to introduce a GTK dependency. For the current time the application state to provide the accessibility subsystem with is as simple as it gets: just one text label, whose value changes under the control of the application. I've played with ATK but I'm sure there's something I don't get. The most comprehensible examples I've found are in the atk testsuite, but those are obviously intended as unit tests, and running them has no influence on the state of AT-SPI. Shall I call the atk-atspi bridge directly? Shall I initialize it somehow? [1] recommends the Gail source as an example of advanced ATK use, but the thing is still tightly coupled with GTK. Speaking of AT-SPI, I've also thought of avoiding the problem altogether by just linking to libatspi; some people on the net say it's only meant for accessibility "clients" while I clearly need a server; the API would seem to reflect that, but others [2] say that ATK and AT-SPI are more or less functionally equivalent, citing the Java Accessibility Framework (which as far as I understand has been recently abandoned [3]) as an example of skipping ATK. It's disheartening that every "server" example is so intertwined with huge toolkit implementations. Making a factory for an AtkText subclass is clearly not enough. I'd already be happy with the simplest C program with an element showing up in accerciser. I have a kludge using GTK which more or less works, but this really calls for a good solution. Would you have any suggestion for my case? Thanks, [1] https://developer.gnome.org/accessibility-devel-guide/stable/dev-start-5.html.en [2] https://accessibility.kde.org/developer/atk.php [3] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8067481 -- Luca Saiu HYPRA -- Progressons ensemble : http://hypra.fr _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
