[Accessibility-ia2] accessibleWithCaret - caretOffset

Malte Timmermann malte_timmermann at gmx.com
Wed Sep 7 06:53:33 PDT 2011


Magic value sounds strange to me, especially that it would make the OUT 
param an INOUT param.

IA2 is intended to be in process, so I don't think the extra call is a 
problem. The AT will make many other calls anyway, like getting text 
attributes, object pos/size and other stuff.

Malte.

On 07.09.2011 05:18, Alexander Surkov wrote:
> Hi, Pete. The reason is to save an extra call. From my understanding
> AT wants to know the caret offset within deepest accessible having a
> caret. This doesn't add complexity to server implementation (as you
> said all it's needed is to query text interface and call caretOffset).
> We could introduce magic value for caret offset argument to specify
> that the server shouldn't calculate it.
>
> Thank you.
> Alex.
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Pete Brunet<pete at a11ysoft.com>  wrote:
>> Alex, Why does accessibleWithCaret have an [out] caretOffset?  The user can
>> QI to IAText and use IAText::offset.  I propose not adding that redundancy
>> (and thus extra code for the app developers).  -Pete
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