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RE: [platform-swt-dev] Cocoa accessibility checked in
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Title: Cocoa accessibility checked in
Scot:
I
understand what you mean when you say a pain in the behind.... however consider
that the work of yourself and others has allowed a former commercial diver,
millwright, welder , machinist to lose his entire eye sight literally overnight
and then to be back in full time community college learning the fine art of
programming.
It's
accessibility of programs, IDE's etc that afford me and many others the level
playing field that we have been seeking, hats off to you and your
kin.
Jim
Folks,
I just committed the accessibility work
for Cocoa. Accessibility is an enormous pain in the behind. There, I’ve said
it. :-)
Here’s what I know is working:
-- Properties for all SWT
widgets reporting as expected, and matching up with Carbon as best as I could
determine.
-- Properties for custom widgets (CTabFolder, CLabel and CCombo)
reporting what Carbon reports.
-- Voiceover reporting back correct values
for just about everything.
Voiceover is not working for StyledText. Any
assistance in figuring out what could be wrong here would be greatly
appreciated.
One change of note I made was to os.h. We were re-throwing
Objective-C exceptions back out of the JNI methods in OS_NATIVE_EXIT, which is
guaranteed to crash the Java VM. Instead, I now use NSLog to dump out the
description of the exception so you can actually see what’s going
on.
One (potentially controversial) change I made to Display was to put
try/catch blocks in readAndDispatch() and sleep() so that an exception doesn’t
silently exit the program. The semantics of these methods didn’t change, but
dumping a backtrace is more useful than exiting.
A lot of widget
implementations changed to add accessibility overrides. There are a lot of
places where an NSView is used as a grouping mechanism for subviews, and those
require some extra work to note them as ignored, but it’s not that invasive.
One bug fix in Text where some methods didn’t check for SWT.MULTI,
which gave a ClassCastException when trying to fetch the values. Also fixed an
incorrect check when determining which control is focused.
I’m working
at home tomorrow, and I have been asked to look into some things for Thermo
before our public alpha, so as soon as I get that out of the way I will start
living in the nightly builds.
Scott
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Scott
Kovatch
Flex Engineering
Adobe Systems, Inc.
skovatch@xxxxxxxxx
I am Scott Kovatch,
and I approved this message.