Re: what is grip unknown?

[Peter Korn <peter korn sun com>]

Hi Owen, guys,

> On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:20, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> 
> > Occasionally in some applications, I'll come across an unknown control 
> > with the field lable "grip."
> 
> A control labelled "grip" is likely a point where part of the user
> interface can be detached from the main window into a separate
> window by dragging with the mouse. I've seldom found a reason
> to do this when using a mouse/visual display. It's probably
> even less useful when using brail/speech.
> 
> So, if it's not manipulatable via gnopernicus, that's likely
> a good thing.

Whether Gnopernicus can manipulate it or not (and whether or not that is in
fact a good thing), we should not report the role of this object as unknown. 
If we are missing a good role, we should create one (and decide whether we can
slip a new role constant "feature" into 2.4 or not); if we have one but it
simply isn't being use by this control, then we should use it.  If we have
those bug Gnopernicus is still claiming it is unknown, then introductions
should be made to this fine upstanding grip control!


Regards,

Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team