Re: Can GOK work with autocompletion?

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi David,

Hmmm... I wonder about using the AccessibleAction interface for this, 
with a naming convention we might all follow for the .  Something like:

"auto-complete:<string>"

as the action name, where "<string>" is the actual auto-complete text 
that would be inserted (and thus displayed on the GOK key).  Then the 
tooltip-like window that appears with the auto-complete options would 
implement the ATK_Action interface. 

This is more heavy-weight than having a special role for the 
tooltip-like window with text to be extracted, but it is also less 
constraining of the user interface implementation that programmers render.


Peter Korn
Accessibility Architect,
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> Hi guys. Technically I'm on holiday today.  I think we could choose an existing
> event (or propose a new one) for notification regarding this... and GOK could
> create a key representing the current app-autocompletion.
>
> Nice idea guys!
>
> cheers,
> D
> Quoting Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>:
>
>   
> > Hi Evan,
> >
> > This is an interesting idea - having GOK work with auto-completion!  GOK 
> > has its own work completion algorithm, but that by its nature cannot 
> > have application-specific knowledge, and so generally won't do as good a 
> > job.
> >
> > The question is, how should GOK show such application-specific word 
> > completion, and how do we communicate that between the application and 
> > GOK via AT-SPI.  Evan, David - any thoughts?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Peter Korn
> > Accessibility Architect,
> > Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> >     
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm now working on a mozilla a11y bug, about autocompletion. The URL of
> > > the bug is
> > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338242
> > >
> > > I'm not sure whether GOK can work with autocompletion.
> > > When I input something used before into a textbox, the autocompletion
> > > will pop up, could GOK update to show the autocompletion items?
> > > I also tried that in Evolution. When writing a email, inputing a mail
> > > address which have been in the contact list, the autocompletion pop up,
> > > GOK also can't work with it.
> > >
> > > Is that a GOK bug?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Evan
> > >
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