Re: AT-SPI standard's management of text objects

[Samuel Thibault <samuel thibault ens-lyon org>]

Samuel Thibault, on Sun 20 Nov 2016 18:35:41 +0100, wrote:
> Ksamak, on Wed 16 Nov 2016 09:32:20 +0100, wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 07:49:00PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > Ksamak, on Tue 15 Nov 2016 16:52:51 +0100, wrote:
> > > > When caret is on a newline, it is quite hard to get the
> > > > screen position of the newline caret, The function atspi_text_get_character_extents
> > > > is of no help, and returns 0,0 as coordinates when such offset is
> > > > provided.
> > >
> > > This looks like a bug to me.
>
> Could you provide a specific example how to reproduce the issue?
>
> > > > Another similar problem is when a text is empty, thereby no text
> > > > offset is present.
>
> Ditto?

(I believe it's probably just a behavior of pango which shows up here,
not anything really wanted by AT-SPI.  I however don't know how to
reproduce the issue you are encountering).

Samuel