Re: GNOME shell magnifier does not track Java UI events

[Alejandro Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

On 12/04/17 18:57, Alex ARNAUD wrote:
> Le 12/04/2017 à 17:06, Cancrinus, Bas(AWF) a écrit :
> > Can anybody on the list please confirm whether AWT/Swing event
> > handling through the Java ATK Wrapper is currently supported by the
> > GNOME shell magnifier?
>
> Oh, I understand your confusion.

What confusion? Bas question was valid. Because as you are saying below ...

> You could find the code source that here :
> https://github.com/GNOME/gnome-shell/blob/master/js/ui/focusCaretTracker.js
>
> It doesn't consider AWT/Swing as different as Gedit for example.

GNOME  Shell focus tracking doesn't handle AWT/Swing events. GNOME Shell
focus tracking are based on listening at-spi2 events. So on the case of
Java, the ATK wrapper would need to forward any relevant Java
accessibility event in order to work with GNOME Shell.

BR