Re: Comments on GTK+ patches from Atk tarball
- From: Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>
- To: gtk-devel-list gnome org, otaylor redhat com
- Subject: Re: Comments on GTK+ patches from Atk tarball
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 12:59:08 +0100 (BST)
Hi Folks:
I have been thinking about Owen's observation regarding class
initialization overhead.
I do not see a good way around our need for multiple factories,
associated with widget classes. (Note that we expect perhaps 30-40
AtkAccessibleFactory instances to provide coverage for the whole GTK+
widget set, so there will not be one AtkAccessibleFactory per widget
class since some classes can inherit their factory instance, and some
widget classes that are not direct descendants may nonetheless share a
factory).
However we may be able to implement our multiple factory model in a way
that doesn't force widget class initialization for each widget class
which is associated with a particular AtkAccessibleFactory.
Probably this would require some kind of registry which stores
AtkAccessibleFactory instances keyed on GtkWidget class names. Then
either
(1) the registry would be used whenever the factory create_accessible
method is needed, by doing a classname lookup (instead of having an
accessible_factory pointer in the GtkWidget class struct), or
(2) the accessible_factory pointer would be initialized only when a
widget's class initialization code is called.
(1) would be perhaps simpler but less efficient,
(2) would be ideal but I'm not sure how we could implement it. Remember
that we don't want to hard-code the accessible factory associations
inside GTK+, they should happen when the accessibility support module is
loaded, and they need to be runtime-changeable.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Bill
>> * The overhead of initializing every class in GTK+ is quite
>> large and we intentionally delay initialization until an
>> instance of the class is created. So, I don't think
>>
>> gtk_widget_class_set_accessibility_factory()
>>
>> is a good idea; better to have a global factory.
>
>There isn't a global factory, there are many factories. Different
>factory instances must be associated with different classes, and
>changeable at runtime, thus the method above is required.
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Bill Haneman x19279
Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
Sun Microsystems Ireland
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