GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 100942
Additional text API needed for efficient screen review
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
In order to do efficient screen review, in which an assistive technology attempts to extract text coordinate informatin from the screen and convert it into a 2-D character format, certain new APIs are needed. The existing APIs allow screen review, but require substantial (and often inefficient) client processing. New API needed: atk_text_get_range_extents (AtkText *text, gint start_offset, gint end_offset, gint *x, gint *y, gint *width, gint *height, AtkCoordType *coord_type); atk_text_get_bounded_range (AtkText *text,
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 100943 ***