>IA2 doesn't provide method to select single cell

Alex, Would MSAA's accSelect work?

-Pete

Alexander Surkov wrote:
> So, Pete. I mean there is no GUI to select row as it defined by IA2
> (i.e. select this row and unselect others), but every row can be
> selected by cells and unselected by cells. If AT needs shortcut for
> this (note IA2 doesn't provide method to select single cell) then I
> think it's worth to implement it.
>
> Conflict is if we will treat selectRow as the following. We should
> select every cell in the row and unselect every cell in other rows.
> Since one and the same cell can be shared between two different rows
> then this is conflict. I mean what should we do? Should we select or
> should we unselect that cell? (I think the formal case which is select
> and then unselect it doesn't make sense.) IA2 should provide
> documentation where meaning of the method can't be treated by
> different ways.
>
> Alex.
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Pete Brunet<[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Alex, If you can't select rows or columns from the GUI what do you think
>> about just returning E_NOTIMPL for those methods?
>>
>>     
>>> Also I think nether method documentation nor implementation should be self
>>> conflicting.
>>>       
>> I agree, but did you have an example in mind where the documentation and
>> implementation would conflict?
>>
>> Pete
>>
>> Alexander Surkov wrote:
>>
>> To Andres: Afaik HTML table is unique example of multiselectable table
>> in Firefox where row or column spans are applicable and there is no
>> GUI to select row or column of the HTML table. You can select cells
>> (ctrl + click on the cell) one by one or cells all together (ctrl +
>> click on the table border). So I don't know how I should implement
>> selectRow/Column methods for Firefox's HTML tables. Also I think
>> nether method documentation nor implementation should be self
>> conflicting.
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 11:26 AM, Pete Brunet<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> There is different (and probably buggy) behavior if you compare the
>> behavior of multiple cell selection in Symphony and OOo, so the methods
>> should report what happens in the GUI, even mimicking buggy behavior.  -Pete
>>
>>
>> Andres Gonzalez wrote:
>>
>>
>> Alex: what about if these methods mimic what the user can do via the GUI
>> when selecting a row or column. It would be app-dependent.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --Andres.
>>
>>
>> --Andres.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]]
>> On Behalf Of Alexander Surkov
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:22 PM
>> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Accessibility-ia2]
>> IAccessible::(un)selectRow/Column method implementation
>>
>> Though if we won't select not origin cell then selectRow/Column won't
>> select row or column entirely in some cases and isRow/ColumnSelected
>> will return false. I'm not sure how is it correct. Opinions?
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Alexander
>> Surkov<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi. IA2 doc doesn't address situation when row or column spans are
>> presented in a table. So let we have an example,
>>
>> <table>
>>  <tr>
>>    <td>cell1</td>
>>    <td rowspan="1">cell2</td>
>>  </tr>
>>  <tr>
>>    <td>cell3</td>
>>  </tr>
>> </table>
>>
>> visually this table is presented like
>>
>> |---------|---------|
>> | cell1 | cell2  |
>> |---------|         |
>> | cell3 |         |
>> |---------|---------|
>>
>> If I select second row then we should select "cell3".
>>
>>
>>
>> Should we select
>>
>>
>>
>> spanned "cell2" as well? On the one hand it looks reasonable because
>> when I want to select row then I want to see all cells in the row
>> selected. On another hand I would say no because we should unselect
>> first row per documentation and therefore we should uselect "cell1"
>> and "cell2", i.e. "cell2" remains unselected. So should we add words
>> into documentation (un)selectRow/Column deals with origin cells only
>> (i.e. cells those aren't result of row or column spans)?
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>>
>>
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