The spec for IAccessibleEditableText::pasteText(offset) says:
"Pastes text from the clipboard. The text in the system clipboard is
pasted into the text represented by this object at the given index. ...".
I notice that the word "text" appears to be used very specifically.
So, since the contents of the clipboard can be in multiple formats at once
(plain text, RTF, HTML, etc), does the specific use of the word "text"
mean that "plain text" format is to be used?
It actually seems that the spec should probably really be:
IAccessibleEditableText::pasteText(offset, format) to allow for different
clipboard formats.
This would allow AT to simulate the typical "Paste Special..." menu item,
where the user chooses the desired clipboard format to paste.
Note that Edit->Paste (Ctrl+V) lets the application choose which format to
paste when there are multiple formats on the clipboard.
And most applications will NOT choose "plain text" by default. Typically,
they choose more complicated formats, like RTF, that contain attribute
information.
So IAccessibleEditableText::pasteText may seem (to the user) to do
something quite random by choosing to only paste plain text.
It would seem error-prone to expect the AT to parse out the attribute
information from the clipboard's RTF content and use
IAccessibleEditableText::setAttributes after pasteText.
What format is currently expected for
IAccessibleEditableText::pasteText(offset) ?
Carolyn
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