Willie Walker wrote: > Hi Alexander: > > I'm going to go under the assumption that you want to know when a window > has reached a steady state so you can compare snapshots of the same > window between separate runs of an application.
That's right. > > I'm not sure there really is an AT-SPI event you can use to detect > steady state since the management of a window's contents is really up to > an application. For example, an application can happily update a > progress bar, update the seconds on a clock, repeatedly show/hide a > button in a window, etc. In my case the contents of the window is static, once it is shown it does not change very much. > There's also the notion of the STATE_BUSY state of an object. You would > be notified of changes to this via state changed events. In my > experiences, however, I don't recall this being something one could rely > upon for the situation I'm assuming you're looking for. I also think it's not going to help much. I have a strong experience with GUI programming with Delphi (Lazarus & FreePascal for Linux) where there is the OnShow event. It is generated when the widget is shown and in most cases its contents are already displayed(drawn). It looks like there isn't such at-spi event. Thanks for the hints. Alexander. _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
