I'm pretty sure the source code for the GW Java stuff is available for download either at their scripts central page or somewhere nearby. On Aug 28, 2009, at 7:21 AM, Donal Fitzpatrick wrote:
> Hi there, > > at the risk of taking this off topic (and I'm not sure I'm doing so) > is the GWJava stuff open-source? It would be very interesting > indeed to see how they're doing the communication with the virtual > machine. I'm just thinking that it might make a nice final year > undergraduate project to port across to OSX. If you'd like to > contact me off-list on this one that would be perfectly fine. > > Dónal > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected] > ] On Behalf Of Chris Hofstader > Sent: 28 August 2009 12:15 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: why is openoffice accessible and neoofficeenot > > I've heard from friends at Sun, the people who brought you the Java > Access Bridge for Windows and GNU/Linux platforms that there has > been a Macintosh version in the works. > > Since then, though, two major events have changed the landscape: > > 1. Sun has been acquired by Oracle, a company who, at best, has > been lukewarm to accessibility and the Sun powerhouse accessibility > team may be starved of funds as Oracle doesn't seem to see it as > terribly important. > > 2. The fellow who, as a volunteer, wrote the newish Window-Eyes > Java support code using the very cool GW scripting facility, did so > by ignoring the Access Bridge and communicating with the Java VM > directly. the GW scripts are profoundly faster than those in JAWS > and they include more information in a much more well organized > manner. Also, the GW Java is much more stable as the bridge > introduced an entire layer of flaky code. > > I don't know anything about how Macintosh programs communicate with > each other but, following the GW lead, I would assume one could > build a solution based on the WE scripts as the part that talks to > the VM is going to be very similar if not identical. > > Happy Hacking, > cdh > > On Aug 27, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > >> Hmm, in the windows world, there was a java access bridge that >> interfaced between Windows accessibility and Java Swing. Is there >> anything like that for the Mac? I wonder how hard it would be to >> port. (I am not a good enough programmer to do this right now.) >> >> Jon >> >> On Aug 27, 2009, at 3:20 PM, Chris Blouch wrote: >> >>> From poking around it would appear that NeoOffice uses Java swing >>> for the user interface and I suspect the Java swing to apple >>> accessibility API connections are either not wired up or non- >>> existant. I just downloaded NeoOffice and isntalled patch 7 and it >>> was still inaccessible. It defaulted to opening up a text >>> processor document and nothing I typed was read back to me. >>> >>> CB >>> >>> a radix wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, I wonder, why is neooffice not accessible? I thought it >>>> was a fork of openoffice and even a fork made more for the mac >>>> then openoffice. Should it not then be more accesible? >>>> Greetings, Anouk, >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
