Re: Archiving or copying observers and elements
Re: Archiving or copying observers and elements
- Subject: Re: Archiving or copying observers and elements
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 05:24:48 -0500
on 02-12-12 8:33 PM, Mike Engber at email@hidden wrote:
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I'm just now realizing the confusion being caused by the fact that
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Carbon uses AXUIElementRefs in its accessorization API (i.e. what
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target apps have to do to work with the Accessibility API). A Cocoa
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developer would never ask this question because as a target app he
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hands out only NSObjects and requests are processed by sending messages
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to these objects.
There are lots of confusions lurking in these APIs. The one that caused me
the most trouble at the beginning is the fact that the "assistive" API is
called "AXAccessibility.h", while in Cocoa the "accessibility" API is called
"NSAccessibility.h".
But after a few weeks of working with these APIs, the concepts seem
comfortable to me. I think it's just a matter of writing a good "overview"
section for the final documentation. Harvesting some of the material on this
list for that document will be helpful to future developers.
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