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Re: Parents & children not consistent
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Re: Parents & children not consistent


  • Subject: Re: Parents & children not consistent
  • From: Mike Engber <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:42:31 -0800

I thought I was on this mailing list before and now I can see there's a lot of traffic I missed (I thought it was just a very quiet list). Anyway, I hope I successfully registered for it this time...

Let me introduce myself, I'm Mike Engber and I work in the Cocoa group. Here's a sampling of what you can blame me for:

- What Cocoa returns via the Accessibility APIs. Note that sometimes Cocoa really passes the buck to Carbon and blindly hands back whatever Carbon says (e.g. for Menus)

- What you need to do in order to make your Cocoa app accessible (e.g. get your custom widgets working with accessibility)

- A large part of the design of the Accessibility APIs themselves.

- The current economic downturn.

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So, I apologize again for not being on this list earlier and possibly answering some past q's.
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As to the topic at hand. If a child lists a UI element as its parent then the parent should have that UI element in its children attribute.

If you've found to the contrary, please file a bug if you haven't already. I can't really speak to what's going on in the case of menus, it sounds like a bug.

I can say that in the Cocoa world we rely on this symmetry. If you create some widget and violate this - you can really mess things up. One way I've seen this happen

-ME
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