Re: Parents & children not consistent
Re: Parents & children not consistent
- Subject: Re: Parents & children not consistent
- From: Eric Schlegel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 07:18:46 -0800
On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 03:40 AM, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
A related question: does the target application have to be frontmost
(active) for the accessibility API to "perform" its menu items?
I believe I have a bug reporting that to be the case.
The problem most likely is that to perform a menu item, we need to fool
the app into calling MenuSelect, and that might not be working in
non-active apps.
Also, I can't see the Apple menu's children menu items when the target
application is in the background.
Has the Apple menu already been displayed at least once when you're
trying to find its children, or did you launch the app in the
background and never look at the Apple menu yet? Please file a bug
about this.
the only other accessibility function I've encountered that doesn't
seem to work
when an application is hidden is the AXUIElementCopyElementAtPosition
-- it
works when the application is in the background, but only if the point
is
visible. I wish I could use that function with hidden windows, too,
but I
suppose there's an inherent limitation of the Mac OS at work here.
Well, you should file a bug there anyways. We can at least investigate
making that work.
-eric
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