Re: FocusedUIElement notification for menus and menu items
Re: FocusedUIElement notification for menus and menu items
- Subject: Re: FocusedUIElement notification for menus and menu items
- From: John Louch <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 10:44:43 -0800
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At 11:36 -0800 27/10/03, Eric Schlegel wrote:
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> In Mac OS X 10.2 and 10.3, the Menu Manager sends an
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> AXFocusedUIElementChanged notification as the user moves the mouse
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> from one menu item to another.
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> It has been suggested to me that a more appropriate/consistent use
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> of the focused UI element concept for menus would be for the menu
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> itself to be the focused element, and that therefore, the Menu
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> Manager should only send this notification when the selected menu
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> changes, and not when the selected menu item changes.
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> I'd like to know if any accessibility client apps are currently
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> using this notification in the context of menu selections, and would
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> be affected by this change. You can either respond to the list or
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> respond to me privately.
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I have not needed the notification mechanisms yet so please correct
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me if I make a stupid remark, but I would say that even if the
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current method may be theoretically less correct (though that depends
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on how you define the "focus" concept) it would seem to me that it is
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more powerful then if there would be only notifications if the menu
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itself changes. I mean, in the current situation it should be
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relatively easy for the accessibility app to figure out after a
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notification for a menu item focus change that the item belongs to
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the same menu so that the "focused" menu has not really changed. In
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the alternative situation knowing that the "focused" menu changes is
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easier, but there will no longer be a way to get notified if the
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"focused" menu item changed. That would seem like a set back to me.
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But, again please correct me if I merely misunderstand the issue.
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david.
There already is a notification when selected item changed. This is what
you should use to determine the selected item of a menu.
Thanks,
jl
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