W wrote: > The XExtendedToolkit supports an XFocusListener which should "keep track > of the object that currently has the input focus.", but it does not seem > to track the keyboard input focus (e.g. you do not get focus events when > changing between two Writer windows).
(...) > I like your honest opinion and I could not agree more. If I could just > add a top-level (global :-)) listener which could inform me of the > active window then I would be more than happy to add a second listener > to that window. So something like a notification that notifies listeners each time when the focus window changes (by sending an event containing a reference to it) and also sends out notifications if the caret position (or perhaps also the mouse position) in this window has changed? > I am only interested in the keyboard focus and textselections. If the > caret moves (by means of the keyboard, mouse or whatever) I would like > to be able to retrieve the text in which the caret has now been placed, > so that I might be able to help the user doing wordprediction and the > like. That is if the user places the keyboard focus in a Writer document > I would like to be able to find the document and the position of the caret. > > I think I might be able to do some of this using the JAA bridge, but if > it can be done using the JAA bridge one must be able to do it using only > the OpenOffice API as well!? There is an OOo Accessibility API, perhaps it has what you need? > Am I making any sense? Sure. :-) As we are currently reviewing our toolkit related APIs this is a valuable input for out future plans also. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
