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?
Yes, that sounds like what I need - do you know a way to do it?
In an Accessibility Technology Context it would we especially nice if
one could receive events containing the caret rectangle coordinates as a
disabled user often need to have the helperwindow move according to the
caret position - note however that this should already be part of the
accessibility API!?
As I mentioned earlier I had hoped the CARET_CHANGED event from the
XAccessibleEventListener interface and the XAccessibleEventBroadcasters
was what I needed, but still no luck ;-(
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?
The initial post described my troubles with the Accessiblity API ;-(
As we are currently reviewing our toolkit related APIs this is a
valuable input for out future plans also.
Sounds interesting. Can you tell more about the future plans?
Best regards
/W
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