PROBLEM STATEMENT

The AtkSelection interface's selectChild method may be called from an accessible to select a child of that accessible.  The problem is that the WinForms behavior is different than Gtk's behavior, if the intent is to select a menu item of a combo box.  In Gtk, the selectChild method is called from the "combo box" accessible object and in WinForms the selectChild method is called from the "menu" accessible object.  In both cases, the accessible hierarchy looks like this (for a combo box that has 3 items):

 combo box
     ---> menu
            ----> menu item
            ----> menu item
            ----> menu item

REPRO

GTK
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1.  Run Accerciser and open the "IPython Console" tab
2.  Run uia2atk/test/samples/gtkcombobox.py
3.  In Accerciser's left pane, browse to and select the "menu" accessible
4.  In Accerciser's IPython console, type 'acc.querySelection().selectChild(2)' and press Enter.  Notice that nothing happens, the method call just returns "True".
5.  In Accerciser's left pane, browse to and select the "combo box" accessible
6.  In Accerciser's IPython console, type 'acc.querySelection().selectChild(2)' and press Enter.

WINFORMS
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1.  Run Accerciser and open the "IPython Console" tab
2.  Run uia2atk/test/samples/combobox_dropdownlist.py
3.  In Accerciser's left pane, browse to and select the "combo box" accessible
4.  In Accerciser's IPython console, type 'acc.querySelection().selectChild(2)' and press Enter.  Notice that nothing happens, the method call just returns "True".
5.  In Accerciser's left pane, browse to and select the "menu" accessible
6.  In Accerciser's IPython console, type 'acc.querySelection().selectChild(2)' and press Enter.


RESULTS

GTK
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"Cherry" appears in the ComboBox of the gtkcombobox.py GUI

WINFORMS
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"2" appears in the ComboBox of the combobox_dropdownlist.py GUI

EXPECTED RESULTS

I would expect the WinForms behavior to match the Gtk behavior.

COMMENTS

I am assuming the Gtk behavior isn't correct here, but I suppose that isn't necessarily the case.