Bugzilla – Bug 506159
DateTimePicker spin button accessibles erroneously implemented the EditableText interface
Last modified: 2009-05-21 20:58:09 UTC
PROBLEM STATEMENT The DateTimePicker accessible has two spin button children. One of the spin buttons represents the day of the month and the other represents the year. Both of these spin button accessible implemented the EditableText interface, but don't appear to be editable in the sense that you can edit the text. (The text is replaced however when a date is selected on the MonthCalendar that drops down, but I am assuming that requires the EditableText. I could be wrong!) REPRO 1. Run Accerciser, open the "Interface Viewer" tab and expand the "Text (not implemented)" expander 2. Run uia2atk/test/samples/datetimepicker_dropdown.py 3. In Accerciser, browse to and select either of the "spin button" children of the datetimepicker_dropdown.py (ipy) application. 4. Notice that the "Text (not implemented)" text on the interface viewer has changed to "Text (Editable)" 5. Click in the "Text" text area of in Accerciser's interface viewer and edit the value (which can be different depending on which spin button you selected in step 3) to whatever you would like. RESULTS The text value of the spin button on the GUI does not change EXPECTED RESULTS Because the text value of the spin button doesn't change on the GUI, I would expect the EditableText interface to not be implemented at all. COMMENTS This is similar to Bug 468337 The bridge functional spec does specify that spin buttons are editable, but it doesn't seem to make sense in this particular situation. Please, someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Okay, I suspected this might have been the case, but it looks like this has already been addressed by brad in the 5th comment of Bug 471330. It reads in part: "I can't create a Spinner that implements Atk.Action, Atk.Value and Atk.Text but not Atk.EditableText. This is partly a limitation of Atk+/# and partly a limitation of our overall design." So, I will close this as WONTFIX also.