1 What's new in at-spi-1.7.0:
5 All the IDL is now documented with doxygen-compatible docs.
6 Just run 'doxygen oxyfile' in the IDL directory. (This will
7 be automated in a future version).
12 Accessibility::Accessible:getAttributes (name/value pair annotation
14 Accessibility::Accessible:getApplication (retrieves ref to host app)
15 Accessibility::Component:getAlpha (get transparency/opacity value of component)
16 Accessibility::Image:getLocale (get POSIX locale for image and
18 Accessibility::Text:getAttributeValue (retrieve a single named
20 Accessibility::Relation:RELATION_PARENT_WINDOW_OF
21 Accessibility::Role:ROLE_ENTRY, ROLE_CHART, ROLE_CAPTION,
22 ROLE_DOCUMENT_FRAME, ROLE_HEADING, ROLE_PAGE, ROLE_SECTION (New roles
23 for complex docs and forms.)
24 Accessibility::State:STATE_REQUIRED, STATE_TRUNCATED, STATE_ANIMATED,
25 STATE_INVALID_ENTRY, STATE_SUPPORTS_AUTOCOMPLETION,
26 STATE_SELECTABLE_TEXT, STATE_IS_DEFAULT (New states, for complex forms)
27 Accessibility::EventDetails (new, more detailed info marshalled with events)
30 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceName):
31 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceRole):
32 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceApplication):
33 (AccessibleEvent_getSourceDetails):
34 New methods for interrogating/demarshalling
35 event details i.e. source's accessible name, role,
37 (Accessible_getAttributes): New, retrieve annotations/attributes
39 (Accessible_getHostApplication): New, retrieve enclosing Application
40 instance for an object.
41 (AccessibleImage_getImageLocale): New, retrieve Locale info for an
43 (AccessibleComponent_getAlpha): New, retrieve alpha value for
44 an AccessibleComponent (see discussion in idl section above).
47 Some compiler fixes from Kjartan Marass.
48 Some thread-related fixes from Michael Meeks.
49 Don't allow non-preemptive listeners to pre-empt events! (Bill Haneman).
51 What's new in at-spi-1.6.5:
53 * Fixed some discrepancies in event listener deregistration, improves
54 on-the-fly deregistration of event listeners. Fixed some tests.
56 * Fixed brokenness in 'make check.'
58 What's new in at-spi-1.6.4:
60 * Fixed XEVIE detection and configuration on XOrg version 6.8.2.
62 * Added locale 'rw' (Steve Murphy)
64 * Tweaked event-listener-test program.
66 * Leakfixes, from billh and Kjartan Marass.
68 What's new in at-spi-1.6.3:
72 * Added locale 'xh' (Adi Attar)
74 What's new in at-spi-1.6.2:
76 * fixes for problems at logout time (hangs, crashes)
78 * bugfixes for #160862, #152147.
80 * minor enhancements to test login-helper-server-test.
84 What's new in at-spi-1.6.1:
86 * LoginHelper API docs improved.
88 * fixed bug which caused problems if an
89 app which loaded atk-bridge forks, and one fork exits.
92 * New language: Galician (gl), Jesus Bravo Alvarez.
94 * Ansi build fixes (Kjartan Maraas).
96 What's new in at-spi-1.6.0:
100 What's new in at-spi-1.5.4:
102 * Registration failure at SPI_init is now detected and
103 an error code is returned to the caller (bug #147648).
105 * We now use polling as our default for detecting mouse
106 button changes (this was formerly our fallback method);
107 this prevents conflict with Xstroke.
108 [a better long-term fix requires the Xevie extension]
110 * We now register on a per-DISPLAY, but not per-SCREEN, basis.
111 This fixes several issues, see bugs #149962, #136986, #144086.
113 * New languages in configure.in:
119 What's new in at-spi-1.5.3:
121 * New role EMBEDDED (bug #144415).
123 * Added object:bounds-changed event, for detecting when the
124 component bounds of an object have changed onscreen.
128 What's new in at-spi-1.5.2:
130 * Added Accessibility_LoginHelper interface, and
131 LoginHelper GType. Also added client and server tests
132 for this interface. The purpose is to identify services
133 (typically, assistive technologies) which need access to
134 system or device services (keyboard, audio, serial ports,
135 posting windows, etc.) during login or re-login/authentication.
137 * fixed make distcheck.
139 * Added a check in cspi_object_unref, which should help in detecting
140 refcount bugs in clients (Padraig O'Briain).
143 Walloon (Pablo Saratxaga)
144 Bulgarian (Alexander Shopov)
146 What's new in at-spi-1.5.1:
148 * Allow synthesis of keysyms that aren't in the current X keymap.
150 * languages: Gujarati (Guntupalli Karunakar), Canadian English
153 * Added omitted declarations for already-existing methods
154 AccessibleTable_addRowSelection(),
155 AccessibleTable_addColumnSelection(),
156 AccessibleTable_removeRowSelection(),
157 AccessibleTable_removeColumnSelection().
159 * bug fixes: 136660, 120659 (partial), 132237, 134332.
163 What's new in at-spi-1.4.0: [GNOME 2.6.0 release]
165 * build improvements from Laszlo Peter.
166 * en_GB added to ALL_LINGUAS.
170 What's new in at-spi-1.3.16: [GNOME 2.6 RC1 release]
172 * Fix for bug #134036, which could steal keystrokes from applications
173 if at-spi registry failed.
175 * Build fixes, added .pc.in files (from Laszlo Peter).
179 This is the gnome-2.6 beta release of at-spi.
180 What's new in at-spi-1.3.15:
183 Amanpreet Singh Alam (pa)
187 What's new in at-spi-1.3.14:
189 * reduced debug output in normal usage. Don't PRIT_LEAKS
190 unless DEBUG_OBJECTS is #defined. Reduces SEGVs when reporting
191 on noncritical refcount issues.
193 What's new in at-spi-1.3.13:
195 * Build improvements: Requires automake-1.7, and calls GTK_DOC_CHECK.
196 (Padraig O'Briain, Matthias Clasen, some from Tomas Kloczko)
198 * bugfixes (bad g_free, and a null string issue that caused SEGV on
199 Solaris when running sample programs).
202 What's new in at-spi-1.3.11:
204 * Fix for docs bug #129728 (Sebastien Bacher).
206 * Fix for bug #129479, allows distinction between
207 multiple DISPLAY instances of at-spi registry.
209 * Fix for #124837, which could cause 'hang' interactions
210 between desktop and clients such as gnopernicus.
212 * Fixes for NUMLOCK mask behavior, bug #129103.
214 * Greatly improved key synthesis for non-Latin characters.
215 We can now synthesize any KeySym which is defined in the current
216 X keymap. (bug #128824). Thanks to Marcus G Kuhn for
217 the public-domain code borrowed here.
222 fa (Roozber Pournader),
224 id (Ahmad Riza H Nst)
227 What's new in at-spi-1.3.9:
229 * New api: AccessibleApplication_getLocale (app, type),
230 returns a POSIX locale string for a locale category,
231 for instance Accessibility_LOCALE_TYPE_MESSAGES.
233 * New SPI_ROLE_EDITBAR.
235 * New Accessible_getLocalizedRoleName.
237 * New AccessibleText_getDefaultAttributes.
239 * fixes to AccessibleStreamableContent, including a 'seek'
240 implementation for cspi. Thanks to Michael Meeks for some
241 related bugfixes in StreamableContent.
243 * now we emit key-released events to appropriate keylisteners.
245 * new LINGUAS in configure.in: nn (Asmund Sjeveland), lt (Gediminas Paulauskas),
246 no (Kjartan Masass), eu (Christian Rose).
248 * bugfixes for: #120991, #120473, #118581, #127463, #116009, #114926,
249 #125834, #111429, #121974.
251 What's new in at-spi-1.3.7:
253 This is the official GNOME 2.4.0 release of at-spi.
255 * fixed event-name bug, "object:active-descendant" is now
256 "object:active-descendant-changed".
258 * fixes for 120220, 120725, some code cleanups.
260 * Improved code that rejects
261 spurious "window:activate/deactivate" pairs when X key grabs occur.
264 * Documentation improvements for SpiAccessibleKeyListenerCB and related.
266 * new languages: hi, fi, et, mn, nl, is, ja, ro, bn.
269 What's new in at-spi-1.3.6:
271 * Add XEvIE support for those systems which have XEvIE.
273 * Correct values for MODIFIER_SHIFTLOCK and MODIFIER_ALT as part of fix
276 * Store event so that it can subsequently be referred to. Fixes bugs
279 * Add support for AccessibleAction on hyperlink object.
281 * Defer focus: events to reduce number of window switch events reported.
282 This a partial fix for bug #108664.
284 * Eliminate warning messages reported when out-of-process applet starts.
287 * Register out-of-process applet as application only while it has top level
288 window displayed. This fixes bug #111578.
290 * Add translations: Simplified Chinese [Yi Yang], Azerbaijani [Metin Amiroff],
291 Icelandic [Richard Allen], Italian [Alessio Frusciante],
292 Korean [Changwoo Ryu], Danish [Ole Alursen], Albanian [Lauent Dhima],
293 Malay [Hasbullah Bin Pit], Vietnamese [Pablo Saratxaga],
294 Belarusian [Belarusian team <i18n@mova.org>],
295 Russian [Russian team <gnome-cyr@gnome.org>], Portuguese [Duarte Loreto],
296 Slovak [Marcel Telka], Serbian [Serbian team (Prevod.org)]
297 Esperanto [Charles Voelger], Brazilian [Gustavo Noronha Silva],
298 Welsh [Dafydd Harries], Dutch [Vincent van Adrighem],
299 Spanish [Pablo Gonzalo del Campo], Polish [Artur Flinta],
300 Catalan [Jordi Mallach], French [Chistophe Marlet],
301 Hebrew [Gil "Dolfin" Osher], German [Christian Neumair],
302 Czech [Miloslav Trmac], Swedish [Christian Rose]
304 What's new in at-spi-1.3.4:
306 * require atk 1.3.4 throughout.
308 * Fix for crasher bug in cspi, exceptions were not being properly
311 * added cspi_peek_ev()
313 * added SPI_ROLE_AUTOCOMPLETE, SPI_STATE_INDETERMINATE (for
314 checkboxes in the 'inconsistent' state)
316 * initial wrapper implementations for AccessibleStreamableContent.
319 * implement "string" synthesis type in SPI_generateKeyEvent.
321 * Added cspi client-side APIs for exception handling.
323 * bugfixes for #114370, #113268, #108664, #92143,
325 What's new in at-spi-1.3.2:
329 What's new in at-spi-1.3.1:
331 * Fixes for 109626, 89350, 100424, 100426, 110419, 107261, 107479,
332 108666, 104730, 111793.
336 * gnome-2-2 branch created.
338 What's new in at-spi-1.1.9:
340 * Fixes for 107985, 107988, 105291, 107256, 107254, 105836,
341 104622, 105291, 104744, 104741, 101524, 102830, 98120, 94275.
343 * added support for mouse buttons 4 and 5.
345 * compiler warning fixes.
347 What's new in at-spi-1.1.8:
349 * Added getRangeExtents() and getBoundedRanges() API for more
350 efficient screen review [100944].
352 What's new in at-spi-1.1.7:
354 * Added spi_keymask values for Mod4 and Mod5.
355 * Performance improvements and bugfixes from Michael.
357 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
359 * Fixes for #99799, #10530.
361 * New methods in cspi:
362 'AccessibleEvent_ref' and 'AccessibleEvent_unref'
363 to allow lifecycle management of AccessibleEvents outside of
364 the emission handler.
366 What's new in at-spi-1.1.6:
368 * event struct in libspi is bigger, increased unimplemented
369 slot count for sufficient future bincompatible expansion.
370 (WARNING: breaks bincompat for direct CORBA clients. CSPI clients
373 * New accessor methods allow state-coherent query of many
376 * API Frozen for GNOME 2.2.
378 * New role types: APPLICATION, HEADER, FOOTER, PARAGRAPH, RULER.
380 * New relations, FLOWS_FROM, FLOWS_TO, EMBEDS, EMBEDDED_BY,
383 * New state, MANAGES_DESCENDANTS. New event, "active-descendant-changed".
385 * reduced debug output, unless you set AT_SPI_DEBUG environment
386 variable to string which parses to an integer value > 0.
388 * added definitions for SPI_KEYMASK_BUTTON1, etc.
390 * added SPI_LAYER_WINDOW.
392 * Added ability to register 'device event listeners' which can
393 consume device events, such as mouse events.
395 * Added support for mouse and key-modifier event notification.
397 * deprecated KeyEventType in favor of EventType.
399 * bugfixes for >50 bugs including: 98836, 98842, 97916, 95828,
400 93592, 95940, 95517, 93658, 95055, 94555, 84856.
402 * updated copyrights to include Ximian.
404 What's new in at-spi-1.1.0:
406 * event listener notifications are no longer oneways.
407 * bugfixes for 84900, 84908, 84897, 84898.
408 * performance improvement for event listeners.
410 What's new in at-spi-1.0.1:
414 What's new in at-spi-1.0.0:
416 * API Freeze (1.0 API is now FINAL)
417 * added boolean return for
418 Accessibility_Registry_registerKeystrokeListener.
419 * Revved activation ID for registry to "1.0"
420 * many bugfixes and improvements to global key listener implementation.
421 * improvements to regression test "test-simple", added key
422 listener/synthesis test.
423 * added sample code in "test" to demonstrate how flat line-mode
424 screen-review can be implemented with at-spi.
426 What's new in at-spi-0.13.1:
428 (note: 0.13.1 is not binary compatible with 0.12.1, clients will need
431 * fix for bugzilla bug 80616
432 * IDL change which will affect direct CORBA users of the keystroke
434 * added a new test harness, event-listener-test, which also
435 has a simple tree traversal timing benchmark. event-listener-test
436 attaches listeners to all currently supported events (and a few
437 events which are not fully implemented yet); it thus serves
438 as useful event listener sample code as well as being a diagnostic
441 What's new in at-spi-0.12.1:
443 * fixes for bugzilla bugs 78249,68929,76615,71686,72300,78247,72300,78249
444 relating to build issues on some architectures (some of these were
445 fixed in 0.10 but additional fixes were included in 0.12.1).
446 * added new test program for our key listener API.
447 * added implementation of IDL 'exit' method to our
448 magnifier and mag_control client.
449 * Badly broken AccessibleStateSet implementation fixed by
451 * Added implementation for AccessibleComponent_grabFocus method.
452 * Improvements to documentation.
456 * Added missing seek_type param in
457 AccessibleStreamableContent_seek [78888],
458 previously documented but not in signature;
459 this was unused API but needed fixing for the future.
461 * Added API for AccessibleTable_selectRow and _selectColumn,
462 corresponding to similar API in ATK, and provided
463 implementation. [76201]
465 * Added boolean return types to a number of IDL methods whose
466 corresponding cspi wrappers and ATK methods already had boolean
469 * Made Accessibility_StateSet inherit from BonoboUnknown as it should;
470 this was the main existing breakage in StateSet.
478 getStateName () and STATE_EXTENDED to allow extension of State API (already
481 AccessibleAction_getType () and AccessibleAction_getTypeName ().
483 need getBaseAttributes ()
484 for AccessibleText (available in ATK I think).
486 table: getVisibleRange
488 state: HEADER, etc. for spreadsheet cells