- *@ATK_STATE_INVALID: Indicates an invalid state
- *@ATK_STATE_ACTIVE: Indicates a window is currently the active window
- *@ATK_STATE_ARMED: Indicates that the object is armed.
- *@ATK_STATE_BUSY: Indicates the current object is busy. This state may be used by implementors of Document to indicate that content loading is in process.
- *@ATK_STATE_CHECKED: Indicates this object is currently checked
- *@ATK_STATE_DEFUNCT: Indicates the user interface object corresponding to this object no longer exists
- *@ATK_STATE_EDITABLE: Indicates the user can change the contents of this object
- *@ATK_STATE_ENABLED: Indicates that this object is enabled. An inconsistent GtkToggleButton is an example of an object which is sensitive but not enabled.
+ *@ATK_STATE_INVALID: Indicates an invalid state - probably an error condition.
+ *@ATK_STATE_ACTIVE: Indicates a window is currently the active window, or an object is the active subelement within a container or table. ATK_STATE_ACTIVE should not be used for objects which have ATK_STATE_FOCUSABLE or ATK_STATE_SELECTABLE: Those objects should use ATK_STATE_FOCUSED and ATK_STATE_SELECTED respectively. ATK_STATE_ACTIVE is a means to indicate that an object which is not focusable and not selectable is the currently-active item within its parent container.
+ *@ATK_STATE_ARMED: Indicates that the object is 'armed', i.e. will be activated by if a pointer button-release event occurs within its bounds. Buttons often enter this state when a pointer click occurs within their bounds, as a precursor to activation. ATK_STATE_ARMED has been deprecated since ATK-2.16 and should not be used in newly-written code.
+ *@ATK_STATE_BUSY: Indicates the current object is busy, i.e. onscreen representation is in the process of changing, or the object is temporarily unavailable for interaction due to activity already in progress. This state may be used by implementors of Document to indicate that content loading is underway. It also may indicate other 'pending' conditions; clients may wish to interrogate this object when the ATK_STATE_BUSY flag is removed.
+ *@ATK_STATE_CHECKED: Indicates this object is currently checked, for instance a checkbox is 'non-empty'.
+ *@ATK_STATE_DEFUNCT: Indicates that this object no longer has a valid backing widget (for instance, if its peer object has been destroyed)
+ *@ATK_STATE_EDITABLE: Indicates that this object can contain text, and that the
+ * user can change the textual contents of this object by editing those contents
+ * directly. For an object which is expected to be editable due to its type, but
+ * which cannot be edited due to the application or platform preventing the user
+ * from doing so, that object's #AtkStateSet should lack ATK_STATE_EDITABLE and
+ * should contain ATK_STATE_READ_ONLY.
+ *@ATK_STATE_ENABLED: Indicates that this object is enabled, i.e. that it currently reflects some application state. Objects that are "greyed out" may lack this state, and may lack the STATE_SENSITIVE if direct user interaction cannot cause them to acquire STATE_ENABLED. See also: ATK_STATE_SENSITIVE