AtkSocket

AtkSocket — Container for AtkPlug objects from other processes

Functions

Types and Values

struct AtkSocket

Object Hierarchy

    GObject
    ╰── AtkObject
        ╰── AtkSocket

Implemented Interfaces

AtkSocket implements AtkComponent.

Includes

#include <atk/atk.h>

Description

Together with AtkPlug, AtkSocket provides the ability to embed accessibles from one process into another in a fashion that is transparent to assistive technologies. AtkSocket works as the container of AtkPlug, embedding it using the method atk_socket_embed(). Any accessible contained in the AtkPlug will appear to the assistive technologies as being inside the application that created the AtkSocket.

The communication between a AtkSocket and a AtkPlug is done by the IPC layer of the accessibility framework, normally implemented by the D-Bus based implementation of AT-SPI (at-spi2). If that is the case, at-spi-atk2 is the responsible to implement the abstract methods atk_plug_get_id() and atk_socket_embed(), so an ATK implementor shouldn't reimplement them. The process that contains the AtkPlug is responsible to send the ID returned by atk_plug_id() to the process that contains the AtkSocket, so it could call the method atk_socket_embed() in order to embed it.

For the same reasons, an implementor doesn't need to implement atk_object_get_n_accessible_children() and atk_object_ref_accessible_child(). All the logic related to those functions will be implemented by the IPC layer.

Functions

atk_socket_new ()

AtkObject *
atk_socket_new (void);

Creates a new AtkSocket.

Returns

the newly created AtkSocket instance.

[transfer full]


atk_socket_embed ()

void
atk_socket_embed (AtkSocket *obj,
                  const gchar *plug_id);

Embeds the children of an AtkPlug as the children of the AtkSocket. The plug may be in the same process or in a different process.

The class item used by this function should be filled in by the IPC layer (usually at-spi2-atk). The implementor of the AtkSocket should call this function and pass the id for the plug as returned by atk_plug_get_id(). It is the responsibility of the application to pass the plug id on to the process implementing the AtkSocket as needed.

Parameters

obj

an AtkSocket

 

plug_id

the ID of an AtkPlug

 

Since: 1.30


atk_socket_is_occupied ()

gboolean
atk_socket_is_occupied (AtkSocket *obj);

Determines whether or not the socket has an embedded plug.

Parameters

obj

an AtkSocket

 

Returns

TRUE if a plug is embedded in the socket

Since: 1.30

Types and Values

struct AtkSocket

struct AtkSocket;

See Also

AtkPlug