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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-19 00:47:55 +0000
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*-
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+#include "nsISupports.idl"
+
+typedef long AccessibleTextBoundary;
+
+interface nsIAccessible;
+interface nsIArray;
+interface nsIPersistentProperties;
+interface nsIAccessibleTextRange;
+
+[scriptable, builtinclass, uuid(a4cc7576-45bb-44c5-b347-d9cb3ca4de9f)]
+interface nsIAccessibleText : nsISupports
+{
+ // In parameters for character offsets:
+ // -1 will be treated as the equal to the end of the text
+ // -2 will be treated as the caret position
+ const int32_t TEXT_OFFSET_END_OF_TEXT = -1;
+ const int32_t TEXT_OFFSET_CARET = -2;
+
+ const AccessibleTextBoundary BOUNDARY_CHAR = 0;
+ const AccessibleTextBoundary BOUNDARY_WORD_START = 1;
+ const AccessibleTextBoundary BOUNDARY_WORD_END = 2;
+ const AccessibleTextBoundary BOUNDARY_SENTENCE_START = 3; // don't use, deprecated
+ const AccessibleTextBoundary BOUNDARY_SENTENCE_END = 4; // don't use, deprecated
+ const AccessibleTextBoundary BOUNDARY_LINE_START = 5;
+ const AccessibleTextBoundary BOUNDARY_LINE_END = 6;
+ const AccessibleTextBoundary BOUNDARY_PARAGRAPH = 7;
+
+ /**
+ * The current current caret offset.
+ * If set < 0 then caret will be placed at the end of the text
+ */
+ attribute long caretOffset;
+
+ void getCaretRect(out long x, out long y, out long width, out long height);
+
+ readonly attribute long characterCount;
+ readonly attribute long selectionCount;
+
+ /**
+ * String methods may need to return multibyte-encoded strings,
+ * since some locales can't be encoded using 16-bit chars.
+ * So the methods below might return UTF-16 strings, or they could
+ * return "string" values which are UTF-8.
+ */
+ AString getText (in long startOffset, in long endOffset);
+
+ AString getTextAfterOffset (in long offset,
+ in AccessibleTextBoundary boundaryType,
+ out long startOffset,
+ out long endOffset);
+
+ AString getTextAtOffset (in long offset,
+ in AccessibleTextBoundary boundaryType,
+ out long startOffset,
+ out long endOffset);
+
+ AString getTextBeforeOffset (in long offset,
+ in AccessibleTextBoundary boundaryType,
+ out long startOffset,
+ out long endOffset);
+
+ /**
+ * It would be better to return an unsigned long here,
+ * to allow unicode chars > 16 bits
+ */
+ wchar getCharacterAtOffset (in long offset);
+
+ /**
+ * Get the accessible start/end offsets around the given offset,
+ * return the text attributes for this range of text.
+ *
+ * @param includeDefAttrs [in] points whether text attributes applied to
+ * the entire accessible should be included or not.
+ * @param offset [in] text offset
+ * @param rangeStartOffset [out] start offset of the range of text
+ * @param rangeEndOffset [out] end offset of the range of text
+ */
+ nsIPersistentProperties getTextAttributes(in boolean includeDefAttrs,
+ in long offset,
+ out long rangeStartOffset,
+ out long rangeEndOffset);
+
+ /**
+ * Return the text attributes that apply to the entire accessible.
+ */
+ readonly attribute nsIPersistentProperties defaultTextAttributes;
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the bounding box of the specified position.
+ *
+ * The virtual character after the last character of the represented text,
+ * i.e. the one at position length is a special case. It represents the
+ * current input position and will therefore typically be queried by AT more
+ * often than other positions. Because it does not represent an existing
+ * character its bounding box is defined in relation to preceding characters.
+ * It should be roughly equivalent to the bounding box of some character when
+ * inserted at the end of the text. Its height typically being the maximal
+ * height of all the characters in the text or the height of the preceding
+ * character, its width being at least one pixel so that the bounding box is
+ * not degenerate.
+ *
+ * @param offset - Index of the character for which to return its bounding
+ * box. The valid range is 0..length.
+ * @param x - X coordinate of the bounding box of the referenced character.
+ * @param y - Y coordinate of the bounding box of the referenced character.
+ * @param width - Width of the bounding box of the referenced character.
+ * @param height - Height of the bounding box of the referenced character.
+ * @param coordType - Specifies if the coordinates are relative to the screen
+ * or to the parent window (see constants declared in
+ * nsIAccessibleCoordinateType).
+ */
+ void getCharacterExtents (in long offset,
+ out long x,
+ out long y,
+ out long width,
+ out long height,
+ in unsigned long coordType);
+
+ void getRangeExtents (in long startOffset,
+ in long endOffset,
+ out long x,
+ out long y,
+ out long width,
+ out long height,
+ in unsigned long coordType);
+
+ /**
+ * Get the text offset at the given point, or return -1
+ * if no character exists at that point
+ *
+ * @param x - The position's x value for which to look up the index of the
+ * character that is rendered on to the display at that point.
+ * @param y - The position's y value for which to look up the index of the
+ * character that is rendered on to the display at that point.
+ * @param coordType - Screen coordinates or window coordinates (see constants
+ * declared in nsIAccessibleCoordinateType).
+ * @return offset - Index of the character under the given point or -1 if
+ * the point is invalid or there is no character under
+ * the point.
+ */
+ long getOffsetAtPoint (in long x, in long y,
+ in unsigned long coordType);
+
+ void getSelectionBounds (in long selectionNum,
+ out long startOffset,
+ out long endOffset);
+
+ /**
+ * Set the bounds for the given selection range.
+ * A reverse range where the start offset is larger than the end offset is
+ * acceptable. The caretOffset will be set to the endOffset argument.
+ */
+ void setSelectionBounds (in long selectionNum,
+ in long startOffset,
+ in long endOffset);
+
+ void addSelection (in long startOffset, in long endOffset);
+
+ void removeSelection (in long selectionNum);
+
+
+ /**
+ * Makes a specific part of string visible on screen.
+ *
+ * @param startIndex 0-based character offset
+ * @param endIndex 0-based character offset - the offset of the
+ * character just past the last character of the
+ * string
+ * @param scrollType defines how to scroll (see nsIAccessibleScrollType for
+ * available constants)
+ */
+ void scrollSubstringTo(in long startIndex, in long endIndex,
+ in unsigned long scrollType);
+
+ /**
+ * Moves the top left of a substring to a specified location.
+ *
+ * @param startIndex 0-based character offset
+ * @param endIndex 0-based character offset - the offset of the
+ * character just past the last character of
+ * the string
+ * @param coordinateType specifies the coordinates origin (for available
+ * constants refer to nsIAccessibleCoordinateType)
+ * @param x defines the x coordinate
+ * @param y defines the y coordinate
+ */
+ void scrollSubstringToPoint(in long startIndex, in long endIndex,
+ in unsigned long coordinateType,
+ in long x, in long y);
+
+ /**
+ * Return an array of disjoint ranges for selected text within the text control
+ * or otherwise the document this accessible belongs to.
+ */
+ readonly attribute nsIArray selectionRanges;
+};
+
+/*
+ Assumptions:
+
+ Using wstring (UCS2) instead of string encoded in UTF-8.
+ Multibyte encodings (or at least potentially multi-byte
+ encodings) would be preferred for the reasons cited above.
+
+ The following methods will throw an exception on failure
+ (since not every text component will allow every operation):
+ setSelectionBounds, addSelection, removeSelection, setCaretOffset.
+
+ we assume that all text components support the idea of
+ a caret offset, whether visible or "virtual". If this
+ isn't the case, caretOffset can be made readonly and
+ a setCaretOffset method provided which throws an exception
+ on failure (as with *selection methods above).
+*/