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- /*
- * AT-SPI - Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface
- * (Gnome Accessibility Project; http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap)
- *
- * Copyright 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- *
- * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
- * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- * Library General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
- * License along with this library; if not, write to the
- * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
- */
-
- #include <Accessibility.idl>
-
- module Accessibility {
-
- /**
- * Derived from interface Text, EditableText provides methods for
- * modifying textual content of components which support editing.
- * EditableText also interacts with the system clipboard via copyText,
- * cutText, and pasteText.
- *
- * @note read-only instances of EditableText are possible;
- * These may be instances of a general-purpose component type which are
- * sometimes, but not always, user-editable, or may be
- * components which are temporarily or circumstantially
- * in a non-editable state.
- */
- interface EditableText : Text {
- /**
- * Replace the text contents with a new string, discarding the old contents.
- *
- * @param newContents a UTF-8 string with which the text object's contents will be replaced.
- * @returns \c True if the text content was successfully changed, \c False otherwise.
- */
- boolean setTextContents (in string newContents);
- /**
- * Insert new text contents into an existing text object at a given location, while retaining
- * the old contents.
- * @param position the character offset into the Text implementor's content at which the
- * new content will be inserted.
- * @param text a UTF-8 string of which \c length characters will be inserted into the text
- * object's text buffer.
- * @param length the number of characters of \c text to insert. If the character count
- * of \c text is less than or equal to \c length, the entire contents of \c text
- * will be inserted.
- *
- * @returns \c True if the text content was successfully inserted, \c False otherwise.
- */
- boolean insertText (in long position, in string text, in long length);
- /**
- * Apply a particular set of attributes to a range of text.
- *
- *
- * @returns \c True if the text attributes were successfully modified, \c False otherwise.
- */
- boolean setAttributes (in string attributes, in long startPos, in long endPos);
- /**
- * Copy a range of text into the system clipboard.
- * @param startPos the character offset of the first character in the range of text being
- * copied.
- * @param endPos the offset of the first character past the end of the range of text
- * being copied.
- */
- void copyText (in long startPos, in long endPos);
- /**
- * Excise a range of text from a Text object, copying it into the system clipboard.
- * @param startPos the character offset of the first character in the range of text being
- * cut.
- * @param endPos the offset of the first character past the end of the range of text
- * being cut.
- * @returns \c True if the text was successfully cut, \c False otherwise.
- */
- boolean cutText (in long startPos, in long endPos);
- /**
- * Excise a range of text from a Text object without copying it into the system clipboard.
- * @param startPos the character offset of the first character in the range of text being
- * deleted.
- * @param endPos the offset of the first character past the end of the range of text
- * being deleted.
- * @returns \c True if the text was successfully deleted, \c False otherwise.
- */
- boolean deleteText (in long startPos, in long endPos);
- /**
- * Copy the text contents of the system clipboard, if any, into a Text object,
- * inserting it at a particular character offset.
- *
- * @param position the character offset before which the text will be inserted.
- * @returns \c True if the text was successfully pasted into the Text object, \c False otherwise.
- */
- boolean pasteText (in long position);
-
- /**
- * unImplemented:
- *
- * placeholders for future expansion. Note that these are named
- * 'unimplemented5 and unimplemented6' to avoid conflict with
- * placeholders from Accessibility::Text.
- */
- void unImplemented5 ();
- void unImplemented6 ();
- void unImplemented9 ();
- void unImplemented10 ();
- void unImplemented11 ();
- void unImplemented12 ();
- };
- };
-