Re: UAIG Menu events

Yes, that's how the things works.

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Joseph Scheuhammer <clown@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On 2013-10-31 4:19 PM, Alexander Surkov wrote:
>>
>>   ... if theoretically I've got an open menu that never received a
>> menupopup_start event ...
>
> Bit of an aside ...
>
> Point of clarification:  Doesn't the menu event table describe events that
> fire when the author's scripts change the state of a menu (for the MSAA and
> UIA columns).  That is, the sequence is:  the user makes some gesture, then
> the script causes some menu behaviour to occur, and then the browser fires
> the corresponding event. Here's a concrete example: the user is somewhere
> within a menu and hits ESC,  then the script dismisses the menu, and then
> the browser emits a "popup end" event.
>
> That is, it's not that the menu *receives* these menu event, but that its
> behaviour results in the *sending* of a menu event that represents the
> menu's state change.
>
> Is that right?
>
>
> --
> ;;;;joseph.
>
>
> 'A: After all, it isn't rocket science.'
> 'K: Right. It's merely computer science.'
>              - J. D. Klaun -
>

Received on Thursday, 31 October 2013 21:48:45 UTC