Pointer grabs causing accessibility issues! Why not deprecate them?

Solerman Kaplon solerman at wonder.com.br
Mon Apr 28 08:03:00 PDT 2008


Xavier Bestel escreveu:
> Just as a data point: AFAIK under Windows, the toolkits just care for
> the clicks in their own window to cancel a popup menu, not on the whole
> desktop. So a buggy application can't grab the UI.
>   
On windows they use SetCapture from user32.dll to do just that, 
specially on drag n' drop stuff, but it only send events when the mouse 
button is down (according to the docs).

Solerman



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