Bug 26815 – [Gtk] text-selection-changed events are not issued for the correct object when the selection spans multiple objects

• Status: VERIFIED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Accessibility

[Joanmarie Diggs]

(This is a spin-off bug from bug #25526 comment #15)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Launch Epiphany and Accerciser.

2. Having enabled Accerciser's event monitor to examine object:text-selection-changed events, use Shift+Right to select forward by character.

Expected results: The source of the event would be the accessible object in which text was just selected.

Actual results: The source of the event is the accessible object in which text selection began -- which is not necessarily the object in which the most recent text selection took place.

For instance, given:

    This <a href="foo.html">is</a> a test.

If I start selection somewhere in "This" and Shift+Right through to "test," I
see a text-selection-changed event for each press of Shift+Right, but all of
them are for the accessible which contains "This" rather than the link and
subsequent text.

[Xan Lopez]

Created attachment 32171 [details]
textselection.patch

Get the focused node from the selection end.

[Jan Alonzo]

Comment on attachment 32171 [details]
textselection.patch

r=me.

[Xan Lopez]

Landed as r45534.

[Joanmarie Diggs]

Verifying. Thanks Xan!