I'm sorry, but I don't see any way to make that work with LibreOffice's current architecture.

All of those components are still the same application, and run in the same process.

You can see that for example if you start Writer, then select "File" -> "New Spreadsheet": There's a Writer and a Calc window, but they both belong to the same single soffice process, and in Accerciser, you'll also see both windows as children of the same soffice (or soffice.bin) application.

So I think distinction would have to be done at least one level lower than the application, i.e. on the window/frame level or further down.

-> Closing for now, but please feel free to reopen if you have any further thoughts.

Reopening. Could you expose it as an object attribute somewhere?

Due to bug 156657, Orca treats all LibreOffice components as not supporting the collection interface. I really want to restrict that to just Calc.

If the user is in the document, I can easily ascend the accessibility tree and see what type of document it is. But if the user is outside the document (which is often the case in the scenario described in the other bug), I'd have to do a non-performant tree dive to look for a spreadsheet or some other indication that Calc is being used.

Thoughts?

(In reply to Joanmarie Diggs from comment #2)
> Reopening. Could you expose it as an object attribute somewhere?

I thought about it for a while and at least cannot think of a really simple/straightforward solution right now.
The top-level window/frame might be the easiest for Orca to evaluate, but (besides the question how to determine inside LO when/where to set the attribute and get that through the abstraction layers to the specific UI toolkit window) setting object attributes seems less straightforward than setting accessible name/description/ID for example. (It's relatively simple for document content where we implement the ATK or Qt a11y interfaces/objects ourselves anyway, but seems less straightforward for native GTK or Qt widgets that have existing a11y objects from a quick glance. At least for Qt, I'm quite sure it would require somehow implementing a custom QAccessibleInterface instead of being able to use the default one provided by the toolkit.

> Due to bug 156657, Orca treats all LibreOffice components as not supporting
> the collection interface. I really want to restrict that to just Calc.
> 
> If the user is in the document, I can easily ascend the accessibility tree
> and see what type of document it is. But if the user is outside the document
> (which is often the case in the scenario described in the other bug), I'd
> have to do a non-performant tree dive to look for a spreadsheet or some
> other indication that Calc is being used.
> 
> Thoughts?

Could using the AtSpiCollection interface be an option to see whether there's a DOCUMENT_SPREADSHEET object, using a max result count of 1, so that the search will stop once the spreadsheet object is found (to avoid the problem of iterating over all children)?

It's my first time really experimenting with the AtspiCollection interface, so I might be missing something, but at least in a quick test in Accerciser, this looks somewhat promising to me:

This (a single result within a short time) is what I get with with the top-level Calc window/frame selected, when using the gtk3 VCL plugin:

    In [127]:collection = acc.queryCollection()
    In [128]: rule = collection.createMatchRule(Atspi.StateSet(), Atspi.CollectionMatchType.ALL, [], Atspi.CollectionMatchType.ALL, [Atspi.Role.DOCUMENT_SPREADSHEET], Atspi.CollectionMatchType.ANY, [], Atspi.CollectionMatchType.ALL, False)
    In [129]: collection.getMatches(rule, Atspi.CollectionSortOrder.CANONICAL, 1, True)
    Out[129]: [<Atspi.Accessible object at 0x7f21746b54c0 (AtspiAccessible at 0x1e387200)>]
    In [130]: collection.getMatches(rule, Atspi.CollectionSortOrder.CANONICAL, 1, True)[0].get_role()
    Out[130]: <enum ATSPI_ROLE_DOCUMENT_SPREADSHEET of type Atspi.Role>
    In [131]: collection.getMatches(rule, Atspi.CollectionSortOrder.CANONICAL, 1, True)[0].get_name()
    Out[131]: 'Untitled 2 - LibreOfficeDev Spreadsheets'

Using a max count larger than 1 in the above example would trigger a LibreOffice freeze and timeout on the client side:

    In [1]: collection = acc.queryCollection()
    In [2]: rule = collection.createMatchRule(Atspi.StateSet(), Atspi.CollectionMatchType.ALL, [], Atspi.CollectionMatchType.ALL, [Atspi.Role.DOCUMENT_SPREADSHEET], Atspi.CollectionMatchType.ANY, [], Atspi.CollectionMatchType.ALL, False)
    In [3]: collection.getMatches(rule, Atspi.CollectionSortOrder.CANONICAL, 2, True)
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Error                                     Traceback (most recent call last)
    Cell In[3], line 1
    ----> 1 collection.getMatches(rule, Atspi.CollectionSortOrder.CANONICAL, 2, True)

    File /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pyatspi/collection.py:96, in Collection.getMatches(self, rule, sortby, count, traverse)
        95 def getMatches(self, rule, sortby, count, traverse):
    ---> 96         return Atspi.Collection.get_matches(self.obj, rule, sortby, count, traverse)

    Error: atspi_error: timeout from dbind (1)

For other applications/modules, the result set would be empty, e.g. for Writer:

    In [132]: collection = acc.queryCollection()
    In [133]: rule = collection.createMatchRule(Atspi.StateSet(), Atspi.CollectionMatchType.ALL, [], Atspi.CollectionMatchType.ALL, [Atspi.Role.DOCUMENT_SPREADSHEET], Atspi.CollectionMatchType.ANY, [], Atspi.CollectionMatchType.ALL, False)
    In [134]: collection.getMatches(rule, Atspi.CollectionSortOrder.CANONICAL, 1, True)
    Out[134]: []

Could something along these lines be a workable approach for Orca?


PS: As far as I know, only GTK 3/ATK currently implements AtspiCollection, so if the mid/long term idea is to rely on that interface, then Qt 6 and GTK 4 might need some more consideration/work - but that's just something to keep in mind for later...