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diff --git a/docs/tmpl/atkcomponent.sgml b/docs/tmpl/atkcomponent.sgml index 046d8d4..fdef339 100644 --- a/docs/tmpl/atkcomponent.sgml +++ b/docs/tmpl/atkcomponent.sgml @@ -2,11 +2,21 @@ AtkComponent <!-- ##### SECTION Short_Description ##### --> - - +ATK Interface provided by UI components which occupy a physical area on +the screen. <!-- ##### SECTION Long_Description ##### --> <para> - +#AtkComponent should be implemented by most if not all UI elements with +an actual on-screen presence, i.e. components which can be said to have +a screen-coordinate bounding box. Virtually all widgets will need to +have #AtkComponent implementations provided for their corresponding +#AtkObject class. In short, only UI elements which are *not* GUI +elements will omit this ATK interface. +</para> +<para> +A possible exception might be textual information with a transparent +background, in which case text glyph bounding box information is +provided by #AtkText. </para> <!-- ##### SECTION See_Also ##### --> |