How to read files using relative path

Hi there, I am using nsiLocalFile to read a file. How do i specify the relative file path? Currently i am specifying the full path like file.initWithPath("c:\\myfolder\\testfile.xml"). I need relative path since i use it in various systems where myfolder is not always under the c drive. Thanks, -AJ

Event path in Mozilla plugin on Mac

I'm writing a mozilla plugin on the mac. I'm trying to capture events like button clicks, etc. I've done the normal thing of creating my views in inteface builder, and linking the sentActions to methods in my program. This works in stand-alone programs. However, in my NPAPI plugin, those methods never get called. The button reacts, depresses, whatever, but it doesn't do its action. Instead, the NPP_HandleEvent method gets called, but I never get the MouseDown or MouseUp event, only the UpdateEvt. I set up the buttons to accept clicks via: (superview is the Mozilla view, topv

What is the type of instance->pdata->window.window->window on a mac?

an NPP struct has a pdata for private data, in most plugins I've seen, pdata has a window field of type NPWindow. NPWindow is a struct with a pointer to a window which is machine dependant. On a mac, it is of type NP_CGContext. NP_CGContext has a field called window which is a ... Something? Mozilla docs seem to claim it is a WindowRef, which is a QuickDraw type, and therefore not useful, because Quickdraw is only 32b and so doesn't work in 3.6. I've inspected the data, and it does not APPEAR to be a WindowRef... Apple claims it is an NSWindow, but I've tested that, and when

How to loadbitmap file in plugin window on js call?

Hi, I have html button onclick of that button I want to call Js function and that function will some plugin's native method in that method I want to load bitmap and display in plugin window. I have added code on WM_Paint to load bitmap and display in plugin window, but that works only first time when plugin loaded. Now I want to to call this WM_Paint on html button click. How to achieve this ? or How to update plugin window on JS call? Regards Varsha

Plugin that communicate with an USB device

hello I use a middleware in C language in order to communicate with an USB device, it works well outside the plugin, in order to compile I have to add a library <Mylabrary.h> in the code and i compile with gcc $(pkg-config --cflags --libs libMylabrary) test.c -o test when i execute ./test, this works fine, I can communicate with my device.... But if I take the same code and I import it in the "basic" plugin: [1], i put my code at the end of the fonction "drawWindow", when I download this plugin with firefox, and when I go on the html page that invoke the plugin, firefox crash ! If

Firefox Extensions and MySQL

Hi All Apologies if this question has been asked in the past but I would really appreciate some pointers. I'm trying to develop an extension for Firefox which is custom made to my workplace. I need the extension to connect remote MySQL database and save some data to MySQL databases. And I try to using jdbc to connect database , but it's failed . what I need is some advice on how to let JDBC with javascripts running inside Firefox ? or do you have any idea ? any help will be appreciated !! Thanks Andrew

How to Load and Draw bitmap in plugin window?

Hi, I am new to this plugin development. I checked "An OpenGL Sample as Firefox Plugin" and npruntime and successfully build these two project. But when I tried to load to change npruntime plugin to load and display bitmap in plugin window that gaves me system error on loadbitmap function error code is ERROR_WAS_UNLOCKED 715 (0x2CB). {Page Unlocked} The page protection of a locked page was changed to 'No Access' and the page was unlocked from memory and from the process. I don't why this error occurred there . I want to simply load and display bitmap in plugin winodw Is this p

Objective C plugin sample?

I'm trying to re-write an old image-viewing plugin for the mac. The old version uses QuickDraw (I said it was old) and resources (really really old) and so it doesn't work in Firefox 3.6 (which is why I'm re- writing it) I know some Objective C, and so I figure I'm going co re-write this in that using new-fangled Mac routines and nibs, etc. However, I don't know how to start. I've got the BasicPlugin example that comes with mozilla source, so I know how to create a plugin with entrypoints, etc. However, I don't know how to create the nib, and how to interface Obj-C with the entrypo

Cannot display Core Animation content.

Good morning to everyone. I don't know if this is the right place where = ask. Sorry. I'm developing a plugin on OSX 10.6 . I'm trying to display Core Animation Content. I've seen in the example named "BasicPlugin" that I can display content = using the CGContextRef given by event->data.draw.context, where event is = a NPCocoaEvent*. Now I tried to do almost the same with my layer, obviously trying to = cast and convert the CGContextRef to the type I really need = (CGLContextObj). What I'm asking here is: is the right way to do it? Or maybe should I create my own NSView, try = to bi

Mac plugins: GetWindowFromPort no longer supported?

I'm mantaining an ancient Mac plugin. It uses GetWindowFromPort to get a WindowPtr object out of the NP_Port object which is the platform specific window data in the WidowPtr object. NP_Port object is non-null as is the port field (CGraphPtr) of that object. However, without GetWindowFromPort, I no longer know how to get a WindowPtr from a CGraphPtr... I'll ask this on mac sites as well, but in case there is a Mozilla specific issue here... It worked in 3.5.7, but not 3.6...

Scriptable Plugin in 3.6 Fails - NPPVpluginScriptableInstance removed?

I have a scriptable plugin that conforms to the following API... http://www.mozilla.org/projects/plugins/scripting-plugins.html It works in Firefox 2.0 all the way to Firefox 3.5, but now no longer works om 3.6. The plugin is installed, goes through the proper NP_Initialize, NP_GetEntryPoints, NP_Shutdown, etc. , and it shows up in the Addons / Plugins page, so all appears ok. But, the NPP_GetValue NPPVpluginScriptableInstance and NPPVpluginScriptableIID are no longer called. I do get the call for NPPVariable.NPPVpluginScriptableNPObject call, but that is the only one. So,

How can the NPAPI basic demo work with QtWebkit??

the plugin is got from mozilla-1.9.2/modules/plugin/sdk/samples/basic/unix/ , it's the Basic Demo of NPAPI, and I am working in linux(ubuntu) it's work well in firefox, and google's Chrome, but it cannot work in QtWebkit. When I run the Demo test page , I got some infomation from terminal, see below. ** (<unknown>:3020): DEBUG: NP_Initialize ** (<unknown>:3020): DEBUG: NP_Initialize succeeded ** (<unknown>:3020): DEBUG: NP_Initialize ** (<unknown>:3020): DEBUG: NP_Initialize succeeded ** (<unknown>:3020): DEBUG: NP_Initialize ** (<unknown>:3020): DEBUG: NP_Initialize succeeded **

Mozilla Web Browser Document object can't set with HtmlDocument

Hi, Currently I am working on the the automate the IE and Its working really very fine. But with IE only. I also want to automate the Mozilla web browser. For IE I have write down the following code. General: Public WithEvents IE As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer Public WithEvents HtmDoc As HTMLDocument '' Open one standard exe and in form1 Put one List Box and one command button. Copy and paste the below code in the form 1 *********************************************************************************************************************************** Private Sub CreateIE()

how to accessing java ?

Hi all , I currently have some Java classes. Instead of converting them to Javascript, I am exploring of using Java XPCOM or Liveconnect to connect js and java into a firefox extension. However, I find some news about Liveconnect is not longer going with firefox 3.6 , is it true ? And anyone knows what's the difference about javaxpcom and liveconnect ? if you have any suggestion about develop java in firefox extension , please let me know! Any help will be appreciated, Thanks, Andrew

How to see the xpt file ?

Hi all, How to see the xpt file ? can I convert xpt format file to idl format file ? Thanks,

Error calling method on NPObject!

Hi ~ When I install firefox extension from http://simile.mit.edu/repository/java-firefox-extension/ But when I install java-firefox-extension-2.0.0.xpi then restart firefox , It's shown me the msg as follows : Error calling method on NPObject! [plugin exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No method found matching name newInstance and arguments [com.sun.java.browser.plugin2.liveconnect.v1.JavaNameSpace, java.lang.Integer]]. Any help will be appreciated ! Cheers, Andrew

How to define file path in plugin.cpp?

hi friend ~ i am new to firefox develop . 1. What is the difference between a firefox plugin, a add-on, and an firefox extension? 2. I've create a firefox plugin using npruntime and it's work fine .Now I want to add a method in plugin.cpp that call a excute file , but how to define the excute file path when I package it into an XPI file?

Multi-Process plugin

Hi guys, I wanna test Multi-Process plugin so I downloaded firefox-3.7a1pre.en- US.win32.installer.exe which was one of latest trunk and went to c: \program files\Minefield\defaults\pref. I opened firefox.js and changed pref("dom.ipc.plugins.enabled", false); to true. I wanna know if I need to change pref("dom.ipc.tabs.enabled", false); also to true. Best Regards Nilson

Employment Opportunity

Hello, Are you still looking for a job ? Respond back to barrysteve77@gmail.com only if you are a very hard working and serious type. I have a job opportunity available. Regards,

How does mozilla supports activex

I have come across some sites which says that mozilla can now support activeX content. but mozilla supports Netscape plugin.Does netscape plugin supports activex? If yes what type of interface is used by netscape plugin? where will i get the sorce code for the same

e10s-plugins will not merge to mozilla-central any more

I've decided not to "merge" the plugin changes from electrolysis to mozilla-central any more. The gymnastics necessary were good for the initial commit to preserve blame, but are creating more confusion than help now. Checkins to OOPP now need to happen in mozilla-central. Feel free to land them first in the Electrolysis branch if you'd like to get additional testing. Normal review rules apply in either case. After pushing changes to mozilla-central, please also update this wiki page: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Plugins/OOPP_Branch_Tracking I'm using this page to track all the

Status bar updates fail after using NPN_GetURL

For more details see similar problem after NPN_PostURLNotify hit by another developer: http://forums-test.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=757625 Using the Gecko API: Using NPN_Status or JavaScript to updated the status bar works fine until a call to NPN_GetURL(mNpp, "http://192.168.1.126/~reedb/ render.php", NULL); is made. After the post has completed, and called successfully NPP_DestroyStream, the status bar displays "Transferring data from x...". All calls to update the status bar text now fail (NPN_Status is a void function unfortunately). The only thing that will clea

Array of Objects

Hi, I am writing scriptable plugin and I am sure lot of people must have faced similar problem. I need to pass Array from Javascript and return Array of NPObjects to Javascript from NPAPI plugin. But there is not documentation about how this is achieved. please reply if you think of something or have documentation links or sample code. cheers, Digambar

How to embed an application into Firefox viewport?

Hi guys, We are setting about embedding a client application into Firefox viewport. It is the final effect that we drag a given file into browser and then the application startup, which is the same as AdobeReader embedded in browser reading PDF. We have done it in IE. Firstly we wrote some information to registry. With a given file's being dragged into browser, main program (non-plugin) run in embed mode inside the viewport. How to achieve it in Firefox? Thanks~

Any example of writing an NPAPI plugin in Linux?

Hi, all I need to write a browser plugin to communicate with another process, and it seems I have to use NPAPI plugins. Is there any example or open source NPAPI plugin I can refer to? Many thanks for your reply.

mozilla plugin on mac

Hi, I can not get firefox on mac osx 10.6 to load the npcomplex sample I built. I drop the plugin file called libnpcomlex.dylib into ~/Library/ Internet Plug-Ins Do I need an Info.plist file for this to work. By not loading I mean I do not see it when I type about:plugins in the browser URL. EM

Flash Player 10 plugin and standard NPAPI

Flash Player 10 has new features and optimizations. In order to enhance some of the optimizations, browser needs to notify plugin visibility status to Flash plugin instance. It will be nice that there will be standard API to handle this issue. What is the Mozilla policy? Is it possible to extend NPAPI in order to support the new feature? thanks, Alessandro

howto create a high performance DIV scroller

Hello, I am a seasoned programmer, new to Netscape plugin development. After = several days of spelunking the Mozilla SDK sites, I decided it was time = to cry for help. The objective is to create a DIV scroll profile which simulates that of = the iPhone. I have searched and found several JavaScript animation = libraries. I was able to prototype the functionality by animating the = ScrollTop attribute of a DIV tag. Although this worked on the desktop, = it does not perform well on the target which is an embedded device. (the = target browser is Opera) The next step is to try th

manually install plugin

Hi, I wrote a plugin and packaged it into an XPI file. I have the following tag on my html page used to install the plugin installer. <object type="application/x-mypluginapp" id="plugin" width="0" height="0" codebase="webphone.xpi"> </object> After I navigate to my web page, it detects there is no plugin installed and I click the button "Install Missing Plugin" A dialog box titled "plugin finder service" pops up. Then on this form I have to hit another button called "manual install" to actually install the plugin. Hitting the manual install button then opens another browser

Re: Google Maps and Adobe Flash

To Mike: Flash plug-in can get a scriptable object from your application via NPN_GetValue(... , NPNVWindowNPObject, ...). You should return a real (maybe you have a javascript engine in your app), or just a virtual (your own simple implementation) scriptable object. Then the plug-in will call NPN_Invoke with method name "_DoFSCommand" and exactly 2 arguments of NPVariantType_String. Those arguments will be the actual command and its argument.

How to get directory in wich plugin is installed (or current profile)

This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigE35AC2521859AA7A208928AA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello list, I develope a plugin for firefox (in c++). Plugin is installed via XPI in ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxx.default/extensions/plugin@company/ Now how can I find in plugin in which directory is plugin installed? Maybe there is a API function to get a current profile name of running instance? In that case I can find a plugin directory too. Thank you for your help. --=20 Oleksandr Shneyder

Google Maps and Adobe Flash

Hi, i'm developing a standalone Flash player for Linux based on libflashplayer.so and it's almost finished, but i've encountered an interesting problem with Google Maps Street View drawing in windowed mode (via XEMBED). Actually, i call NPP_SetWindow with right width and height (i.e. the width and height of GtkWindow above which the GtkSocket is situated) like for any other flash movie, but on Google Maps i can see the world bihind a gray rectangle which usually serves as a border (see http://imageshare.web.id/images/4cxzto3lqyotmloy7o.png ). That rectangle is always 800x500

How to modify plugin properties?

Hello, I'm coding a plugin with some methods and properties. I found how to get properties in javascript, but I'm blocked on how to set properties. In the javascript, I've done : pluginobj.lge.value = 15; but the plugin method ScriptablePluginObject::SetProperty was not called. I do something wrong ? Thanks for your help. Philippe

Cannot find NP_Shutdown

Summary: In my minimal plugin project, Firefox hits NP_GetEntryPoints, but then crashes stating it can't find NP_Shutdown. I have npbasic running through the debugger with gecko SDK 13, and that seems to work fine. I'm trying to do pretty much the same thing in my own project. It seems to want to use gecko SDK 16, and it hits a breakpoint in NP_GetEntryPoints, but then crashes in pr_FindSymbolInLib (according to the symbol server). It never gets to NP_Initialize. As far as I can tell, both projects are set up identically, and depends shows the exports are identical. Both thes

how events inside a plugin are handle

Hi, I am new to Firefox. Whenever click happens inside a flash plugin window, then click event passed by browser to flash plugin or flash plugin gets that event from OS. For example, When I am watching youtube video, and I click on video, then who passes that click event to flash plugin, browser or OS (operating system). regards, Kailas

NPObject and XPCOM (plugin)

I'm looking to pass an XPCOM object between a plugin (scriptable - npruntime) and JavaScript. Is it possible to pass (or convert) an XPCOM object to an NPObject? Thanks, Todd

Constructor in NPObject

Hi, I am new to NPAPI and frankly I am confused. AFAIU, browser creates plugin instances through NPP_New and gets scriptable objects through NPP_GetValue. Plugin Instance creates the scriptable object by calling NPN_CreateObject. And I assume that NPN_CreateObject calls the allocate function in the NPClass that is passed to it. The questions is what is the constructor function in the NPClass used for? Is it different than allocate? Does it create a new plugin? Thanks Levent

why does renaming a sample plugin cause a load failure?

I need to write a scriptable plugin, so I started with the npscriptable sample from the SDK and renamed the DLL (vcproj settings) and the 'npscriptable' strings in the windows version resource (npscriptable.rc)... thinking this would be the right thing to do... and the plugin will not load. If I build the npscriptable sample and copy that to the plugins directory, it works fine. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, but I have been unsuccessful so far... having tried many things. If you have a pointer to another scriptable plugin sample, that would be helpful as well. than

Logging in plugin

Hi, I am writing a mozilla plugin using NPAPI and am considering using log4cxx. Is this advisable and where should I drop the log file. Anyone have any logging guidelines for plugins? EM

Netscape Plugin, Carbon Events & Core Graphics

Hi, I=B9m converting our Netscape style plugin to be 64-bit compatible and using the opportunity to update the event model / drawing model code so it works with Safari / Firefox on 10.4 and upwards. It is all relatively straightforward dealing with Carbon / Cocoa events and Quickdraw / Core Graphics drawing with the exception of the handling of mouse down events under FireFox 3.x. FireFox 3x uses the old Carbon event model but with Quartz to do the actual drawing from the plugin. I=B9m having a problem converting the global mouse coordinates which I receive from the Carbon Event

How to Get the Rendered HTML Source

Hi All, I am writing a framework on semantics and I am intending to write a plugin for firefox to demonstrate this framework. For this I need to extract the rendered HTML source from the active file. How can I get this done. Can someone help me out? Thanks in advance. -- Thanks, Regards, Sajith Vimukthi Weerakoon, T .P No : ++94-716102392

OpenGL plugin (Firefox) and JavaScript overlay

Hi all i have some issue with firefox plugin (using openGL context). which is nicely working. but i like to overlay a javascript gui, and once it gets hidde behind the plugin (opengl, rendering done in back ground thread) with iframe under iexplorer similar activeX works ok. but with firefox it doesn; t work is there any suggestion? adrian -- ******************************************** Adrian Egli

plugin detected but not working

hello, i've created a simple plugin in visual studio and copy .dll to / plugins directory and its work fine in my computer but when i copy this .dll to another comp its not working... but the plugin is detect correctly, i've checked about:plugins, i also find it may be cause by .manifest files but i copy it also to /plugins directory but its not help...do i have to add something in the system registry? mime type or something? anyone could help me?

JOB OFFER: Firefox plugin development

Hello folks, my company is looking for a plugin developer. We have the need to develop a plugin that, upon a search within a search engine (ie: google) the web browser will re-format the results in 2 different ways upon user's choice: 1) show a graphic logo beside certain results (upon checking priory within my company's database) and when mousing over the logo, popping up a window containing certain things, taken from my company's db 2) all of the above, but re-ordering the results coming from the search engine query. You can have an example of the functionality as per point

Open source cross platform plugin framework

Hey all, Quick invitation to anyone who is interested; I have implemented at work a cross-platform browser framework that works on mac, windows, and linux, with all major browsers (that I know of), including IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc. Unfortunately, they will not let me release it as an open source project. So, since I know how to do it, I have created an open source project and begun work on it; I could really use some help. With a few other competent developers, I don't think it will take a real long time to get basic plugin functionality going. I don't expect a lot

NPN_GetURLNotify sometimes leaves dangling "transferring data from..." status msgs

Both Firefox 3.0 and 3.5, both Mac and Windows: My plugin uses NPN_GetURLNotify to download files that it needs, and I can confirm that all files finish downloading. But Firefox sometimes leaves a "Waiting for <myserver.com>" or "Transferring data from <myserver.com>..." message in the bottom status section of the browser window. browser->geturlnotify(fInstance, fullURL.c_str(), NULL, this); Notice I am setting the destination to NULL, so the browser won't show the URL in its main window. I am intercepting NPP_StreamAsFile to retrieve the resulting downloaded files. What ca

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hi all I am again sending my request for help. i am very new to plugins so I am so= rry in advance if i am asking stupid question.i am developing plugin for vi= deo conferencing application minisip. www.minisip.org i am confused that how my plugin will interact with my applictation.=A0plea= se help sara=0A=0A=0A Get your preferred Email name!=0ANow you can @ymail.com = and @rocketmail.com. =0Ahttp://mail.promotions.yahoo.com/newdomains/aa/

How does a plugin access a resource in XPI file?

I have a plugin written in C. It needs to read information from a file. I could hard-code the contents of the file into the plugin, but it would be more convenient to put the file into the XPI zip file and then extract it from there. But how do I get at it? I tried putting it in the chrome/content directory and when the plugin is loaded I can see it in the browser window using a chrome://... url. But when I try to do NPN_GetURL(..., "chrome://....", ...) it fails (network error, can't be found I guess). I came across r8159 for Chrome 2.0.158.0 blocking Adobe from using NPN_GetURL() w

Exporting history

I wanted to get a lot of test data for my data mining tool. so i needed a lot of browser history as test data. I wanted to know how to Export your firefox browser history??? Thanks in Advance Ayushman

Has anybody used pluginbase.h to build a plugin?

Hi, I find an encapsulation for NPAPI plugins in /modules/plugin/sdk/ samples/include/pluginbase.h. However, when I tried to build my simple plugin with it, my code always failed to pass the compilation. GCC reports an error: testplugin.cpp:5: error: expected initializer before =91NS_PluginInitialize=92 Source code for testplugin.cpp: #include <glib.h> #include "testplugin.h" NPError NS_PluginInitialize() // <-- LINE 5: error occurs here!!! { g_message("Global plugin initialization.\n"); return NPERR_NO_ERROR; } void NS_PluginShutdown() { g_message("Global