LiveConnect and XUL Runner on Mac

Hello, I am trying to use LiveConnect to call some Java functions using LiveConnect on OSX. I've done some googling and it seems a bit ambiguous whether or not this even works anymore - I understand there was a lot of code cleanup around Mozilla 2.x and LiveConnect. Complicating things is the fact that Apple insists on shipping its own version of Java. But I'm hoping that this should still work. I've tried the basic recipe from the Mozilla site: var clazz = java.lang.Class.forName("com.getbuzzbird.myClass",true,loader); var method = clazz.getMethod("myMethod",[]); method.invo

Printing XUL pages

Hi, I want to print the manual of my XulRunner application. The manual is XHTML with embeded IFRAMES containing the original XUL files of the application. On screen I see the IFRAMES filled with original screens like screenshots but not as dead as screen shots but clickable with working functionality. But when I print this manual only the XMTML is printed, the IFRAMES are printed as empty boxes. What must I do to get the XUL content inside the IFRAMES printed too?

Input problems within XUL browser element

I've written a Firefox extension that creates a sidebar. The sidebar UI is implemented in HTML by encapsulating it within a XUL browser element. The XUL container for the HTML UI looks something like this - <vbox> <browser id="mySidebar"> </browser> </vbox> I fill in the HTML UI dynamically via Javascript // Get the XUL browser element var sidebar = document.getElementById('mySidebar'); // Access the document object for the browser element var sidebarDocument = sidebar.contentDocument; // Create an HTML input box and append it to the browser document

Menulist: Menuitem with multiple elements

Hi, I'm new in XUL. I'm developing a little application and I need to have a menulist, with some items with multiple caption inside. I try this code: <menulist editable="true"> <menupopup> <menuitem> <box orient="horizontal"> <caption label="One" /> <caption label="Two" /> <caption label="Tree" /> </box> </menuitem> <menuitem label="Four" value="2"/> <menuitem label="Five" value="3"/> <menuitem label="Six" value="4"/> </menupopup> </menulist> It works. But when I select the item with multiple captions, the main label of the menulist remain blank. There is a method to

contenteditable not working in xul window

Hello everybody, I have a xul runner applications and at a certain moment I have use several html editors. I was thinking that it is much easier to write + handle something like <html:div contenteditable="true">some content to be edited</html:div> rather than <xul:editor>, etc. This works very well into an xhtml document, but into a xul one, the editable div gets focus and the dotted border, but remains read-only. Am I missing something or there is a bug? Or this is the intended behavior? In any case, I am finding this feature very useful because in my case not only simplifies

get url from closed tab

Hi, I'd liked get the url of a just closed tab. I use this monitor : gBrowser.tabContainer.addEventListener("TabClose", onTabClose, false); ....and this function : function onTabClose{ browser = event.target.linkedBrowser; var url = browser.baseURI; var url2 = browser.aLocation.spec; var url3 = browser.currentURI.spec; dump("NVonTabClose: url1: " + url + " url2: " + url2 + " url3: " + url3); } However, noone of those methods get the url (undefined message). Other idea ? Thanks, Thibaud.

This is not a valid instalation package -207

Hi!!! I'm developing one firefox extension and I get this error when I try to install it. "This is not a valid instalation package -207" Do you know what could be the error? Thanks.

Selection color changes when control loses focus

I have a tree control that has an item selected. While the control has focus, the item is blue (and it is clear it is selected). However, when the tree control loses focus, the selection color becomes a sort of gray, which makes it hard to determine which item in the tree is selected. Is there a way to keep the selection blue even when the control loses focus? Thanks, -- Greg

Private JVM?

Can I put a JVM inside my XULRunner (which is setup as private to my XUL application)? I tried copying all the files from Sun JRE6 install into /xulrunner/ plugins/jvm/, just hoping that might work. Does anybody know the search process XULRunner uses to find JVM? I'm building for Windows and Linux, so information on either would be helpful. BTW, the same setup displays my JVM just fine (via about:plugins) when the same JVM is truly installed in the OS. I get nothing for Java when the only JVM that exists is my private one.

Make an editable custom tree view?

I have a tree that I have set up to be editable. However, when I double-click on a cell nothing happens. Do I need to handle the double-click event? I thought that would be handled by default from nsITreeView. I have set editable=true on the tree and each individual tree column. And my view has isEditable always returning true. The code I am using follows if that helps... What am I missing? Thanks, -- Greg The tree declaration: <tree id="mytree class="mycalet-tree" flex="1" enableColumnDrag="true" editable="true"> <treecols> <treecol id="publishInvi

center treecell image

I shouldn't be banging my head over this but, anyone know of a way to center the image set via 'src' in a treecell. I think I'm having trouble because the image is controlled by list-style-image. It would be nice if I could set the image using css background-image.

can't access extension javascript from html within editor xul

Hi, I've dynamically added an xul editor in my extension and using execCommand:inserthtml add a button to that editor with an onclick event that calls some javascript from my extension. I can see the button fine in the editor and can click on it, but the onclick event never fires as far as I can tell. I know onclick is set using Dom Inspector. Even with just an alert, though, nothing happens. Any ideas? Thanks, Dan

Template RDF Style

Hi, i have a rdf template, and want to set the background-color of the element with the value from the rdf but this does not work: <vbox id="vboxL" datasources="../rdf/lvplan.rdf.php" ref="http://www.example.com/lvplan/alle"> <template> <rule> <grid uri="rdf:*"> <columns> <column /> <column /> </columns> <rows> <row style="background-color: rdf:http://www.example.com/lvplan/rdf#color;" > <label value="rdf:http://www.example.com/lvplan/rdf#text"/> </row> </rows> </grid>

XUL Standalone application and Java applet

Hi, After much of searching, I am not sure if I am looking for correct "search terms", so any help/suggestions are helpful. Here is the question, I have an iframe showing local html file in a Standalone XUL application. In that local html file, I have a code alert(navigator.javaEnabled()); and I am always getting false as a result. This local file loads the java applet but as this result is false, so the applet is not getting loaded at all. So, How do I enable Java Plugin in Standalone XUL applications? I am using Mac OS Snow Leopard(64 bit on Intel), XULRunner 1.9.1.7

File Open Dialog Target

I'm using nsIFilePicker to allow the user to select a file like this: var nsIFilePicker = Components.interfaces.nsIFilePicker; var fileChooser = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/filepicker;1"].createInstance(nsIFilePicker); fileChooser.init(window, "Select a file...",nsIFilePicker.modeOpen); var fileBox = fileChooser.show(); Is there any way to tell nsIFilePicker what specific directory to open up in? My Googling hasn't turned up anything.

treecol vs treecell width issue

With columns like Tax Code or Currency which are 2 or 3 chars wide I have to set the width of the treecol much larger than necessary to show the header ( f.e. TC or CUR ) while the treecells values ( f.e. 01 or EUR, USD ) are shown correctly. The treecol header seems to have a "fixed" space to its the right ( maybe to hold sort arrows ). Any suggestion how to solve it? I've tried with crop and alignment but without success. best regards, LF

Duplicate appearance of tab-close and tab-new buttons

Hi guys, In efforts to make a nice preferences UI for my firefox extension i'm endeavoring to duplicate the appearance of the tabs-newtab-button and tab-close-button of the tabbrowser. However simply defining a toolbarbutton (as in tabbrowser.xml) with the appropriate class does not seem to be enough. I also can't seem to find any references to the (platform dependent) icon resource inside the chrome. Do I have to fully implement the binding to inherit the full appearance and how would I go about incorporating this into my xul; or am I missing something else? Regards,

addEventListener on browser object

Does anyone have an idea why doesn't this piece of code work? I'm trying to add an event listener to the browser object so that when the page inside the browser is reloaded via loadURI the event is triggered yet the function ares is never called... <?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/" type="text/css"?> <window id="yourwindow" xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/ gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"> <browser id="1" src='http://google.com/' width="500" height="200" onload="alert('asd')" /> &lt;script type="text/javascript"> function browserLoad() { t

drawImage throws exception NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE

Hi there, I have a problem for a couple of months now, that I by-passed before but now I need a real fix : I think this issue is quite known, but I found no real patch or fix for it : I want to draw an image in a html canvas, so I did like explained here : https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Canvas_tutorial/Using_images And as stated on the page : "When this script gets executed, the image starts loading. If loading isn't finished when a drawImage statement gets executed, the script halts until the image is finished loading." But the part "the script halts until the image is fin

nsIHelperAppLauncher.saveToDisk error

Hello, in an xul application, I use an iframe to serve HTML content. In this html, I have a link to download a file. When clicking this link, the popup for choosing whether opening or saving the file appears, and if I select "save files" and then click OK I have this error : Erreur : [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIHelperAppLauncher.saveToDisk]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: file:///home/christian/xulrunner-1.9.0.15/components/nsHelperAppDlg.js :: anonymous :: line 449" data: no] Fich

Menupopup as dialog?

Hi, I'm just wondering if it is possible to have a menupopup with dialog character. Within a function there should be a openPopup call to receive a value from the selected menuitem of the popup. Is this possible? I need this to pass the value to a variable. Regards hle

Problem with browser contentDocument in xulrunner

In a xulrunner application, I have a hidden browser defined like this: <window id="main-window"> <!-- ###### PANEL OVERLAY ###### --> <popupset id="glider-panel-popupset" /> <broadcasterset> <broadcaster id="glider-panel-display" /> <broadcaster id="glider-date-display-yes" disabled="true" /> <broadcaster id="glider-date-display-no" disabled="true" /> </broadcasterset> <browser id="glider-hidden-browser" collapsed="true" /> </window> I am trying to load some HTML code into the browser, like this: var browser = document.getElementById("glider-hid

Tree with XML template inside prefpane - bug?

I'd been fighting with building a tree from an XML template and external datasource inside a prefpane. I found I could build lists etc. from the same XML source, but not the tree that I wanted. I was about to give up and use a list instead, when on a "one last try", I removed the flags="dont-build-content" attribute from the tree element et voila! my tree worked! I guess this is a bug, unless someone can enlighten me, in which case I'll report it.

Event handlers on children of toolbarbutton

In an existing application that I'm modifying, there is a toolbarbutton that has a click handler on it. I'd like to change that so that instead of the handler on the toolbarbutton, there is a handler on the label element that is the toolbarbutton element's first child. I've tried to do this, and the label element does not receive the click event. I'd like to know if this is possible. If it isn't, I can change the xul so that there is, instead of a toolbarbutton, a box with explicit label and image children. Thanks.

Is there a way to save picture of image element to another place.

Hi, I have an image element in xul window. And I src attribute of the image element to a chrome url, and now I wanna save the picture of the image show= n to another file. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. --=20 =B5=CB=B6=AC=B6=AC =B5=E7=BB=B0=A3=BA51570010-6495

Dynamic nodes insertion & rendering issue (scrollbar)

Hi all, I'm inserting dynamically elements into my xul document with JQuery, and it's working quite well. Quite well because if the content is bigger than the container height, the renderer don't show a scrollbar. 1. I load an iframe with an empty (almost) xul document <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin" type="text/css"?> <xul:window id="xulWindow" xmlns:xul="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/ there.is.only.xul" xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul" orient="vertical" xmlns:html='h

XPCOM problem: windows 2000

Hello, I am new to XUL application development, and by reading a few tutorials I now have a working application using

Saving preferences in a editable tree

I am trying to implement an editable tree in which I am trying save the preference string every time the user makes a change to the tree using the 'onsynctopreference' event handler. However, when I remove an element from the tree, this event handler doesn't get called and I am manually saving the preference string. Also, for adding an entry, I am using the startEditing method. Here, the event handler does get called but since the label of the treecell is only set once stopEditing is called, the preference string does not get updated with the new value. This has got me totally con

Determining Which Tab is Selected in XUL Dialog

I've been experimenting with tabs in a XUL dialog. I have two tabs (let's call them A & B) and want to perform an action based on which tab is active (ie - which one I'm looking at). How do I determine which tab is the active one? I've tried working with selectedIndex, selectedItem and selectedTab but can't seem to get anything beyond "undefined."

Scrollbar firing/clicking events

Hi Guys, How can I get a firing/clicking event in XUL scrollbar. I have a box where, when I refresh the content using DOM creation and deletion, I want to have user get the top of the page for every DOM refresh. I tried many tricks with the js like window.scrollTo, etc.. no luck so far. Appreciate if you have solution/trick for above issue. thanks

xul updater for mac

I've recently added xul's auto update functionality to an xul application that runs on linux, mac and win. All works fine in linux and win but on mac the update fails. The mac version will download, verify the partial mar and ask the user to restart the app to apply the patch. When the user clicks restart the app shuts down but does not restart. if the user then starts the app they get a dialog box that says the patch failed, click here to download and install the complete patch. The app successfully downloads and verifies the complete mar but once again fails to apply it after the

treecell editable events ??

hi, does anybody know which events i can handle when a treecell is double clicked to edit and the edit mode is ended? i would like to do a validation of the newly inserted text. thanks, k.

loadURI stops working in xulrunner

I am converting an add-on to a xulrunner app. The xulrunner version is 1.9.1.4. The browser element is defined like this: <browser id="glider-hidden-browser" collapsed="true" /> This is the code: var browser = document.getElementById("glider-hidden-browser"); var url = "hello"; browser.loadURI(url); The last line produces this error message: ERROR: onDrop: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIContainerBoxObject.docShell]" nsresult: "0x8000ffff (NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content

how to open command line output

Hi, From an Addon I would like to run a comman line process to create a xml file. The xml file should be loaded into the FF browser tab after the command line process has finished. Could somebody help me how to do this. The problem is the command line process may take one or two seconds to create the xml file. The command line would look like this: application.jar input.source > output.xml How do I make sure the load process of output.xml is triggered after the comman line has finished to create the xml file? Regards, H

catch an event in the overlay.xul/js

Hi, i have done an toolbar for mozilla...overlay.xul (and ovrelay.js); I would like to run a function "carica()" at every page that is loaded in the browser... i have try with set collapsed(aValue) { if (aValue && this.mProgressBar.value != 100) { this.mProgressBar.value = 100; } carica(); }, but this function is loaded two times at every refresh and one time at every tab opened....

xul element height

I know I should know this but do you use computedstyle to determine the composed height of a template generated table ? <window> <box id="container" > <template code/> </box> </window> if I try to use ele.getcomputedstyle.getpropertyvalue('height') then all I get back is 'Auto'

privatebrowsing in xulrunner

Hi, as I understand, XULRunner isn't build with the privatebrowsing- interfaces. Currently in my application there always appears an warning + error message in the error console, because a function in globalOverlay.js does try to access the nsIPrivateBrowsingService. What about creating ifdefs for disabling/enabling functions which try to access privatebrowsing interfaces? To reproduce: * Use XULRunner 1.9.2 or newer * Open Error Console via window.open("chrome://global/content/ console.xul", "_blank", "chrome,extrachrome,menubar,resizable,scrollbars,status,toolbar"); * Close

Adding drag and drop behaviour on the fly.

Hello. I'm adding toolbarbuttons on palette dinamically and want them to support drag and drop. All works just fine when I use static buttons with draggesture attribute. But I did not succeed in adding it dinamically after document.createElement("toolbarbutton"); I read previous posts regarding adding event on parent container object and then determine where user clicked on but this doesn't look as best approach. So is there any way to add this draggesture handler dynamically? Thanks, Artem.

Changing broadcaster group="sidebar"

Hi! I have an overlay where my app is declared as a sidebar but I would like to change it's appearance so it would look like the zotero plugin, for example. This is my code now: <broadcasterset id="mainBroadcasterSet"> <broadcaster id="app_id" label="app_name" type="checkbox" group="sidebar" sidebarurl="chrome://app/content/app.xul" siderbarTitle="title_app" oncommand="toggleSidebar('app_id');"/> </broadcasterset> Does anybody knows another value for group so I can change t

Problem printing XUL in XULrunner

I need to print a window (or iframe) in a XULrunner standalone app. I have tried using: document.getElementById("main-iframe").contentWindow.print(); where the "main-frame" element is an iframe. It only works if the source of the iframe is an HTML document (either on the web, or on the local computer). If the source of the iframe is a XUL document, it returns the following error: We are unable to print or print preview this page Is this by design? Are XUL windows un-printable? I can't find any specific reference to this behaviour, either in Google or on deve

Accessing the contents of a browser tag

Thanks to everyone in advance - I have a xul window that I am loading via firefox for testing that has a browser tag inside of it. When I do something like: alert(document.getElementById ("mybrowser").contentDocument.getElementsByTagName("title")[0]); I get a security permission error "Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to create wrapper for object of class UnnamedClass" I have firebug and proceeded to try and track down via the dom dump another access point to the document loaded inside of the browser tag, but was unsuccessful - any suggestions? Thanks, Sam

getcharPref and german umlaut

Hi, i have some problems. i'm writing a extension and therefore i need a path. when i save a path with an "=F6" (e.g. d:\test\t=F6st") over setCharPref, i can see the correct path in the pref.js. but when i use getCharPref and put it into an alert, i see "D:\test\t=C3=B6st" where is the problem? thanks in advance steff

Prevent Firefox from using dropped data as a URL

I'm running Firefox 3.5.4 on Windows Vista. We have developed an addon the UI of which sits inside a popup. I'm implementing a function that will allow users to drag the UI window to any place on the browser, using the XUL drag and drop functionality. The problem is that the drag and dragover functions work correctly, but the browser takes over the drop and puts my data into the URL bar. I actually don't need to transfer any data -- I just need to get the mouse coordinates of the place where the dragged window is dropped. But if I don't transfer any data, the drag doesn't

Confused with editor.textContent

Hi, My code is like this: var myButton= this.getElementById("myButton"); var myEditor = this.editor.getEditor (this.editor.contentWindow).rootElement; myEditor.textContent = myButton.label; But now,the texts in the editor cannot be deleted any more except that I input some letters in the editor. I am confused with it~ Do you have some ideas about it? How should I make the backspace available at that time~ Thank you~

xul editor not showing inserted images

Hi, I am developing a Thunderbird addon. As it needed a rich text area, I - created an XUL editor element in a window - set its editortype to "html" in the window.onload() function - set its designMode to "on" in the window.onload() function I also created a toolbar of buttons like bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, indent, outdent, left-justify, right-justify, link, image etc.. But when the image-button in the toolbar is clicked and an image is selected, the image is not loaded in the editor, although the place holder and the alternate text appear in it. 1. Initiall

Updating a JavaScript module (jsm)

Hi, I'm not sure whether my Question belongs to the JavaScript engine or to XulRunner. When updating a JavaScript module (jsm file) of a XulRunner application (not of XulRunner it self) what must be done to make it work? Is this similar to components, where I have to touch a magic .autoreg file, or is there an other mechanism for JavaScript modules? Updating the file and just restarting the application is not enough. The application still sees the old implementation of the JavaScript module. So the cache seems to live longer than XulRunner is running. Touching the .autor

Overlays for Firefox and Seamonkey

Firebug overlays Firefox to add its functionality. SeaMonkey would like to use Firebug. The Firefox and SeaMonkey XUL structure is similar but different. For example: <!-- Firefox View menu --> <menupopup id="menu_viewPopup"> ... <!-- SeaMonkey View menu --> <menupopup id="menu_View_Popup"> ... My question is: how to add SeaMonkey XUL support. Bug 525638 proposes to simply have both overlay elements in the .xul file, I suppose because the non-matching one in either case will just fail to match and be ignored. Or fail to match an

Opening XUL files zipped in a jar file

Hello everybody, I'm developing a web application that regulates the access to some data stored as jar files. Each jar file contains two data file and a xul file, which use the data within the same jar file. In Firefox 2.x everything works fine when addressing the xul file with the jar protocol, and the all directory structure (e.g. jar:http//localhost/directory/file.jar!dir1/dir2/xulFile.xul ). Specifically, when addressing a xul file in that way, I automatically get the execution of the xul file. Differently, upgrading to Firefox 3.5, when addressing the xul file in the ident

My XULRunner tutorial

Hello all, I've been working on a [novice] XULRunner tutorial in my spare time. Because I am a super-noob with XUL and XULRunner, don't expect this to be mind-blowing or perfect. I am currently looking for ideas, suggestions, and criticisms for this little pet project. I started writing this to teach myself the basics of XULRunner and get into the groove of development with the platform. I'm hoping it could also be useful for other newcomers! Currently, two parts are written. I am planning for a third part at the moment (as soon as I can actually finish doing what I wil

Catching window.open() calls in xul/js

Hello, I'm writing a XUL application designed to run full screen, and therefore need to catch any javascript window.open() calls to open them in the current window. I've tried to set the window browserDOMWindow to a nsIBrowserDOMWindow object and listening for openURI, but the openURI method is not being called. Is this the right path to be going down? Are there any tricks to getting the nsIBrowserDOMWindow object set up? Is there an easier way to capture open calls from javascript? Thanks in advance, -Brad