Browser Plugins

brazilnut · 06-22-2008, 05:59 AM

Hi, im wanting to find a starting point for a plugin (for firefox to start with), but all i can find is stuff for addons... can anyone show me an example please?

XavierP · 06-22-2008, 06:33 AM

Programming Firefox may be what you are after. You could also look here: http://www.rietta.com/firefox/Tutorial/env.html

What sort of plugin do you want to make?

brazilnut · 06-22-2008, 06:52 AM

i've been looking through sourceforge for a simple svg plugin, but they all seem to have gone commercial.

basically im after being able to embed objects and draw to them, similar to svg or flash.

XavierP · 06-22-2008, 09:25 AM

Plugger may be what you're after, but I don't use either Plugger or SVG, so I could be wrong.

brazilnut · 06-22-2008, 10:09 AM

i'm miles away...

i found this, but keep getting compile errors, and i seem to be stuck on one at the moment... as far as i can tell i have all the packages installed, here's my config thing:

Code:

. $topsrcdir ../obj-debug
mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@
ac_add_options --disable-tests
ac_add_options --enable-application=browser
mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
ac_add_options --enable-debug
ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --disable-freetype2 --enable-xft
ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo
ac_add_options --x-includes=/usr/include/X11/ --x-libraries=/usr/lib/ --with-x

and this is the tail of make's output:

Code:

../../dist/lib/libgkconcvs_s.a(nsCanvasRenderingContext2D.o): In function `nsCanvasRenderingContext2D::Destroy()':
/home/ai/z_firefox_dev/sdk/obj-debug/content/canvas/src/../../../../mozilla/content/canvas/src/nsCanvasRenderingContext2D.cpp:568: undefined reference to `XFreePixmap'
../../dist/lib/libgkconcvs_s.a(nsCanvasRenderingContext2D.o): In function `nsCanvasRenderingContext2D::SetDimensions(int, int)':
/home/ai/z_firefox_dev/sdk/obj-debug/content/canvas/src/../../../../mozilla/content/canvas/src/nsCanvasRenderingContext2D.cpp:823: undefined reference to `XRenderFindStandardFormat'
/home/ai/z_firefox_dev/sdk/obj-debug/content/canvas/src/../../../../mozilla/content/canvas/src/nsCanvasRenderingContext2D.cpp:826: undefined reference to `XListPixmapFormats'
/home/ai/z_firefox_dev/sdk/obj-debug/content/canvas/src/../../../../mozilla/content/canvas/src/nsCanvasRenderingContext2D.cpp:833: undefined reference to `XFree'
/home/ai/z_firefox_dev/sdk/obj-debug/content/canvas/src/../../../../mozilla/content/canvas/src/nsCanvasRenderingContext2D.cpp:838: undefined reference to `XCreatePixmap'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[3]: *** [libgklayout.so] Error 1
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ai/z_firefox_dev/sdk/obj-debug/layout/build'
gmake[2]: *** [libs] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ai/z_firefox_dev/sdk/obj-debug/layout'
gmake[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ai/z_firefox_dev/sdk/obj-debug'
make: *** [default] Error 2

this'll prolly be obvious but...

osor · 06-22-2008, 09:31 PM

Somehow, I don’t think you have the correct headers being included. For starters (and making sure your build environment is correct) I recommend the “NPAPI Hello World!” (available here).