Posts tagged Development

Favicon for Firefox addons

If you creating Mozilla Firefox addon and your extension should be available in a tab not only in a standalone window you probably want to have favicon visible for it. Here is a tiny trick how to do it: place XHTML namespace to the root tag of your XUL document <window xmlns=“http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul“ xmlns:html=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml“ windowtype=“xpcomviewer“ id=“xpcomviewer“ [...]

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The best editor for IDL files?

Whenever I’ve edited my IDL files which defining components in Mozilla applications I never seen any outline in all editors I’m commonly using (Komodo Edit, Eclipse, NetBeans etc.) but than I’ve tried Geany (where I switch accidentally document type to C# language) and see what I’ve got :

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Returning array of components

As I worked on next version of Boogie I encountered a really big problem with returning of an array of instances of my components returned from another component’s method. Here is the introduction: I have component odIBoogieDatatypeProject and also component odIBoogieDbService where is method getProjects(aWhere) which should returns array of all projects which matching given [...]

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