Your First Xulrunner-based application

Your ﬁrst XULrunner-based application Daniel Glazman Disruptive Innovations MAOW Berlin 28-mar-2009

Your ﬁrst XULrunner-based application What is XULrunner • in short, Firefox without all its chrome • more correctly, a runtime for Gecko and the toolkit MAOW Berlin 28-mar-2009 -- Daniel Glazman 2

Your ﬁrst XULrunner-based application Downloads • You don’t need to build XULrunner if you already have Firefox 3 and limit yourself to chrome firefox -app path/to/application.ini • or download and unzip XULrunner from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/xulrunner/releases/ MAOW Berlin 28-mar-2009 -- Daniel Glazman 3

Your ﬁrst XULrunner-based application Structure Top dir chrome content main.xul chrome.manifest defaults preferences prefs.js application.ini MAOW Berlin 28-mar-2009 -- Daniel Glazman 4

Your ﬁrst XULrunner-based application application.ini • very simple ﬁle declaring your app’s metadata [App] Name=MyFirstApp Vendor=My Own Organization Version=0.1 BuildID=20090328 ID=myfirstapp@myownorg.org Copyright= Copyright 2009 My Own Organization [Gecko] MinVersion=1.9 MaxVersion=1.9.0.* MAOW Berlin 28-mar-2009 -- Daniel Glazman 5

Your first XULrunner-based application Basic chrome.manifest • basically a mapping between chrome:// URLs and the filesystem content myfirstapp file:content/ • you can also package and compress the files creating a jar content myfirstapp jar:myfirstapp.jar!/content/ MAOW Berlin 28-mar-2009 -- Daniel Glazman 6

Your ﬁrst XULrunner-based application More chrome.manifest • add a skin skin myfirstapp classic/1.0 jar:myfirstapp.jar!/skin/ • add a locale locale myfirstapp en-US jar:myfirstapp.jar!/locale/en-US/ MAOW Berlin 28-mar-2009 -- Daniel Glazman 7

Your ﬁrst XULrunner-based application app’s preferences pref(quot;toolkit.defaultChromeURLquot;, quot;chrome://myfirstapp/content/main.xulquot;); • prefs for debugging • prefs for user-agent or cache • prefs for extension manager and XPInstall • prefs for protocol handlers • prefs for preferences window :-) MAOW Berlin 28-mar-2009 -- Daniel Glazman 8

Your ﬁrst XULrunner-based application Your main window <?xml version=quot;1.0quot;?> <?xml-stylesheet href=quot;chrome://global/skin/quot; type=quot;text/cssquot;?> <?xml-stylesheet href=quot;chrome://myfirstapp/skin/main.cssquot; type=quot;text/cssquot;?> <!DOCTYPE window SYSTEM quot;chrome://myfirstapp/locale/main.dtdquot;> <window id=quot;mainquot; title=quot;&window.title;quot; width=quot;600quot; height=quot;400quot; xmlns=quot;http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/ there.is.only.xulquot;> <label value=quot;Guten Tag Berlin !quot;/> <button label=quot;Dankequot; oncommand=quot;window.close();quot;/> </window> MAOW Berlin 28-mar-2009 -- Daniel Glazman 9

Your ﬁrst XULrunner-based application Running your app • Windows xulrunner.exe application.ini • Mac (with restrictions) /Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework/xulrunner-bin `pwd`/application.ini • Linux xulrunner application.ini MAOW Berlin 28-mar-2009 -- Daniel Glazman 10

Your first XULrunner-based application Package your app • Zip it into a *.app file • call xulrunner -install-app `pwd`/myfirstapp.zip • Installs inside c:Program Files or /Library on Mac MAOW Berlin 28-mar-2009 -- Daniel Glazman 11

Your ﬁrst XULrunner-based application More complex stuff • Add jsm modules • Add icon to application.ini • Add Venkman and Document Inspector • Build a single executable with xulrunner... • Update your app like Firefox... • Extensions management MAOW Berlin 28-mar-2009 -- Daniel Glazman 12

Your ﬁrst XULrunner-based application Links • https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner • https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner_tips • https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner/Deploying_XULRunner_1.8 • http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/XULRunner_Guide_Outline MAOW Berlin 28-mar-2009 -- Daniel Glazman 13

Your ﬁrst XULrunner-based application • Questions ? MAOW Berlin 28-mar-2009 -- Daniel Glazman 14

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