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Chen Zhiyuan

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Nov 13, 2006, 7:48:23 AM11/13/06
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Anyone give me a hand?

Can Extesions create an global shortcut key or create an icon on system
tray in Windows, and react to the user input? How to do it?

Nickolay Ponomarev

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Nov 13, 2006, 9:48:10 AM11/13/06
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On 13 Nov 2006 04:48:23 -0800, Chen Zhiyuan <gsm.che...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone give me a hand?
>
> Can Extesions create an global shortcut key

Not without binary components afaik.

> or create an icon on system
> tray in Windows, and react to the user input?

Not without binary components. This one is being worked on, though.

Nickolay

Chen Zhiyuan

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Nov 13, 2006, 11:00:02 AM11/13/06
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Thank you Nickolay.
did you mean that, I have to do it by myself? It will be very complex
for install and porting the components to different OS platform. My
intention is to port it easily with firefox in different platform.
If you think it is a must, would you please give me some ABC about
developing a C++ Components and make it working with extension of
firefox?

it is really nice of you.

On 11月13日, 下午4时48分, "Nickolay Ponomarev"
<asquee...@gmail.com> wrote:


> On 13 Nov 2006 04:48:23 -0800, Chen Zhiyuan <gsm.chenzhiy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Anyone give me a hand?
>

> > Can Extesions create an global shortcut keyNot without binary components afaik.


>
> > or create an icon on system

> > tray in Windows, and react to the user input?Not without binary components. This one is being worked on, though.
>
> Nickolay

Nickolay Ponomarev

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Nov 13, 2006, 11:23:22 AM11/13/06
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On 13 Nov 2006 08:00:02 -0800, Chen Zhiyuan <gsm.che...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Nickolay.
> did you mean that, I have to do it by myself? It will be very complex
> for install and porting the components to different OS platform.

True.

> My
> intention is to port it easily with firefox in different platform.

Then you could submit a patch to firefox and distribute your extension
with the next version of it.

> If you think it is a must, would you please give me some ABC about
> developing a C++ Components and make it working with extension of
> firefox?
>

Look for Creating XPCOM component tutorials/examples/books/whatever suits you.

This bug has a patch supporting tray icon from XUL on Windows:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325353

Nickolay

> it is really nice of you.
>
>
>
> On 11月13日, 下午4时48分, "Nickolay Ponomarev"
> <asquee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 13 Nov 2006 04:48:23 -0800, Chen Zhiyuan <gsm.chenzhiy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone give me a hand?
> >
> > > Can Extesions create an global shortcut keyNot without binary components afaik.
> >
> > > or create an icon on system
> > > tray in Windows, and react to the user input?Not without binary components. This one is being worked on, though.
> >
> > Nickolay
>

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