Loading Search Plugins
Greg Marine
I have implemented my own way of using search engines much like
Firefox. I would like to change from my implementation to the way
Firefox does it so any search plugin created for my application or
Firefox can run on both. Does anyone have an idea of how this works or
at least pointers to where I can find more info on how Firefox
implements search plugins?
Thank you and God Bless <><
Greg
Gavin Sharp
Firefox's search service has recently been moved ito the toolkit on
the development trunk and 1.9.1 branch, which means you'll be able to
use it out-of-the-box in XULRunner 1.9.1 and later. The code now lives
at http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/components/search/
(that's a link to the "trunk" mozilla-central code, which is currently
identical to the 1.9.1 code, and not much different than what shipped
in Firefox 3). If you're interested in using it in a XULRunner
application running on an older XULRunner (e.g. 1.9 or 1.8), you might
want to consider just copying it into your application - it's pretty
self contained. API documentation is available in
nsIBrowserSearchService.idl .
Gavin
Greg Marine
> Firefox's search service has recently been moved ito the toolkit on
> the development trunk and 1.9.1 branch, which means you'll be able to
> use it out-of-the-box in XULRunner 1.9.1 and later. The code now lives
> (that's a link to the "trunk" mozilla-central code, which is currently
> identical to the 1.9.1 code, and not much different than what shipped
> in Firefox 3). If you're interested in using it in a XULRunner
> application running on an older XULRunner (e.g. 1.9 or 1.8), you might
> want to consider just copying it into your application - it's pretty
> self contained. API documentation is available in
> nsIBrowserSearchService.idl .
>
> Gavin
Thank you Gavin! I appreciate this!
Greg