Auto update extension from XULRunner

Alexander N. Treyner

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Mar 26, 2007, 4:38:14 AM3/26/07

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Hi,
I'm writing application using XULRunner 1.8.1 + extensions for it.
I got Extension Manager to work within XULRunner, and I'm able to update
installed Extensions from Extension Manager via right click on Extension
and "Find Update" command, but I don't understand under which condition
XULRunner will check for updates on opening my application (If it should).
I tried to play with next pref:
pref("extensions.update.interval", 60);

I supposed that interval measured in seconds, so should it check updates
every 60 seconds?

I got prompt saying "Update Found" only twice during 3 days that I work
with my application, but extension version changed dozens times.

Please help me figure out how it work,

Thanks,

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Alexander N. Treyner

Brian King

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Mar 26, 2007, 1:18:48 PM3/26/07

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Maybe I am stating the obvious, but just in case ...

There are a couple of other relevant prefs:

- extensions.update.enabled
- extensions.update.notifyUser

Have you turned these on?

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Mar 27, 2007, 12:33:53 AM3/27/07

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On Mar 26, 4:38 am, "Alexander N. Treyner" <a...@treyner.israel.net>
wrote:

Brain pointed out some preferences you'll need to turn on. You might
need more. You will may alos need to use "branding" DTD
and .properties files (if your displaying the extension manager UI).
More information here:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner_tips

Mark Finkle

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Mar 27, 2007, 12:35:43 AM3/27/07

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>
> Brain pointed out some preferences you'll need to turn on. You might
> need more. You will may alos need to use "branding" DTD
> and .properties files (if your displaying the extension manager UI).
> More information here:http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner_tips

s/Brain/Brian

Although, I know Brian has a brain

Alexander N. Treyner

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Mar 27, 2007, 3:59:11 AM3/27/07

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notifyUser was missed for me, but when I added it - I still have no
automatic update. Only manual. Here my prefs:

// Extension
pref("xpinstall.enabled", true);
pref("xpinstall.dialog.confirm",
"chrome://mozapps/content/xpinstall/xpinstallConfirm.xul");
pref("xpinstall.dialog.progress.skin",
"chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul?type=themes");
pref("xpinstall.dialog.progress.chrome",
"chrome://mozapps/content/extensions/extensions.xul?type=extensions");
pref("xpinstall.dialog.progress.type.skin", "Extension:Manager-themes");
pref("xpinstall.dialog.progress.type.chrome",
"Extension:Manager-extensions");
pref("extensions.update.enabled", true);
pref("extensions.update.notifyUser",true);
//pref("extensions.update.interval", 86400);
pref("extensions.update.interval", 60);
pref("extensions.dss.enabled", false);
pref("extensions.dss.switchPending", false);
pref("extensions.ignoreMTimeChanges", false);
pref("extensions.logging.enabled", false);
pref("general.skins.selectedSkin", "classic/1.0");
// NB these point at AMO
pref("extensions.update.url",
"chrome://mozapps/locale/extensions/extensions.properties");
pref("extensions.getMoreExtensionsURL",
"chrome://mozapps/locale/extensions/extensions.properties");
pref("extensions.getMoreThemesURL",
"chrome://mozapps/locale/extensions/extensions.properties");

Thanks,
Alex

Brian King

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Mar 27, 2007, 5:45:30 PM3/27/07

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Which seems to correlate with :

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner_tips#Extension_Manager

I've not done this (yet), so I would just be speculating otherwise.

Alexander N. Treyner

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Mar 28, 2007, 12:04:04 PM3/28/07

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Could you point me which step I should do (in general) in order to
get/create mechanism for auto update. I tried to figure out how it work
in Firefox, but quickly get lost.

Thanks,

Alex.