Let me detail what I'm trying to accomplish: I have an application that besides the specific app code and installer, also bundles a CrossRider browser extension. The problem is that my installer generates one entry in Programs & Features, while the CrossRider extension generates a different one.
Is there a way to show only my installer in the Programs & Features, and hide/have the CrossRider entry to be a part of my main installer?
Thank you,
Mihnea
I'm afraid there isn't an option to hide the Crossrider extension in the Control Panel.
However, if you open a Crossrider support ticket (email support#crossrider.com) the person who deals with such matters (who is away this week) will be happy to discuss any options we can consider implementing to assist you.
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After 2 years of development, our Eclipse RCP desktop application is finally finished. The last step in development is to allow the client to provide feedback on the wording and labels in the application.
There will be about 10 people providing feedback, but the client is willing to consolidate this before sending this to us for implementation.
My first idea is to provide a Google Form which requires them to upload a screenshot and to precisely specify where the text to be changed is located. I am now wondering whether a framework exists to do this automatically (i.e. press 'CTRL+ALT' and you can automatically draw a box around the offending text in the application.
In short: Are there any user feedback tools specifically designed to collect feedback on the wording in a GUI?
Mylyn includes some facilities to do (almost) exactly this. In a standard Eclipse, try Help -> Report Bug or Enhancement...
You use various org.eclipse.mylyn.tasks... extension points to specify things like product, area and bug template.
I've to create plugin or add-on for my official community site.
Requirement
There should be a button at browser, which should extend a form, which can add the current url as a bookmark with interaction from user with some more inputs, in turn that should be recorded into excel sheet in local drive. I've VBA code to extract data from the community url to excel sheet. Now, I've to create browser control to enable user direct url to fetch the data.
My control should be activated (i.e. toolbar button) based on url, so what should i create, a plugin or add-on ? i want my control not to affect browser performance or user experience.
Based on reply for 2, what tool should i use to create plugin/add-on which should be compatible across browsers ?
I've gone thro' Fire-breath demo, code capability with Visual studio, which was nice, but still missing some knowledge about visual studio, what to package of visual studio install and what language to use, it would be better if it is Visual basic ?
At last, is it possible to place control (i.e. button) inside the webpage to activate my code, if so, which one is capable of doing it, add-on or plugin ? workflow in nutshell to achieve that...
Thanks a lot
First, a few things to understand:
A browser plugin is something that is instantiated in one of two ways:
Injected into the DOM in an object or embed tag
Instantiated by the browser to open a page with a specific mimetype
Browser plugins don't know anything about the browser, the URL bar, the bookmarks, the context menus, browser dialogs, browser chrome, browser events, etc. Browser plugins only know anything about the current page. Browser plugins cannot change browser settings
Browser plugins are DLLs; they can't easily be written in Visual Basic. While it might be possible, I've never seen one, and you'd have to learn a lot about NPAPI plugins before you could do that. You'd also probably have to write one for IE, one for IE, etc.
In other words, what you need is not a plugin. Firebreath is not going to help you much, if at all. Some extensions (also called add-ons) use a npapi plugin to provide functionality that they cannot do on their own. For more information see http://npapi.com/extensions
With that information, I recommend you think about it and create a new, more specific question for what you need to know next. I don't know extensions, I do plugins. Actually, once you break down what you need to do into some smaller questions you'll probably find others who have ask most of them and you can find the answers with simple searches. Your main problem is that you don't yet understand the technologies you need to use. Hopefully this has helped.
I have built some utilities to be used exclusively by members of our small team. I want them to be available in the Google Apps global navigation, but I can't figure out how to do that without adding them to the Google Apps Marketplace.
Adding to the Marketplace is more complicated than it needs to be (the app I'm creating will never need a support URL, for instance), and I don't want to create a public Google Apps Marketplace vendor profile just for the sake of these small internal tools.
Is there another way?
Yes, you can use the Extensions console:
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/extensions-console/index
this allows you to specify just a manifest without needing to go through all the Marketplace work.
Jay
I would like to create an extension which adds a toolbar button in Thunderbird. When pressing the button, an external application is launched and the text of the current mail message is exported to that application.
Do you know about an extension which already do that? How to write that kind of extension? What should I study to be able to do it?
(I am a newbie to creating Mozilla extensions)
Unfortunately, extension development isn't friendly for beginners.
You may start with this link: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions/Thunderbird .
I'd recommend you to use Netbeans and foxbeans plugin to create extension's boilerplate project.
Also there is extension which every developer must have: Developer Assistant.
Now about inter-process communications. It's most tricky part. I see the only possible solution here. It is to create XPCOM component and implement all IPC there. It is long and hard story. You should be comfortable with C++ and you should be ready to spent more than a week for all this stuff...
My question is very simple: Is it possible to pack plugins into extensions for Safari? For instance, the exact NPAPI plugins which work on Google Chrome also work on Safari. However in Chrome I'm shipping the plugins as a part of an extension (a CRX package). This is needed because HTML and JavaScript is injected into a specific web page, and this code uses the plugins. I do not see an option in Extension Builder to specify plugin files and I haven't come across any proper documentation saying that plugins cannot be packed into extensions.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
The first comment:
I don't think that is supported. A workaround could be a custom installer that installs both the plugin and the extension. – Georg Fritzsche
This is the only possible way to do it! FYI: Apple guys are against the idea of extensions accessing native code (ie, plugins). An obvious security loop-hole, but a necessity here! :)