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.
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Is Chrome Dev Tools available only through Chrome extensions? Or is there a way we can use it, for instance, as a library from a JS standalone file?
Update
Chrome DevTools Frontend is now an NPM package that you can take advantage of. It is based from the new DevTools sub-repo in Blink. So you can easily pull in the DevTools assets and keep then up-dated without much work.
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It depends on what you want exactly. You can dig in and rip out bits of the frontend to use. Like Betwixt by Konrad pulls the network panel design out and plugs it up to an OS interceptor. So you can use the network panel you know and love to debug any app on your desktop.
Now, can you easily do this kind of stuff. Even keeping it auto-updated? No, not really. It is fairly complicated and you need to be able to handle ripping the stuff out yourself. That being said, if you want a challenge then the code is open to everyone.
I'd say that the first sentence on the About website is pretty clear:
... built into Google Chrome.
So officially, by Google, it's only for Chrome. It's part of Chrome, not a standalone library. Issues linked to DevTools are part of Chromium, where people can contribute.
I would like to disable a read more plugin ( cutof content) in all pages except my main menu pages in joomla
How do I do this
Thanks in advance
I'm not aware of any method that allows for the actual disabling of a plugin for certain pages. Plugins are either on or off, site-wide. This can be seen from the Extensions | Plugin Manager, as well as the SQL database: jos_plugins. With that said, what would be the purpose in disabling a plugin for certain pages? Most plugins, especially those like a "readmore" are typically setup to be activated by a simple code sequence, such as {readmore}path/file.htm{/readmore} and consequently, you can turn the plugin "off" by simply choosing to not use it. Most plugins of that nature provide very little more than essentially "coded access to a CSS class". If you could be more specific on why you need to actually disable the plugin for certain pages, perhaps we'd be better equipped to answer properly.
Depending on the plugin, you could feasibly remove the event trigger that would set the plugin to run, thought it would not be advisable since it would stop that trigger for all plugins and could cause unintended effects.
I am not sure what you mean by "Read more" plugin. You can turn the read more text on and off as a setting in the menu item parameters or in the article itself. Have you tied that?
I need to write a web browser plugin that supports IE 7+, Firefox 3+, Chrome.
This plugin has to be able to place a DirectX object in a web page.
I have no experience with plugins.
I did some investigating and decided to do it with FireBreath.
I couldn't understand the way to place an image inside the plugin area. Can someone provide example?
How do I place a DirectX object there? Any example?
How do I trigger automatic installation?
Thanks!
Sara
Well, there are two problems you have to solve. Understanding of plugins is really the easier one at this point, since have FireBreath to help you. Gosh, whoever wrote that must have been brilliant! (okay, it was me, so I had to say it)
The first thing to understand is that you don't "place" a "DirectX object" anywhere. You don't "place" an image inside the plugin. Rather, you draw the image to a window just like in any other windows application.
You may want to pull up my answer to another similar question: Directx control in browser plugin
In a normal plugin instance on windows (a "windowed" plugin) you will be given an HWND that you can draw to. You need to set up a DirectX context in that window and draw to it -- either at framerate that your application needs or just when a RefreshEvent comes. If you follow the link about you'll see a link to a post on colonelpanic.net on drawing in windows; that should help you understand better how you get the HWND.
Images are basically the same deal; if you have image data, you can draw it to the HWND using normal windows drawing APIs.
Finally, if you need additional help I highly recommend you pop into the FireBreath IRC chat room. I'm usually around during daylight hours (GMT-0600) on weekdays and there are others who can sometimes help as well.
As of 2021 there is way to make plugins that will work in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, see Web Extension (browser plugin) for Chrome, Firefox, Safari standard reference and tools (2021)
My client has asked me to make a WordPress Plugin that people must purchase. Therefore, it is not put into the WordPress.org plugin repository and is not updatable by default from the Plugins menu in wp-admin.
Is there a best practice way for making the plugin updatable? As in, showing an update on the dashboard, plugin options panel, and Plugins page. When clicked, it automatically upgrades the source code without one having to go through a series of steps. How would you suggest this would work, and do you have any code snippets to explain the process?
I think the best code snippets are in the WordPress code itself. See how they do it, and duplicate it with your plugin. Basically, they send some information about your installed themes and plugins to an server, which responds back with updates if there are any. You can remove your plugin from the list that is sent to WordPress if you want to keep this info to yourself.
I looked on CKEditor's website and I noticed that there's no plugins documentation yet.
But I'm wondering if there is any anywhere else?
I'd like to make a little plugin to add youtube video from CKEditor. Pretty simple plugin but still I'd like to know how to make it.
Documentation is sparse at the moment, but not completely non-existent.
Check out my CKEDitor link survival pack from a previous question.
As a starting point, you may want to copy and use one of the existing plugins (the unpacked ones from the _source directory, of course).
The symbols plugin is extremely simple but shows the basic points of inserting HTML into the editor
The links plugin may be a good starting point for how to add input fields, tabs, and make them interact (If you want to go the road of understanding CKEditor's highly sophisticated dialog layout system, that is. My cup of tea, it wasn't. You may want to just set up an Iframe dialog, and do everything by yourself).
Since this question was first posted, CK has added documentation for creating plugins - http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_3.x/Tutorials/Abbr_Plugin_Part_1