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Re: FireBreath Tips: Asynchronous Javascript Calls

taxilian — Thu, 03 May 2012 01:20:50 -0000

Of course it works on Mac. Looks like you're trying to pass a non-const reference (FB::JSObjectPtr& instead of constr FB::JSObjectPtr&). That won't work. In the future, stackoverflow.com is a much better place to ask these questions; I monitor the firebreath tag, so I'll see it.

Re: FireBreath Tips: Asynchronous Javascript Calls

Landbird — Wed, 02 May 2012 22:10:30 -0000

Hi, thanks for the thread example!
My plugin works fine in Windows, but I got an error in make_method when I compile it in Mac Xcode 4.2.1.
The error message is "MethodConverter.h:115: error: invalid initialization of non-const reference of type 'FB::JSObjectPtr&' from a temporary of type 'boost::shared_ptr<fb::jsobject>'"
Can't I use it in Mac?</fb::jsobject>

Re: Jenkins on Mac OS X; git w/ ssh public key

Colin — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:57:41 -0000

Thank you so much for this post!! been trying to get this working all day and finally got it running by following your install guide.

Re: Jenkins on Mac OS X; git w/ ssh public key

Roni Yaniv — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:45:05 -0000

You may want to update this post to reflect the fact that the current OSX installer allows custom installation where the user is called jenkins by default.

Re: UPDATED: Terminal Nirvana with TotalTerminal (Snow Leopard, Lion)

Jarom Loveridge — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:07:41 -0000

For those of you on OS X Lion. If you want to setup your Visor to open via [COMMAND]+[ESC] just follow these additional steps. (You can thank Apple for making it impossible to set this hot key directly.)

1. Quit TotalTerminal
(if it is running)

2. open ~/Library/Preferences/VisorTerminal.plist. for editing

3. Set the value of TotalTerminalShortcuts->ToggleVisor->KeyCode to 53

4. Set the value of TotalTerminalShortcuts->ToggleVisor->Modifiers to 1048840

5. Save your plist

6. Launch TotalTerminal

7. Enjoy having your [COMMAND]+[ESC] Visor hot key

Re: Detecting the version of an ActiveX IE Browser plugin

jack — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 04:16:41 -0000

very thank you for your post!

Re: Browser Plugins vs Extensions – the difference

Nicolas Sampietro — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 11:10:29 -0000

I like FireBreath, can I use QT instead of XCode for mac?

Re: Firefox 3.6 has removed support for XPCOM plugins!

Stefano — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:53:46 -0000

it's not userfriendly to develop addon's in xpcom- .xpt since it lacks transparency to examine the compiled code for the normal user. its been used to sniff data or make (il)legal) requests against privacy policy. but you old farts maybe just not capable to learn something to do a new way.

Re: Building a firefox plugin – part three

DavidJamel — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:58:52 -0000

thank you for this tutorial,

NPAPI is what can help me to create an API to communicate a webkit browser
with application C / C + + external.

thank you

Re: Jenkins on Mac OS X; git w/ ssh public key

airportyh — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:59:27 -0000

Very helpful! Thank you.

Re: jQuery Deferred Objects – Part 2

taxilian — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:51:33 -0000

Good catch; sorry I misunderstood =] Actually, since we wrote this article we've learned a new technique -- the jquery Deferred.pipe method, which is awesome. I have updated the post to use that instead of manually creating more deferred objects

Re: jQuery Deferred Objects – Part 2

Simon Ebner — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:38:08 -0000

Sorry for the confusion. I didn't quite point out what line I was referring to. You seem to have two return statements in the second example of the "One small problem" section. So "dfdResult.promise();" is never reached.

Re: jQuery Deferred Objects – Part 2

taxilian — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:08:15 -0000

Actually no, that line reads exactly as it should, and it will execute correctly. We want to return the result of the $.ajax call, but we also want to cache it in case any future calls are made for the same resource, thus we store the result to cacheA[key] and return the result of that assignment (which works just fine; the result of an assignment statement is the value that was assigned. Same reason that 'a = b = c = 5;' works and will assign 5 to all three variables.

Re: jQuery Deferred Objects – Part 2

Simon Ebner — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:55:11 -0000

Thanks for the great article! However, there seems to be a small typo in the extended cache example. I think the line "return cacheA[key] = ..." is supposed to be "cacheA[key] = ..."

Re: The best JavaScript stack I have ever used

Nate — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:15:24 -0000

I've just been coming to the same conclusion when it comes to javascript stacks. Looking forward to the next installment when you talk about Backbone.

Re: Browser Plugins vs Extensions – the difference

Anupam — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:26:50 -0000

thanks for the clarification...

Re: Jenkins on Mac OS X; git w/ ssh public key

Jason Nerothin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:02:47 -0000

For any git users out there, I had to use sudo to copy over a .gitconfig file into the _jenkins user's home directory. Then it worked :)

Re: FireBreath Tips: Drawing on Windows

taxilian — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:15:08 -0000

FireBreath supports A) anything you want to draw in an object tag and B) anything you can do safely with javascript. Unforunately, there is no "safe" way to send binary data from a plugin to javascript (no cross-browser binary data types exist) and so it's difficult to render to a canvas object. video tags would require tapping into the browser, so NPAPI plugins can't do that -- they only know about the page.

Re: FireBreath Tips: Drawing on Windows

Amkaul — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:45:31 -0000

Does Firbreath support drawing or playing on <canvas> or <video> ?</video></canvas>

Re: Downgrading Erlang macports to R13B04

Clayton Cafiero — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 09:48:52 -0000

Thanks

Re: backbone.js attaching multiple Routers to the same route

taxilian — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:13:31 -0000

We were originally having unrelated parts of the program manage different areas of the page, but ended up revising that to have a router that handled multiple areas, so we didn't need this any more.

Re: backbone.js attaching multiple Routers to the same route

Andreas Köberle — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:16:51 -0000

What was the reason not to use multiple routers?

Re: Building a firefox plugin – part one

taxilian — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:59:20 -0000

Yes, you can bundle a NPAPI plugin in a chrome extension. This blog post is applicable to all npapi plugins. Do some searching, particularly on sites like stackoverflow.com; this is not the place to ask questions.

Re: Building a firefox plugin – part one

escapitot — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 02:32:01 -0000

Hi,

I am trying to build a Chrome Extension. I have read that you can bundle NPAPI to your extension. I just don't know how to begin with. Can this be applicable?

Re: Building a firefox plugin – part two

taxilian — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:00:01 -0000

You seem to be misunderstanding what FireBreath is. FireBreath is not an alternate method for creating browser plugins; FireBreath plugins *are* NPAPI plugins. They are also ActiveX controls. Thus even if you don't want to use FireBreath for your plugin, it is still the best example I can give you of a working NPAPI plugin.