Thanks for the information guys..... I will go through those links and come back with more questions ... By any chance, is there already a sample extension on how to include C+ + in our extension via the NPAPI ??
On Aug 17, 11:07 pm, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:05 PM, The Sailor<[email protected]> wrote: > > I am new to chromium extensions ..till now I have played around a bit > > with content scripts and am amazed with the power it provides. > > I'm happy to hear that! > > > I have worked a bit on FireFox and IE extensios earlier and am > > interested in developing an extension for the chrome. > > Developing extensions for Chrome is going to be quite a bit different > than either of those two platforms. It will help you somewhat if you > forget what you know from IE and Firefox add-on development. > > > I had few questions regarding this: > > > 1. From what I understood, the chromium extension development is > > mainly aimed at making extension development easy for web developers > > and can be done only using HTML and javascript. Is this right ? > > That is true. There are far more web developers in the world than C++ > developers, so this made sense to us. Also we really like web > technologies, on the whole. > > > Is there some library (similar to the mozilla gecko library) which will > > help us develop extensions using C++ ? > > It is possible to include C++ in extensions via NPAPI, but that C++ > will only have access to: > > a) The underlying platform (win32, posix, carbon, etc) > b) The NPAPI interface > (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko_Plugin_API_Reference) > c) The DOM via NPObject (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/NPObject) > > This is not the same thing that Gecko provides, which is deep access > to the browser internals for C++ programs. Chrome extensions don't > have that and likely won't ever (providing deep access to the browser > internals would be a large burden to maintain, and we think you can > get a pretty large bang for the buck just by providing a place for > extension developers to plug into the UI in more well-defined ways). > > > 2. Can I make the toolstrip button to behave like a toolbar button and > > get to open some form menu on clicking the button on the toolstrip ? > > There is no way to open dropdown menus if that's what you mean. But we > are working on some new features that will let you expand toolstrips > vertically to get more space. Keep your eyes peeled, we'll post here > when there's more working. > > - a --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
