Sorry, I have never built an NPAPI plugin. Here is an example one of the Chrome developers gave some time ago, I think - http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/webkit/default_plugin/ <http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/webkit/default_plugin/> ☆PhistucK
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 18:52, Kasun Gajasinghe <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for the links. But I have faced some problems when I've gone > through above links. > > The first link is good but it focused on firefox extensions. So I have > to filter out the most part of it. And I don't know what are the > requirements the developed plugins should have in chrome. So please be > kind enough to fill the gap between that tutorial and Google Chrome > plugins. I think it will be very useful if we have a small sample of a > plugin developed for chrome as well. > > I am doing this as a project for a university course module. And I > don't have any previous experience in dealing with plugins DLLs/SOs. I > chose this project to give some contribution from my side to the open > source community. So any help on this is really appreciated. > > > > On Oct 30, 10:30 pm, PhistucK <[email protected]> wrote: > > NPAPI plugins are supposed to act like any normal software. These are > DLLs. > > The only difference is that it is invoked\triggered by the browser > through a > > certain API. > > Try these pages for reference and guidance - > https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Pluginshttp://gplflash.sourceforge.net/gplflash2_blog/npapi.html > > > > ☆PhistucK > > > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 19:15, Kasun Gajasinghe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Oh! Sorry to here that. Can you tell me if I use NPAPI, what kind of > > > scope it has? I mean what are the restrictions does it has in > > > accessing the file system and reading,writing? > > > Can you please explain it a bit? > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > On Oct 30, 6:16 pm, PhistucK <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > There are no plans to support a file system API for now. > > > > You can use NPAPI for interacting with the file system, but that is > C++ > > > > development and it would probably be complicated a little to save a > whole > > > > web page, with all of its nested resources. > > > > > > ☆PhistucK > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 08:24, Kasun Gajasinghe <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > I'm writing an extension that requires to save web pages in a given > > > > > folder (by user) in Local Hard Drive. > > > > > I want to know that whether the access to hard drive is restricted > for > > > > > extensions? If it's the case what options do I have to get this > done? > > > > > > > Any help will be deeply appreciated! > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
