You should be able to do anything Firebug can doe from an Firebug extension (since both are Firefox extensions).
Part of the security system in Firefox is a "wrapper" around web pages. Unfortunately this wrapper has a seriously undesirable property: write operations on the wrapper don't always write-operate on the page and you get no feedback to let you know. jjb On Dec 9, 10:50 am, "Adam Peller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi John. > > Okay, you just gave me answers to what I've been trying to deduce > myself, and I've yet to master the extension dev cycle -- the > dev.mozilla article mentions putting a ref file under some guid from > the install.rdf, which does not seem to exist, etc. > > I was hoping to be able to add certain functionality to the page (I > acknowledge the security risk to doing this) without directly > modifying firebug. I was basically trying to mimic what was done in > firebug.js/consoleAPI.js, but I may have missed something. If it were > a security issue, I would have expected an exception, but it just > modified the window element without any impact. I'm not sure I > understand what's going on. > > So my experiment to modify the page from an extension is not going to > work. I'll start hacking directly on firebug. > > -Adam > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:18 PM, John J Barton > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I suggest you read the console.js/commandLine.js code first. You > > basically can't write into the page from the extension. > > > For dev cycle you will want to link your source directory from the > > extension directory for your dev profile. The readme.txt is a good > > place to start.... > >http://code.google.com/p/fbug/source/browse/branches/readme.txt > > > jjb > > > On Dec 9, 9:10 am, "Adam Peller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Cougar :) > > >> Well, I'm writing a FF3 extension that adds a panel to Firebug, based > >> on the FirePHP example. Firebug.Module has a method called > >> watchWindow, and firebug.js apparenly can add properties directly to > >> win (like the "console" object) so I was merely trying to do the same. > >> Calling the wrappedObject doesn't seem to work. I'd sprinkle some > >> alerts in there to see if there even is a wrapped object, but the dev > >> cycle is painfully slow for me thus far. I know I shouldn't be doing > >> this, but I'm re-installing the plugin. (The instructions for working > >> around this method are not clear to me) Why is it that the > >> 'uninstall' only seems to work about 1 time out of every 10 times I try? > > >> -Adam > > >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:17 AM, LiuCougar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Hi peller :) > > >> > I think you are talking about extension for FF3 > > >> > change it to this: > >> > watchWindow: function(context, win){ > >> > win.wrappedJSObject.testing="123"; > >> > } > > >> > and it should work just fine > > >> > liucougar > > >> > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 22:01, Adam Peller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> >> I am a n00b at extensions writing. I took the simple Test Panel demo > >> >> and tried adding the following code to the FirebugTestExtension > >> >> module: > > >> >> watchWindow: function(context, win){ > >> >> win.testing="123"; > >> >> } > > >> >> I've confirmed in my extension code (with alerts -- dump didn't seem > >> >> to send anything to my MacOS terminal window) that the method is > >> >> getting called and win.testing is being set, each time a window is > >> >> created. However, from the page, window.testing is undefined. > > >> >> What am I missing? Is this a different window reference than the one > >> >> that is my global? > > >> > -- > >> > 生于忧患，死于安乐 > >> > "People's characters are strengthened through struggle against > >> > difficulties; they are weakened by comfort." > >> > - Old Chinese adage --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" 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/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
