On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 03:38:46AM -0800, shamju joseph wrote: > Hi, > Please excuse me for sending this mail to gnash > dev list. > I posted these doubts many times to mozilla plugin > developmentmailing list and got no reply. If anyone > knows the answer please reply me. (As there is a > plugin for gnash available, I assume some of the gnash > developers might be familiar with plugin development) > > I've some doubts regarding plugin development. > > (1) How to compile the samples provided with mozilla? > (mozilla/modules/plugin/tools/sdk/samples/basic/unix). > I could only find Makefile.in file there. How to > generate Makefile from this?
dunno > (2) Is there any major difference between a plugin and > an application? I mean any limitation like that of > java applets? Nope. You can just spawn an application, which is what Gnash plugin does. > (3) Can a plugin open local TCP port and send/receive > data to/from remote machines like ordinary C++ > programs? > > (4) Can a plugin access/modify local files? Yes to both (3) and (4) - see answer to (2) --strk; _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
