I'd like to start playing with constructing a UI (eg. XUL-based dialog box),
skinning it, and linking back to C++ code through javascript/XPConnect and
XPCOM.
However I want to start doing it from a familiar environment (Visual
Studio). I've got a sample VC++ application set-up, and I'd like to have the
above (Mozilla-based) dialog pop up when a menu command is chosed. I figure
this will help me start to understand how to use increasing amounts of
Mozilla code in my non-browser apps (previously MFC-based) until they become
almost totally Mozilla-based.
I've done so much reading on the various Moz technologies that my head is
spinning, but I'm still strugling to understand where to start doing this. I
know I need the indiviual technologies/libraries (XPCOM) but what do I need
to do to load/initialise the appropriate things so I can start doing
XUL/javascript/XPCOM stuff in my own external C++ application?
I have downloaded and built 0.8.1, and added the include/lib/bin subdirs in
the 'dist' subdirectory to my VC++ project, so I guess I'm ready to start
writing code, once I know what to write.
Any help before I fall over would be most appreciated :0)
Cheers,
Chris
