Hi,
Your registration function looks like it's almost
identical to mine one (I've pasted my one in below so that you can compare
yourself).
Did your compreg.dat file contain entries for your dll
after you touched .autoreg and restarted
firefox?
I'm not really sure why your dll isn't being called -
are you sure your dll isn't being loaded by Firefox? Maybe Firefox is
loading it but because your missing something or something is different with
firefox on windows your dll is being loaded but doesn't work?
One thing I did to check if my dll was even
being loaded by firefox was to use a program called filemon (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml)
to check if my dll was being touched when starting and running firefox. The
reason I did this is because I had a problem before where my dll was being
loaded but because I'd failed to implement a piece of functionality it
wasn't working properly - at least by doing this you'll be able to tell if
your dll is even being picked up by firefox.
sorry I can't be any more
help,
Damien
static
NS_METHOD
ObMozRegistration(
nsIComponentManager *aCompMgr, nsIFile *aPath,
const char *registryLocation,
const char *componentType,
const
nsModuleComponentInfo *info)
{
nsresult rv;
nsCOMPtr<nsIServiceManager> servman =
do_QueryInterface((nsISupports*)aCompMgr, &rv);
if (NS_FAILED(rv))
return rv;
nsCOMPtr<nsICategoryManager> catman;
servman->GetServiceByContractID(NS_CATEGORYMANAGER_CONTRACTID,
NS_GET_IID(nsICategoryManager),
getter_AddRefs(catman));
if (NS_FAILED(rv))
return rv;
char* previous = nsnull;
rv = catman->AddCategoryEntry("xpcom-startup",
"ObMoz",
ObMoz_ContractID,
PR_TRUE,
PR_TRUE,
&previous);
if (previous)
nsMemory::Free(previous);
return rv;
}
Hi Damien,
I did the
steps you said in your mail and see compreg.dat recreated under profiles
directory.
But, the observer notification for xpcom-startup didn't
came while firefox starts.
The following code registers for the
xpcom-startup notification to category manager
static NS_METHOD
nsQEngineRegistrationProc(nsIComponentManager
*aCompMgr,
nsIFile
*aPath,
const char
*registryLocation,
const char
*componentType,
const nsModuleComponentInfo *info)
{
nsresult
rv;
nsCOMPtr<nsIServiceManager> server =
do_QueryInterface((nsISupports*)aCompMgr,&rv);
nsCOMPtr<nsICategoryManager> catman;
server->GetServiceByContractID(NS_CATEGORYMANAGER_CONTRACTID,NS_GET_IID(nsICategoryManager),getter_AddRefs(catman));
if(NS_SUCCEEDED(rv))
{
char* previous = nsnull;
catman->AddCategoryEntry("xpcom-startup","nsQEngineImpl",NS_QENGINE_CONTRACTID,PR_TRUE,PR_TRUE,&previous);
}
return
NS_OK;
}
Please let me know this is the way by which we
should register for xpcom-startup notification.
One more pointer
the same code works with Firefox under Linux Platform.
I will
appreciate your help in this regard.
Thanks &
Regards
Raghavan
Damien O'Brien wrote:
Hi,
Yes this did work for me. The steps are as
follows
1) Shutdown any running instances of
Firefox
2) Copy your dll into the components folder
(C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\components)
3) "Touch" e.g. open and save the file .autoreg
- You will find this in the same folder as firefox.exe (C:\Program
Files\Mozilla Firefox)
4) Restart Firefox.
Once you've done this you should be able to use
your dll (depending on what it does).
According to Doug Turner in that link I sent
you there are a number of other ways of doing this;
A) touch a file .autoreg next to the executable.
B)
run regxpcom with the right commands.
C) install the component
via xpinstall.
D) run some priveleged js (as your code above
attempts to do)
I tried using regxpcom to do this but like you this didn't
work for me. I haven't tried using xpinstall.
If you mange to figure out another way of doing this I'd
appreciate you sending it on to me ;-)
Thanks,
Damien
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