Your best examples will be those at mozdev.org. Try downloading (or
checking out from CVS) some of the XPIs there and see how they do it.
-myk
Eric Plaster wrote:
>
> I'm working on a project that is really several applications. I want to
> make several xpi's and allow the user to install which ever app he
> wants. The problem is, I want to put all the jar files under a common
> directory. For example:
>
> chrome
> dndtools
> spellviewer.xpi
> common.xpi
> ppc.xpi
> ...
>
> How do I write the install.js? Everything I tried seemed to be wrong.
> The document on xpinstall on netscapes site was good at explaining the
> API, but short on examples. I've included the install.js for
> spellviewer. If someone could tell me how to get it installed in a
> "dndtools" directory and be able to launch it with "./mozilla -chrome
> chrome://spellviewer/content", I would be most greatfull.
>
> BTW, being able to register it as "dndtools/spellviewer" would also be
> very helpfull to avoid name conflicts.
>
>
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> ----
> Eric Plaster Qlogic
> Senior Software Engineer (952)932-4000
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.qlogic.com
>
> install.js
>
> Content-Type:
>
> application/x-javascript
> Content-Encoding:
>
> 7bit
>
>