Each .xpi ("zippy") is a stand-alone install, so any managing of multiple
installs needs to be handled outside. In the case of Netscape 6, for
example, the installer stub handled this, and so did the SmartUpdate site
before they shut it down in the layoffs.
You can take two approaches. The simplest is to duplicate the dnd_common.jar
in each of the installs. It won't hurt to install and register it multiple
times, although it will bulk up the download for folks who install more than
one package.
The other is to write some site scripting that will keep track of what
people have clicked on, perhaps by having them click checkboxes before
hitting a final "Install" button. You can't do this by having simple links
to the .xpi files, you'll have to use the InstallTrigger methods to launch
the selections in a bunch.
You'll want to use InstallTrigger.install(pkgs [, cb]);
where pkgs is an object:
var pkgs = { "Spellviewer": "http://dndtools.mozdev.org/spellviewer.xpi";,
"Bookmarks" : "http://etc";
}
and cb is an optional callback function that will be called for each install
package in case you want to know/display status
function cb (url, status) { alert(url +": " + status); }
-Dan Veditz
Eric Plaster wrote:
> Well, that's not quiet what I want to do. Let me try and explain a
> little more.
>
> On my web page, I'll have a list of applications that they can install
> like this:
>
> Choose what application you want to install:
>
> * Spellviewer <http://dndtools.mozdev.org/>
> * Bookviewer <http://dndtools.mozdev.org/>
> * PPC <http://dndtools.mozdev.org/>
>
> All three of these are seporate applications. All three of them need at
> least two xpi's to be installed. For example, Spellviewer will need these:
>
> * spellviewer.xpi
> * dnd_common.xpi
>
> And Bookviewer will need these:
>
> * bookviewer.xpi
> * dnd_common.xpi
>
> Now setting up the web page to do this I haven't done yet... But that
> isn't really my question. My question is, I want all the jar's to be
> installed in one directory like this:
>
> chrome
> dndtools
> spellviewer.jar
> dnd_common.jar
>
> It is more of an orginizational thing really, but this is what I'm
> looking for.
>
>
> Myk Melez wrote:
>
>> I think what you want to do is install multiple applications from a
>> single XPI, not to install multiple XPIs. Doing this should be as
>> simple as zipping the applications together in one archive whose
>> install.js file does the same installation procedure for each
>> application.
>>
>> -myk
>>
>
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> Eric Plaster Qlogic
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>
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