Hello all,
Suppose that:
1) you are developing an application which you intend to install with
XPI.
2) this requires some small modifications to existing Mozilla chrome
files, eg. adding a couple of entries to the standard Mozilla menus,
adding a line or two of JS to standard Mozilla js files, and so on.
As far as I can see, you cant do this. You can only completely overwrite
the standard Mozilla files, which means you have to maintain/install
your own patched copies and deal with all the change control issues
which this raises.
Or am I wrong?
I am looking at this from the perspective of the MultiZilla project
(http://multizilla.mozdev.org). MultiZilla sure comes with its own
distinct chrome files containing new functionality, but it also needs to
patch the existing Mozilla chrome files (like in the above examples) to
allow them to work.
Is there a recommended way to achieve this?
Examples of what we need to achieve on MultiZilla installation are:
1) add new commands (menus, keystrokes) to the Communicator UI to
control the new functionality
2) insert hooks into Communicator JS to allow us to handle various
events (eg. user clicks on a link in the content)
3) etc.
Cheers,
Chris
