New Extension Wizard

Ted Mielczarek · Post by **Ted Mielczarek** » February 15th, 2006, 8:13 pm

Updated slightly, it will now remember your name and the part of the extension id after the @ in a cookie, as well as autogenerate shortname/id based on extension name. It should also have slightly clearer errors in a few places, as well as indicators for required fields.

More coming, but feedback welcome.

EDIT: Basic Thunderbird overlay now generated if you select Thunderbird as a target application.

-Ted

Ted Mielczarek · Post by **Ted Mielczarek** » February 19th, 2006, 12:44 am

New version available. Lots of bugfixes and whatnot. Can now create a context menu item. Also a new option to generate license boilerplate for MPL tri license or BSD license. Plus links to extension development resources.

Thanks to asqueella for all his beta testing.

0live · Post by **0live** » February 19th, 2006, 10:02 am

Would you add <a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Localize_extension_descriptions">localized description support</a>?

Ted Mielczarek · Post by **Ted Mielczarek** » February 19th, 2006, 1:03 pm

0live wrote:Would you add <a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Localize_extension_descriptions">localized description support</a>?

Done, but I haven't tested it with multiple locales. Can you try it out and see if it works properly?

-Ted

ericjung · Post by **ericjung** » February 23rd, 2006, 2:49 pm

Once again, this tool is immensely important to me. I would really love it, Ted, if you could add support for a toolbar button, just like you've done for a menu item and context-menu item.

Thanks,
grimholtz

ericjung · Post by **ericjung** » February 23rd, 2006, 3:42 pm

By the way, you might consider renaming this tool "The Extension Factory" (or just "Extension Factory") instead of "Extension Wizard"

Philip Chee · Post by **Philip Chee** » February 23rd, 2006, 4:22 pm

"The Extension Sourcerer"? with apologies to Terry Pratchett.

ericjung · Post by **ericjung** » February 23rd, 2006, 6:45 pm

Also would love to see support for Flock. It's as simple as adding this to the install.rdf if the user checks the appropriate checkbox:

Code: Select all

  <!-- Flock -->
  <em:targetApplication>
    <Description>
      <em:id>{a463f10c-3994-11da-9945-000d60ca027b}</em:id>
      <em:maxVersion>1.0+</em:maxVersion>
      <em:minVersion>1.0+</em:minVersion>
    </Description>
  </em:targetApplication>

Branstrom · Post by **Branstrom** » March 21st, 2006, 10:22 am

Use <label>s.

ericjung · Post by **ericjung** » March 21st, 2006, 10:39 am

Use <label>s.

Huh? For what?

Branstrom · Post by **Branstrom** » March 21st, 2006, 11:10 am

Code: Select all

<form action="submit" method="post">
   <label for="user">Name</label>
   <input type="text" id="user">
</form>

Allows clicking on the label to select/activate the form element.

ericjung · Post by **ericjung** » March 21st, 2006, 12:10 pm

Branstrom, I think you've posted to the wrong thread.

Ted Mielczarek · Post by **Ted Mielczarek** » June 21st, 2006, 1:53 pm

I have (finally) added creation of a toolbar button. Please let me know if you find any problems.

http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/extensionwiz/