Thunderbird Windows Build with DOM Inspector

[CatThief]

I sure do wish it came packaged with 1.0. Gosh, it's a whole whopping 184K. We wouldn't want it to bloat the Tb installer, now would we.

[Sailfish]

At one time there was a commitment to keep DOMi in the full zip builds and not the installer builds but, eventually, even that support was dropped.

I agree, not having DOMi makes theme supporting for Thunderbird (TB) much more of a challenge. In my case, I prefer to keep my themes up to date with the nightlies rather than wait until near the end of a release cycle and then attmpt to make sense of all the changes that had gone in since the previous release. DOMi makes doing this considerably easier and without it, I keep questioning myself as to if it's worth it to continue my theme support?

So far, I've kept up but there have been times when I've almost decided to abandon TB.

[Old Bozz]

Well, the bumped extension doesn't work so good for after all. It crashes after a few minutes when searching a window. Oh well.

[Sailfish]

Yeah, DOMi as an extension has always been tempermental that way, that's why it was never made a bona fide extension. It will be best if mscott would at least make a "1.0" zip build with it in it or, even better, go back to having it part of the nightly zip builds, imo.

btw, now that "1.0" is available, should one now go back to the Trunk builds for the new stuff (like Firefox now) or is TB still using the Branch for new features, anyone know?

[Old Bozz]

Not sure about the branch/trunk. The nightlys being posted are from the trunk. See GrailKnights comment in this thread.

I posted in Thunderbird Builds about Dom Inspector if anyone want's to add comments.

[CatThief]

I posted in Thunderbird Builds about Dom Inspector if anyone want's to add comments.

Everyone PLEASE post a little something there. We all need DOMi.

[CatThief]

I figured out a way to get DOMi into Tb 1.0 final. I'm not sure if this will work on the nightlies, but for anyone who wants it in the final here's how (Win only, English only, and Tb zip file only - not the exe installer).

1. Download "Thunderbird 1.0.zip" from <a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.0/win32/en-US/">here</a>.

2. Download mscott's Tb build with DOMi "thunderbird-dominspector-0.9+.zip" from <a href="ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/extensions/inspector/">here</a>.

3. Unzip each file into separate directories. (You'll eventually be keeping the Tb 1.0 Final and discarding mscott's Tb build.)

4. Take each of these files from mscott's version and place them into their respective locations in the Tb 1.0 Final version, creating new directories as needed:
<b>\thunderbird\chrome\inspector.jar
\thunderbird\chrome\overlayinfo\inspector\*.*
\thunderbird\components\inspector.dll
\thunderbird\components\inspector.xpt
\thunderbird\components\inspector-cmdline.js
\thunderbird\defaults\pref\inspector.js
\thunderbird\res\inspector\*.*</b>

5. Place this entry into \thunderbird\chrome\overlayinfo\messenger\content\overlays.rdf under <RDF:Seq RDF:about="chrome://messenger/content/mailWindowOverlay.xul">
<b><RDF:li>chrome://inspector/content/tasksOverlay.xul</RDF:li></b>

6. Place this entry into \thunderbird\chrome\overlayinfo\communicator\content\overlays.rdf under <RDF:Seq RDF:about="chrome://communicator/content/pref/preftree.xul">
<b><RDF:li>chrome://inspector/content/prefs/prefsOverlay.xul</RDF:li></b>

7. Execute the Tb 1.0 Final version's thunderbird.exe and you should have a DOMi that really, really works totally like it should!

The <b>\thunderbird\chrome\chrome.rdf</b>, <b>\thunderbird\components\compreg.dat</b>, and <b>\thunderbird\components\xpti.dat</b> entires will automatically be placed into these files upon program startup. The <b>\thunderbird\chrome\installed-chrome.txt</b> entires already exist.

I sure hope I didn't leave anything out since I didn't take notes when I did it and this is all from memory.

<u>EDIT:</u>
If you run into problems getting this to work correctly, delete the existing <b>\thunderbird\chrome\chrome.rdf</b>, <b>\thunderbird\components\compreg.dat</b>, and <b>\thunderbird\components\xpti.dat</b> files and allow them to regenerate upon Tb restart. (See this <a href="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=169647&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=30">follow-up post</a> for more information.)

[Sailfish]

Hmm, it (TB) hung when I first tried it but after I deleted the \thunderbird\chrome\chrome.rdf file (thus forcing it to regenerate) TB came up and DOMi could be selected from the menu. However, after it came up, it didn't seem to want to display nor pick and chrome items???

[CatThief]

Hmm, I double checked these files and entries but must have left something out. Mine is working perfectly. I'll go over everything again once I get back into Windows (in Linux at the moment) and post back. I'll try tonight, but it might not be until tomorrow. I'm sorry, Sailfish, that it caused you problems.

EDIT:
Sailfish, do you have these entries inside \thunderbird\chrome\chrome.rdf ?

under:
<RDF:Seq RDF:about="urn:mozilla:package:root">
this entry:
<RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mozilla:package:inspector"/>

under:
<RDF:Seq RDF:about="urn:mozilla:locale:en-US:packages">
this entry:
<RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mozilla:locale:en-US:inspector"/>

under:
<RDF:Seq RDF:about="urn:mozilla:skin:classic/1.0:packages">
this entry:
<RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mozilla:skin:classic/1.0:inspector"/>

[Sailfish]

No need for apologies, I cause much worse problems than that fiddling on my own :_)

Consider me an alpha-tester.

[CatThief]

oops, I posted an edit before I saw that you posted again. See my edit in the last post. Maybe this is the problem?

[Sailfish]

I have it in those and a number of other places:

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<RDF:Seq RDF:about="urn:mozilla:package:root">
    <RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mozilla:package:inspector"/>

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<RDF:Seq RDF:about="urn:mozilla:skin:classic/1.0:packages">
    <RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mozilla:skin:classic/1.0:inspector"/>

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<RDF:Seq RDF:about="urn:mozilla:skin:modern/1.0:packages">
    <RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mozilla:skin:modern/1.0:inspector"/>

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<RDF:Seq RDF:about="urn:mozilla:locale:en-US:packages">
    <RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mozilla:locale:en-US:inspector"/>

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<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mozilla:locale:en-US:inspector"
                   c:baseURL="jar:resource:/chrome/inspector.jar!/locale/en-US/inspector/"
                   c:localeVersion="1.7">
    <c:package RDF:resource="urn:mozilla:package:inspector"/>
  </RDF:Description>

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<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mozilla:skin:classic/1.0:inspector"
                   c:baseURL="jar:resource:/chrome/inspector.jar!/skin/classic/inspector/"
                   c:allowScripts="false"
                   c:skinVersion="1.5">
    <c:package RDF:resource="urn:mozilla:package:inspector"/>
  </RDF:Description>

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<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mozilla:skin:modern/1.0:inspector"
                   c:baseURL="jar:resource:/chrome/inspector.jar!/skin/modern/inspector/"
                   c:allowScripts="false"
                   c:skinVersion="1.5">
    <c:package RDF:resource="urn:mozilla:package:inspector"/>
  </RDF:Description>

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<RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mozilla:package:inspector"
                   c:hasOverlays="true"
                   c:baseURL="jar:resource:/chrome/inspector.jar!/content/inspector/"
                   c:locType="install"
                   c:displayName="Document Inspector"
                   c:author="Joe Hewitt"
                   c:name="inspector"
                   c:localeVersion="1.7"
                   c:skinVersion="1.5" />
  <RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mozilla:locale:en-US:messenger-smime"
                   c:baseURL="jar:resource:/chrome/en-US-mail.jar!/locale/en-US/messenger-smime/"
                   c:localeVersion="1.7">

[CatThief]

oops, I forgot about

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<RDF:Seq RDF:about="urn:mozilla:skin:modern/1.0:packages">
    <RDF:li RDF:resource="urn:mozilla:skin:modern/1.0:inspector"/>

I have the other entries, too, but have found from time to time with other things that the ones I noted are sometimes left out causing major problems. Looks like we can't track the problem down to it this time, though, since everything seems to be in order.

Darn, I don't know what else to try. I can't understand why it works for me and not you. I must have missed something else but don't know what. Aside from the individual files I listed, you did copy the entire contents of \thunderbird\chrome\overlayinfo\inspector\*.* and \thunderbird\res\inspector\*.* right? Gosh, I'm sure you did, I shouldn't even ask.

[Sailfish]

Yeah, I copied the folders over (since they didn't exist in TB1.0). Maybe I'll take a closer look tomorrow, it quite possibly could be something I missed.

btw, I'm on Win98SE so, perhaps, that might be a reason???

[CatThief]

Logically(?) it shouldn't matter (98 or XP) since the program files are the same. I just doublechecked everything again and I'm 99.9% certain I didn't miss anything. I even deleted the chrome.rdf file so Tb would regenerate it. All entries still match yours and DOMi is working fine. This is so strange.