Archive for 'XUL'
Project Management Tutorial Part 2, First Iteration
Here’s our goals for the first iteration.
Task Database Object
Add Task via Xul Client
It’s small, but it gets us started on all the overhead of both rails and xul.
Project Management Tutorial Part 1, Planning and Design
Luckily/Sadly, there is no pressure for me to complete this on any timeframe, and it’s secondary to the rest of my work, which is far more important. However, a nice diversion is always in order, and helps get my mojo back into my regular programming work. Read on for the rest of this…
Quick Update
Not that I post that often, really, but here’s a quick update. I’ve been consumer by work and a recent death in the family.
First of all, for all you locals, there’s a project to create a Haunted House in Deep Ellum. I posted the MySpace bulletin on my Dallas Halloween blog page.
Secondly, Firefox 2 is […]
Firefox 2b2
Just getting around to checking it out. Damn! It’s really fast, some new features. Haven’t explored it much.
Of course, where I’m most concerned is…
DevMo FF2 For Devs.
Check out the new stuff:
What’s new In JavaScript 1.7
TextPath and other new SVG Attributes
And that’s where the 98 controversy comes in, Cairo doesn’t support some of it’s features on […]
Yep, I’m here and there
AHH! Ok, so I’m avoiding my blog like the plague.
“Comments in moderation (323) ยป”
Time to hit the wordpress page and look for plugins again. I upgraded and it killed some stuff. Maybe a bayes filter, lol.
Well, I’m just stopping by to say, check out the new version of FoxyTunes. It’s a preview for Version 2, […]
Finally found the page I was looking for
I must’ve spent a week looking for this simple page on doing Socket connections in XUL. Thank goodness. I want to set up a jabber client in pure JS and XUL(I want to). I also want to set up a chat room for my new dating site, YNKOdate. Slowly but surely it’s all coming together.
Playing around with XUL and SVG
I plan to continue the tutorial, sorry, just too busy.
Today, let’s play around with XUL, SVG, and JS.
Let’s make a std window with some SVG for fun.
<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<?xml-stylesheet href=”chrome://global/skin” type=”text/css”?>
<window title=”SVG Demo”
xmlns=”http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul”
xmlns:svg=”http://www.w3.org/2000/svg”
xmlns:html=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”
id=”svg_demo_window”
style=”width: 100%; background-color: #CCCCCC;”
pack=”stretch”
onload=”loadUp();”
>
<script type=”application/x-javascript” src=”svg_demo.js” />
<svg
[…]
No Part 3 today
No Part 3 on the XulRunner tutorial today. Sorry everybody, just got busy with work. I’ll push for it tomorrow.
XUL editor Tag, or: Performing Moz Voodoo
Ok, so you’ve got your editor tag in XUL, looks nice, works ok. How do you get the data out?
Well, it’s INCREDIBLY simple, and hard as hell to find. I’m posting this so there’s at least 1 more place to find it.
So I’ve got this:
<pre>
<editor src=”about:blank” id=”testeditor” editortype=”html” type=”content-primary” flex=”6″ />
<button label=”Edit” oncommand=”document.getElementById(’testeditor’).makeEditable(’html’,false);”/>
<button label=”Source” oncommand=”alert(document.getElementById(’testeditor’).contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML)/>
<button […]
Mozilla SIP Client
For anyone who hasn’t seen it, check out Zap! the Mozilla SIP Client. Not done, but it looks like it’s come a good ways.
XulRunner and Rails Tutorial, Part 2: Connecting the Two
Read Parts: One
Two
Today we’re going to Connect Rails to our new XulRunner app. Sounds easy enough, right?
Well….
Let’s start on the Xul side of it. All this XmlHttpRequest stuff is crap. And Ajax is Ajax+J.
Under the xul/content directory, let’s create a new one called “js” to store all of our javascript in, and let’s create another […]
Xul(Runner) and Rails Tutorial, Part 1: Introduction and Setup
Read Parts: One
Two
Please Note: I’m not the first to do this. Check out that app, very nifty.
But now I’m going to give it a go.
For this demo app, we’re going to create a simple online forum based in XUL with a Rails backend.
First up, gotta boot up RadRails and start a new project, and we’ll […]
XulRunner 1.8.0.2
I don’t think it’s official, and I don’t think it’s the final version of 1.8.0.2, but it is in the stable builds for the 1.8.0 branch. Get it here. I hate to do it, but I’ve spent all day working on a crash problem, and switching to 1.8.0.2 fixed it no problem. Just wanted to […]
Back, and Updates
I’m back, here’s some quick updates.
Asterisk 1.2.5 is out.
A company I work for has released a xulrunner based app(woo hoo!) using an MSI installer creator that works quite well, although I can’t wait for xulrunner to fully mature and have it’s own installation and updating mechanisms.
I’ve also become a huge fan of Ruby on Rails. […]
Exciting Stuff happening
Ok, so I’ve been out of the loop for awhile. Sorry, been very busy, but back for now.
First Off, Firefox RC1 is out and available. Complete with SVG, JS 1.6, CSS 2 and 3 and lots of other cool stuff.
Some other cool stuff, from Devmo: Info on the Canvas Project(Awesome).
There’s great info on […]
So yeah
So yeah, the CRM app that I did for a local company(along with a fellow programmer) does not work at all in Firefox 1.5. Time to convert it to a XulRunner app, or a piece of real chrome. Grr…
Added some JSON to it to speed it up, but found out the basic XML-RPC isn’t working […]
Waiting out the hurricane: SVG and XBL in XUL
With FF 1.5 having native SVG support, and XulRunner close behind, I thouhgt I’d search on SVG inside of XBL widgets for use in Xul(maybe even a Firefix skin done in SVG).
Using SVG with XBL in XUL.
An SVG and XBL Paint Demo.
Wish I had some more. Gotta go, wind is picking up.
For those wondering, I’m […]
Saturday Update
Over at XUL For Thought he has released an XBL for a very cool datepicker. Big Kudos. Datepickers are very time consuming, yet obvious, to program, and a reusable widget is simply a must.
Looks like there is some info on Ebay’s Plan for Skype.
Scott Berkun made some news by both switching to Firefox and making […]
Python for XUL
Brendan talks about Python for XUL. That’s excellent news that Moz is going to finally get another language, not that I hate javascript(I now have a new appreciation for it, in fact). But something else is definately needed. Plus you can mix languages, although this is probably going to quickly be considered a faux pas […]
Why XUL Will Win
Nice quick read on Why XUL Will Win over at Smoking toooooo much PHP. A nice quick read.