Re: XUL help (Firefox add-on)
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:21:10 -0400 (EDT)
Sorry, I don't know the answers to those questions. It's been a while
since I did that code and I learned just enough to create a working
fruit basket program. I suggest subscribing to the dev-access list run
by the Mozilla Foundation. You can find a link to the subscription page
on the Mailing Lists page of
http://NonvisualDevelopment.org
Jamal
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Alex Hall wrote:
> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:44:55 -0400
> From: Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: XUL help (Firefox add-on)
>
> This has helped some, but I do not get the <dialog> thing. Just
> what is the dialog doing that a hbox or vbox could not, and could
> I use those boxes in place of dialog? As far as getting values
> from things in the box using js, will the getElementByID() work
> as long as the xul and js files are named the same? Thanks.
>
> Have a great day,
> Alex
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx
> >To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Date sent: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:38:22 -0400 (EDT)
> >Subject: Re: XUL help (Firefox add-on)
>
> >In case you haven't seen it, the Fruit Basket example in XUL
> might help.
>
> >http://EmpowermentZone.com/xul_fruit.zip
>
> >Jamal
> >On
> >Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Alex Hall wrote:
>
> >> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:34:11 -0400
> >> From: Alex Hall <mehgcap@xxxxxxx
> >> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: XUL help (Firefox add-on)
>
> >> Hi all,
> >> I am trying to write a Firefox add-on, and I am getting more and
> >> more confused. I have a .xul file that holds a dialog box (an
> >> "hbox" element with a text field, a list box, and a button).
> How
> >> can I use Javascript to interact with my dialog box? For
> example,
> >> how can I grab the text from the textbox and put it into a URL
> if
> >> a certain option is selected in the listbox, and do something
> >> else if another option is selected? Does the js need to know
> >> where the xul file is? If so, how do you tell it? The examples I
> >> have seen have the entire xul code in xml tags, with a few
> >> attributes I have not seen before, and have a reference to the
> js
> >> file. Either way, though, the js code has no idea what the
> >> textbox, list box, and buttons are called, so how can I get them
> >> (the xul and js) to work together?
>
> >> XUL:
> >> <hbox id="test" label="test"
> >> <textbox id="text"
> >> <listbox id="options"
> >> <listitem id="googlesearch">Search Google for This Text
> >> <listitem id="wikisearch">Search Wikipedia for This Text
> >> </listbox
> >> <button id="go" label="Go!"
> >> </hbox
>
> >> I have no js code yet as I am not sure what to do with it. I
> >> really appreciate any help I can get on this.
>
> >> Have a great day,
> >> Alex
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