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Difficulty Writing Firefox plugin

machale08 · 2008-02-22 21:00:41

Hi, I’m trying to write a firefox plugin and having no luck. It’s supposed to work like this, When you rollover a link, the window that the page is linked to appears within or on top of the current page (but not as a popup) and preferably without any of the toolbars across the top but with the scroll bar along the side.…

22-02-2008 9:00pm

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machale08

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Hi,
I’m trying to write a firefox plugin and having no luck.
It’s supposed to work like this,

When you rollover a link, the window that the page is linked to appears within or on top of the current page (but not as a popup) and preferably without any of the toolbars across the top but with the scroll bar along the side.
Then when you roll off the linked file it vanishes.

I can already do this from the web side, by just creating a popup, but it’s important that it’s done by firefox.

If anyone could help I’d really appreciate it, I’m really out of my depth with this one.

I’ve attached an image to show what I mean. I hope it helps.

Thanks
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#2 23-02-2008 2:14pm

machale08

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Hey,
I saw people were looking at the board but not replying, is this cause the questions a bit daft?
Is this actually possible?

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#3 23-02-2008 4:43pm

Creamy Goodness

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no it's just a lot people like to browse here, may be at work, maybe enjoying their weekend having totally shut off their brain from programming and they do it 9-5 fives days a week.

i know i try not to think/solve/program on the weekend.

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#4 23-02-2008 5:20pm

Hobbes

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What you want to do might be easier done in greasemonkey.

You can read how to do plugins at the Mozdev site. I posted a build environment I had to create the boards.ie plugin.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2238965&highlight=plugin#post2238965

But the source will be out of date (you will need to change version numbers).

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#5 23-02-2008 6:22pm

sobriquet

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Been meaning to write greasemonkey scripts for a couple of things. There's a free book on the topic here: http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/ - I'm a fan of the authors' Python book.

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#6 23-02-2008 9:30pm

machale08

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Spot on, GreaseMonkey looks like a much easier way of doing it.
appreciate it

thanks

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