37512 - XULNotes feedback and log bug

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Documentation Graveyard :: Web Developer, defect, P3)

Description

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Write comments, feedback, and suggestions for the XULNotes here. -ian

Comment 1

[pete]

You used perl style elsif statement in javascript example code on 
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/xul/xulnotes/xulnote_events.html

Comment 2

[/\/\arcio Galli]

Great the XUL notes and samples. I am really starting with XUL right now and
Ian' samples and technotes are helping a lot! :-)

Marcio / Taboca
Geckonnection.com

Comment 3

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Updated xulnote cheatsheet with edits from Peter Annema (jag on #mozilla)

Comment 4

[David]

any idea when the hello world xpcom docs will be there?

Comment 5

[earthsound]

On the page "Skinning XUL Files by Hand" 
(http://www.mozilla.org/docs/xul/xulnotes/xulnote_skins.html)
about 1/3 down the page, a link to "Mozilla's CSS Extensions" 
(http://www.mozilla.org/docs/xul/xulnotes/xulnote_moz-ext.html) does not exist. 
Any idea where this page is? Thanks!

Comment 6

[yledoare]

Hi !

I am a french student and I am realizing a module for the construtct project
(http://cs.aue.auc.dk/construct) in Denmark with mozilla, and I have a problem
with the XUL interface (Bug ?).

With the following code (That resume my problem) , nothing happends when I click
on the "Link" button.

Thanks to report me if it is a bug or not.

Yann Le Doare, University of Esjberg, Denamrark.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/" type="text/css"?>

<window title="Button Test" id="button-test"
   xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"
   onload="showLinks();">
<script>

function showLinks()
{   
  var box=document.getElementsByTagName("urlBox").item(0);   
  var Lien = document.createElement("button");
  box.appendChild(Lien);
  Lien.label="Link";  
  Lien.oncommand="window.open('http://www.google.com', null,
'http,width=600,height=300');";
  Lien.onclick="window.open('http://www.google.com', null,
'http,width=600,height=300');";
}  

</script>
    <urlBox 
        orient="vertical">
    </urlBox>
</window>

Comment 7

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Salut, Yann
Let me play with this example a little bit and see if I can figure out what's wrong.

Comment 8

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Here's are a couple of fixes, Yann. I used document.getElementById("id") instead
of document.getElementsByTagName("name") because there was only one box (though
both methods will work). I also used setAttribute() on the two attributes you
need to create, the label itself and the oncommand. I am pretty sure you can't
set an  event handler directly on the object. Finally, I include the type of
script. Recently, I think it's become necessary to specify the type of script in
your xul as being type="application/x-javascript." It looks like the script
wasn't being executed until this was added.

Bonne chance!
-ian

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/" type="text/css"?>

<window title="Button Test" id="button-test"
   xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"
   onload="showLinks();">
<script type="application/x-javascript">
function showLinks()
{   
  var box=document.getElementById("url");
  var Lien = document.createElement("button");
  box.appendChild(Lien);
  Lien.setAttribute("label", "Lien");  
  Lien.setAttribute("oncommand", "window.open('http://www.google.com', null,
'http,width=600,height=300')");
}  
</script>
<urlBox orient="vertical" id="url"/>
</window>

Comment 9

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 92090 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

Bernard Tremblay just came up with a nice, "live" event handler example for
xulnote_events.html. Checked that in and updated the event xulnote to point to
it. It appears in the Event Bubbling section of that article. Thanks Bernard!

Comment 11

[Ben Tremblay]

from: Credit Where Credit Is Due Department
The snippet I suggested to handle a demo of propagation in
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/xul/xulnotes/xulnote_events.html#bubbles comes from 
a demo ( http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/xultu/#apps ) in Neil Deakin's XUL 
Tutorial. I'm glad to imitate a phase-locked loop in "hunt" mode.

Comment 12

[David Denis]

How about an ETA or update on when the final 4 bullet points will be added or at
least temporary pointers to other resources addressing the topics, especially
"Mozilla's CSS Extensions".

Comment 13

[follower]

I suggest adding reference to http://jslib.mozdev.org/libraries/io/io.html for
help with "File I/O: Using the nsIFile Interface". JSlib provides a nice library
for dealing with such things.


Index: mozilla-org/html/docs/xul/xulnotes/index.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla-org/html/docs/xul/xulnotes/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.29
diff -u -r1.29 index.html
--- mozilla-org/html/docs/xul/xulnotes/index.html	4 Oct 2000 23:07:08 -0000	1.29
+++ mozilla-org/html/docs/xul/xulnotes/index.html	23 May 2002 17:43:58 -0000
@@ -42,10 +42,13 @@
 <li><a href="xulnote_diagnostic.html">XUL Parser in Python</a>
<li><a href="xulnote_packages.html">Creating New Packages in Mozilla</a>
<li>The Mozilla Application Object Model
-<li>File I/O: Using the nsIFile Interface
+<li>File I/O: Using the nsIFile Interface [1]
 <li>Mozilla's CSS Extensions
 <li>The "Hello World" XPCOM Application
 </ul>
+
+[1] See <a href="http://jslib.mozdev.org/libraries/io/io.html">jslib</a> for
help with this.
+
 <p>&nbsp;
 </td></tr></table>
</blockquote>

Comment 14

[Daniel Wang]

documentation graveyard <http://www.mozilla.org/classic/> lists
XULNotes. Is XULNotes going to die?

Comment 15

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

hrmph. I think some of those xulnotes might be aging ungracefully, but certainly
there is still some useful content there. I would hesitate to put the whole
thing in the graveyard. Perhaps we can evaluate them each for currency.

Comment 16

[Ben Tremblay]

It's that time of year, and there's likely to be some stale curft around 
. *sniff* ... It might be time to check the best-before date. (Features list 
for 2.0?)

Comment 17

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

moving stuff over to an outside-the-firewall email for the time being, looking
for people to pick these Help and doc bugs up for me.

Comment 18

[Daniel Wang]

taking over some of Ian's bugs

Comment 19

[Florian Scholz (Open Web Docs)]

No activity in 10 years. Closing. Please open new issues against the MDN XUL docs in the "Developer Documentation" product.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL/A_XUL_Bestiary
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/XUL_Event_Propagation