Closed Bug 150758 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Bad plugin example code on mozilla.org

Categories

(Documentation Graveyard :: Web Developer, defect)

Product:
Documentation Graveyard
Component:
Web Developer
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED

People

(Reporter: jprice, Assigned: serhunt)

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Details

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    N/A

The example of scripting a plugin on http://www.mozilla.org/docs/scripting-
plugins.html is flawed.  The example of NPP_GetValue was obviously not taken 
from running code.  Just follow the flow of scriptablePeer, it's declared twice 
in the method...  meaning assignment doesn't happen as it should (scoping 
issue).  Furthermore, the example seems to think instance->pdata holds the 
instance of nsScriptablePeer created...  It is never set.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.N/A
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Expected Results:  example code should be from a plugin that had actually been 
run...
Ian, do you want to tackle this? Reassing to av@netscape.com (apparently now
responsible for the doc, or at least updated it most recently) if you think this
is not within your purview.
Assignee: rudman → oeschger
->av. Andrei, I'd be happy to update this doc if you tell me where to go with it.
Assignee: oeschger → av
Corrected.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
AV corrected the issue, marking verified
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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