953913 - Port FUEL/STEEL/SMILE to Instantbird

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Other, enhancement)

Description

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 474 at 2010-08-12 18:07:00 UTC ***

I'm attempting to port an extension to Instantbird from Thunderbird/Firefox that depends on the "Application" object made available via FUEL/STEEL. I'm not sure how widely used these interfaces actually are, i.e. how many extensions they exist in, but it could be beneficial when porting other extensions as well.

The comm-central version of this was never really implemented and only seems to forward the Toolkit API without doing anything else: http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mail/steel/, most likely it should be renamed though so it could be expanded if necessary.

Maybe I'm just not accessing it correctly but in Thunderbird/Firefox I can just type "Application" in the error console and it evaluates properly, I get an undefined error in Instantbird.

Links for people who may not know:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Toolkit_API/FUEL
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Thunderbird/STEEL
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/SeaMonkey/SMILE

If not I'll just have to hack the extension apart a bit more to get rid of the Application references.

Comment 1

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 474 at 2010-08-20 19:31:47 UTC ***

Note that not including this breaks the extension manager: see bio 589098 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589098)

A workaround is provided in: 
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner_tips#Extension_Manager
Copied below:

> If your application is based on Gecko 2.0, you need to register a component
> through the new component registration because the extension manager uses FUEL,
> namely Application.restart(), to restart your xulrunner-based application after
> any change (installation, removal, enabling, disabling) in the extensions' list:
> 1. copy files fuelApplication.js and fuelApplication.manifest from browser/fuel/src for instance into your components/ directory
> 2. tweak the line #include ../../../toolkit/components/exthelper/extApplication.js in your copy of fuelApplication.js as needed
> 3. make sure to declare the FUEL module and the two files in your components/Makefile.in as in browser/fuel/src/Makefile.in
> 4. rebuild...

Comment 2

[:aceman]

Please note FUEL was removed from Firefox in bug 1090880 and STEEL is also mostly unneeded and to be dropped when possible, bug 1278067.

Comment 3

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Yep, we won't be implementing this.

Thanks for the heads up that FUEL was finally removed!