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Run External Apps using XPCOM Interfaces

I thought it was impossible to run a program outside my XUL app, mainly because of some kind of JavaScript restriction. There are client-side restrictions…
Joshua Doodnauth
Joshua DoodnauthDecember 4, 2008
JavascriptOpen SourceProgramming

GUID generator in JavaScript

Found two little functions in JavaScript to create a GUID function S4(){ return (((1+Math.random())*0x10000)|0).toString(16).substring(1); } function guid() { return (S4()+S4()+"-"+S4()+"-"+S4()+"-"+S4()+"-"+S4()+S4()+S4()); } Thanks to sj at…
Joshua Doodnauth
Joshua DoodnauthDecember 2, 2008
Open SourceProgrammingXRap

XUL File I/O: Write Files

Writing files in XUL isn't that much harder than reading a file, in fact its very similar.  What a relief.  In my example I am…
Joshua Doodnauth
Joshua DoodnauthNovember 26, 2008
Open SourceSoftware

Triple Web Threat

While it may not be very interesting to the average Internet user, Lunascape may intrigue many web developers.  Basically its a Web Browser capable of changing…
Joshua Doodnauth
Joshua DoodnauthNovember 25, 2008
DevelopmentOpen SourceProgrammingXRap

How-to: Read Files in XUL

After some weeks of procrastination and going nuts over other projects, I’m getting back to XUL and my XRap program.  I’ve been asked to change…
Joshua Doodnauth
Joshua DoodnauthNovember 25, 2008
Open Source

One Billion Add-ons Served…

In just under 4 year Mozilla has managed to hit the one billion mark for downloads from addons.mozilla.org.  It just shows how influential as well as…
Joshua Doodnauth
Joshua DoodnauthNovember 21, 2008
DevelopmentOpen SourceXRap

Update: XRap 0.1 for Windows Release

I've been working hard at cleaning up my code, getting the directories to work in XML, and cleaning up my code generator so that WiX…
Joshua Doodnauth
Joshua DoodnauthOctober 24, 2008
DevelopmentOpen SourceXRap

XML Listing of File System

One of the challenges of automatically preparing a wxs (which is in xml) file for WiX to process into an msi file for installation, was…
Joshua Doodnauth
Joshua DoodnauthOctober 23, 2008
DevelopmentOpen SourceXRap

XRap 0.1 Release

I have updated my link to my 0.1 release of the XULRunner Application Packager (XRap), it can be downloaded here.  Its still buggy, I am…
Joshua Doodnauth
Joshua DoodnauthOctober 20, 2008
DevelopmentOpen SourceXRap

WiX – Listing File System in XML

Problem: WiX uses an XML file for instructions on what directories to add to the msi package.  I had no problem in recursively going through…
Joshua Doodnauth
Joshua DoodnauthOctober 17, 2008
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