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XRap Version 0.9 Update

Lots of changes.  Lots!  Here's a list: Added a license page Added a page to validate that you are packaging a XULRunner application The wizard…
Joshua Doodnauth
Joshua DoodnauthApril 23, 2009
DevelopmentOpen SourceXRap

XRap Version 0.4 Release

XRap has been making use of a great program called WiX, which is used for packaging applications to deploy on the Windows platform.  The only…
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Joshua DoodnauthJanuary 24, 2009
DevelopmentOpen SourceXRap

XRap Version 0.3 Windows Released!

Well its been a long time, a lot of reading, and a lot of learning (JavaScript and XUL), but I've managed to finally change over…
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Joshua DoodnauthDecember 13, 2008
DevelopmentJavascriptOpen SourceProgrammingXRap

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…
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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…
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Joshua DoodnauthDecember 2, 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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