From Superbiskit at cox.net Fri Jun 4 19:36:25 2004 From: Superbiskit at cox.net (David A. Cobb) Date: Fri Jun 4 18:51:00 2004 Subject: [SearchSidebar] Are you still there??? Message-ID: <40C0F969.70701@cox.net> I hate doing this as much as I hate receiving the results. However, I've received nothing on this list since 04/13, during a time when the search capability has gone to hell. I'm interested in locating the original search logic. Where in the tree do I search? -- David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate "By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr. Life is too short to tolerate crappy software! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Superbiskit.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 260 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mozdev.org/pipermail/searchsidebar/attachments/20040604/965918a9/Superbiskit.vcf From mmcguigan at webnugget.com Sat Jun 5 22:37:57 2004 From: mmcguigan at webnugget.com (Matthew A. McGuigan) Date: Sat Jun 5 21:52:14 2004 Subject: [SearchSidebar] Are you still there??? In-Reply-To: <40C0F969.70701@cox.net> References: <40C0F969.70701@cox.net> Message-ID: <40C27575.9000907@webnugget.com> David A. Cobb wrote: > I hate doing this as much as I hate receiving the results. However, > I've received nothing on this list since 04/13, during a time when the > search capability has gone to hell. I'm interested in locating the > original search logic. Where in the tree do I search? > >_______________________________________________ >SearchSidebar mailing list >SearchSidebar@mozdev.org >http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/searchsidebar > > Hi David, I'm still here. The problem is not as bad as it first appears. I'm just not experienced at programming for Mozilla. As far as I know, the search services logic is still in FireFox. The code from seamonkey can be located here: http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpfe/components/search/src/ The built-in searchbar still makes use of this, so I don't think it has changed much. The SearchSidebar code that has been removed from FireFox is the search related XUL and JS that used to be in the comm.jar file. The code is located here: http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/xpfe/components/search/resources/ I'm not certain that the code wasn't changed any when moved to FireFox, so you may want to pull down a copy of .8 and look in the chrome folder for the comm.jar file and open it with your zip utility to find the search related files. If you snoop around a bit, you will see that the current SearchSidebar extension is mostly just an overlay that pulled the pieces together and added some shortcuts. Now that the pieces have been removed it won't work. I'm sure fixing it is an easy job for someone that has a good amount of knowledge in Mozilla and XUL. I was lucky to get it working the first time. Let's hope one of us gets lucky and finds the answers this time. I think I can get it working by replacing the .9 comm.jar file, but that is a terrible hack job. An extension shouldn't replace existing files. I'd much rather do this properly and have the files located in a separate jar file. Thank you for offering to help. Any help you can provide is appreciated very much. Matthew From mmcguigan at webnugget.com Tue Jun 15 22:55:33 2004 From: mmcguigan at webnugget.com (Matthew A. McGuigan) Date: Tue Jun 15 22:33:08 2004 Subject: [SearchSidebar] Search Sidebar Update Message-ID: <40CFA895.1040003@webnugget.com> Hello all, Since FireFox .9 is now available, 0.1.3b will likely be the final 1.3 version. All my attention to Advanced Search Sidebar will now focus on getting 1.4 to work on FireFox .9 . Whether or not we will ever get searchsidebar working with .9 is questionable. I've put together a file that includes the new forced file structure of FireFox. I think I have that part correct, until they change something again. I have also included all of the files from Seamonkey that I think SearchSidebar needs. I chose to use the files from Seamonkey as I thought this might fix single-search not returning results. The Mycroft plugins have been removed and may not return, due to new install.rdf restrictions. For the new FireFox extension manager, I copied and borrowed A LOT from the Web Developer(WD) extension. I reworked our install.js file and created a install.rdf file. Both are based on those of WD. I can get it to install in Firebird, but it complains about the search button and does not work. It is not seeing the search-panel.dtd file for some reason. I can get it to install in FireFox .9, but it crashes FireFox on restart. You have to delete your profile (now located under .mozilla) and reinstall FireFox .9 to use it again, so this is not for the timid to try. I've uploaded the file to the mirrors, but changed the extension as not to mess anyone up easily. I'll continue to update the file as I feel that I've made any improvements to it. Please take a look at the file and help out if you like. http://downloads.mozdev.org/searchsidebar/searchsidebar.dev Change the file extension to .xpi to install. I may not ever get it to work, but I am trying. Helpful links about the new install.rdf file that I have found: http://www.bengoodger.com/software/mb/extensions/packaging/extensions.html http://jedbrown.net/mozilla/EM/ To view the contents and source code of the Advanced Search Sidebar extension, curious newbies should open .xpi and .jar files with a file compression program (.zip file Utility. ie. WinZip.). From chromazine at sbcglobal.net Wed Jun 16 02:49:01 2004 From: chromazine at sbcglobal.net (Steve Kudlak) Date: Wed Jun 16 05:01:55 2004 Subject: [SearchSidebar] Search Sidebar Update In-Reply-To: <40CFA895.1040003@webnugget.com> References: <40CFA895.1040003@webnugget.com> Message-ID: <40D0097D.6020502@sbcglobal.net> Just a quick note. I wiill try to see if in my overloaded state I will see what I can do to help. I have Firfox ,0.8 configured with most of the extrension I need to do what I want. I really need the Search Sidebar. If it doesn't work I will give up on Firefox and go back to Netscape or Mozilla which are kind of pretty heavily overloaded. but have features I really like.. Firefox is just a bit too stripped down for me. But I was able to get a nice workable setup that ispretty clean and easy to for ost of my purposes, but it did take all of US Memorial Day Weekend to get it done. Have Fun, Sends Steve Matthew A. McGuigan wrote: > Hello all, > > Since FireFox .9 is now available, 0.1.3b will likely be the final 1.3 > version. All my attention to Advanced Search Sidebar will now focus > on getting 1.4 to work on FireFox .9 . Whether or not we will ever > get searchsidebar working with .9 is questionable. > > I've put together a file that includes the new forced file structure > of FireFox. I think I have that part correct, until they change > something again. I have also included all of the files from Seamonkey > that I think SearchSidebar needs. I chose to use the files from > Seamonkey as I thought this might fix single-search not returning > results. The Mycroft plugins have been removed and may not return, > due to new install.rdf restrictions. > > For the new FireFox extension manager, I copied and borrowed A LOT > from the Web Developer(WD) extension. I reworked our install.js file > and created a install.rdf file. Both are based on those of WD. > > I can get it to install in Firebird, but it complains about the search > button and does not work. It is not seeing the search-panel.dtd file > for some reason. > I can get it to install in FireFox .9, but it crashes FireFox on > restart. You have to delete your profile (now located under .mozilla) > and reinstall FireFox .9 to use it again, so this is not for the timid > to try. > > I've uploaded the file to the mirrors, but changed the extension as > not to mess anyone up easily. I'll continue to update the file as I > feel that I've made any improvements to it. Please take a look at > the file and help out if you like. > > http://downloads.mozdev.org/searchsidebar/searchsidebar.dev > > Change the file extension to .xpi to install. > > I may not ever get it to work, but I am trying. > > Helpful links about the new install.rdf file that I have found: > > http://www.bengoodger.com/software/mb/extensions/packaging/extensions.html > > > http://jedbrown.net/mozilla/EM/ > > To view the contents and source code of the Advanced Search Sidebar > extension, curious newbies should open .xpi and .jar files with a file > compression program (.zip file Utility. ie. WinZip.). > > _______________________________________________ > SearchSidebar mailing list > SearchSidebar@mozdev.org > http://mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/searchsidebar >