FUEL/0.1/Plan

< FUEL/0.1

Due Date: Jan 31, 2007
Deliverable: Complete API

Toolbar Buttons

• Create a Button
• Insert relative to another button

Example:

 var button = new ToolbarButton( "button_elem_id" );
 var toolbar = Application.toolbars.get("nav");
 
 toolbar.append( button );
 toolbar.insert( button, null );

Event/Observer Handling

• Reliable events that extension developers understand and can use easily
  • An "onload" that works
  • Startup complete / shutdown eminent
  • Your extension installed, updated, removed
• Handle observers seamlessly

Example:

 Application.events.add( "load", function(){
   Bookmarks.getAll();
 });
 
 Application.events.add( "startup/shutdown", ... );
 
 Extension.events.add( "install/update/remove", ... );
 
 // Ideas for extension presence detection:
 Application.extensions.has("extension-id-or-guid");

Preferences

• Use current code (see bug 315277)
• Handle implicit typing (true -> Boolean)
• Allow QueryInterface support to get nsIPrefService, nsIPrefBranch and nsIPrefBranch2
• When used in certain contexts, like Extension.prefs, a branch will be automatically set
  • For Extension, the extension id will be the preset branch

Example:

 Application.prefs.get("my.pref",default);
 Application.prefs.set("my.pref","foo");

 // prefs uses the extension id as a branch
 Extension.prefs.set("autosave");