even though I haven't finished the other twenty I've started
in the last year, I decided to look at Mozilla's xulrunner
and xul interface for a cross platform program.
Having built a never completed help extension for Thunderbird
a few years back, I was familiar with the general concepts.
I looked around to see if anyone had created any kind of GUI
based application that would help create the xul files needed
for an xulrunner based application. I found XULExplorer. It's
still a young program, but had a wizard feature that would
set up your basic application structure and needed files.
Unfortunately the latest version has an bug introduced by
going from a flat file structure to using jar files to hold
it's internal files (see bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462561). This broke the application build wizard.
A quick fix to get this feature working on your local copy of the application:
- move to the xulexplorer/chrome/ directory
- extract en-US/ directory structure from the en-US.jar file
(using your favorite archive manager) to the chrome/ directory.
(you should have an en-US/ directory in the chrome directory when finished extracting.) - edit the en-US.manifest file in the chrome/ directory to read:
locale explorer en-US file:en-US/
