A Brief Introduction To XULRunner: Part 2 - Revision history

Parasyte: /* XUL Editors and Designers */

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‎XUL Editors and Designers

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‎Developer Resources

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‎Hello World

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‎FizzyPop, Or "How I Made My XULRunner Application"

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‎Setting Up a XULRunner Development Environment

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‎Developer Resources

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‎Developer Resources

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‎Applications

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‎Developer Resources

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‎Developer Resources

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 * [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Explorer XUL Explorer] (Similar to the Real-Time XUL Editor above, but as a XULRunner application.)
 * [http://kukuru.s7.xrea.com/xulpix/ XULPIX] (A ''great'' XUL editor; the closest thing to a form designer that we currently have ... without Eclipse! Yucky...)
 [[Category:Developer_Documentation]]

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 * [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL Mozilla Developer Central: XUL Information] (Specifically, the complete [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Reference XUL Reference].)
 * [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner Mozilla Developer Central: XULRunner Information]
 * [http://www.xul.fr/tutorial/ XUL.fr Tutorial]
 * [http://books.mozdev.org/chapters/index.html Creating Applications With Mozilla] (Online book.)

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     <hbox id="main_box" flex="1">
       <vbox id="workspace_box" flex="1">
-       '''''<label value="Hello, World!"/>'''''
+       <span style="color:green;"><label value="Hello, World!"/></span>
       </vbox>
     </hbox>

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 # You can leave the version number and build ID at their default values (note that the "prototype" does not give you any default values) ... or go ahead and punch in some different numbers. It won't matter much.
 # It also requires some author information (that's you!) Enter your name here.
-# Set the Platform Details minimum and maximum version numbers according to the XULRunner runtime version you're using. In my case, minimum is set to "1.9.1.0" and maximum is "1.9.1.*".
+# Set the Platform Details minimum and maximum version numbers according to the XULRunner runtime version you're using. In my case, minimum is set to "1.9.2.0" and maximum is "1.9.2.*".
 # You may leave the other entries blank, or configure them to your liking.
 # Click the final "Create" button, and it will start to download a zip archive containing all of the necessary files and directory structures for a basic XULRunner application.

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 * A text editor of your choosing. If you don't have one with XML/XUL/JavaScript/CSS syntax highlighting, you might want to check out one of the many [http://www.scintilla.org/ Scintilla]-based editors: [http://www.geany.org Geany] is excellent for Linux (GTK+) users, and decent on Windows ([http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html SciTE] is similar); [http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/ Komodo Edit] is excellent on any XULRunner-supported platform (Hooray for XULRunner!); and there are [http://www.scintilla.org/ScintillaRelated.html many others] to choose from.
-* The XULRunner Runtime itself. As of this writing, version 1.9.1.3 (the same version powering Firefox v3.5.3) is the latest stable runtime available. Download from Mozilla: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/1.9.1.3/runtimes/
+* The XULRunner Runtime itself. Download the latest stable version from Mozilla: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/ (Note: Go into the most recent sub-directory and then the "runtimes" sub-directory. You don't need the SDK.)
 After installing the XULRunner runtime and text editor of your choice, you can begin creating a new project template.

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 * [http://books.mozdev.org/chapters/index.html Creating Applications With Mozilla] (Online book.)
 * [http://mb.eschew.org/ Rapid Application Development With Mozilla] (Online book.)
-* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Creating_XPCOM_Components Creating XPCom Components] (Online book.)
+* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Creating_XPCOM_Components Creating XPCOM Components] (Online book.)
 * [http://www.oxymoronical.com/experiments/xpcomref/ Mozilla XPCOM Reference] (All interfaces and components; always kept up-to-date.)
 * [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers Mozilla Add-on Developer Hub] (Mostly related to Firefox add-on development; but useful for XULRunner, too.)

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 * [http://xml.coverpages.org/xul.html Cover Pages: Extensible User Interface Language (XUL)] (Extremely outdated, but historically relevant.)
-====Applications====
+====XUL Editors and Designers====
 I've found these applications helpful, while learning XUL.

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 This is a list of websites relevant to XULRunner and creating applications for it. While this list is produced entirely without any specific order, I've attempted to keep the most important of these near the top.
-* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Tutorial Mozilla Developer Central: XUL Tutorial]
+* [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Tutorial Mozilla Developer Central: XUL Tutorial] (Slightly old, but still one of the best sources of information on XUL.)
 * [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL Mozilla Developer Central: XUL Information] (Specifically, the complete [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL_Reference XUL Reference].)
 * [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner Mozilla Developer Central: XULRunner Information]