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My EarlyLight addon, which is an unofficial build of the Lightning calendar extension, supporting multiple Thunderbird versions, is now available for Thunderbird 14 – 16. This is based on the current Lightning 1.8a2 source (which is now in the aurora directories). Download here: I’ll probably stop supporting this once Thunderbird switches to its slower release cycle.  I got tired of waiting for Lightning to fix their aurora build problems so I decided to practice my newly-acquired Mozilla build foo to build my own. In the process, I extended the usual Lightning build so that I have Lightning that can work with current TB release, beta, and aurora versions, that is Thunderbird 13, 14, and 15. The “source” for this is just a makefile which you can see here. (I added my fix in Mozilla bug 766685 so that I could build this with my VS 2008 on Windows). This will only work in my local build [...] I am pleased to announce that ExQuilla, a Thunderbird addon that provides access to messages and contacts in Microsoft Exchange Server, is now available. This is a beta-quality release. ExQuilla is currently only available for Windows, in English, and supports Thunderbird version 9, 10, and 11. Linux and Mac versions are planned for the future. The most current version of ExQuilla is available from the MesQuilla site here. A slightly older version (due to review delays) is available from Mozilla’s addon site here. This version supports access to messages and personal contacts from a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 or 2010 [...] A common pattern that we see in review of Mozilla addons is code that looks like the following: var myExtension = { saveMe: null, onLoad: function () { this.saveMe = “I am saved”; } } window.addEventListener(“load”, myExtension.onLoad); Unfortunately the value of “this.saveMe” that is used in onLoad is the value from the global window, not the value from the myExtension object. Really the event listener is looking for an object of type nsIDOMEventListener, with a method handleEvent. When it does not find that, it applies some magic and just uses the entered function. Unfortunately, in the process the “this” does [...] New account types in Javascript for Thunderbird (Part 4) Now that I am essentially feature complete in adding Address Book features to my Exchange Web Services implementation ExQuilla, I’d like to discuss how SkinkGlue was used to allow this to mostly be done in JavaScript. As review, SkinkGlue is my attempt to add an interface layer to Thunderbird to allow new account types to be added using javascript. SkinkGlue provides the necessary C++ interfaces to allow standard Thunderbird objects to be created without writing C++ code. SkinkGlue is licensed inder the standard Mozilla licenses, so it could be used by [...] New account types in Javascript for Thunderbird (Part 3) I’ve now released an initial version of my extension TweeQuilla, Twitter for Thunderbird. While the extension provides useful functionality, the main purpose of this exercise was to demonstrate how a Thunderbird account can be created using just javascript. Well almost … there are some binary files needed (called Skinkglue) which are account-independent, and presumably could be made available in the Thunderbird core code to eliminate the need for extension writers to maintain their own C++ compile environment. Unfortunately that binary extension limits this current release to only working under Windows in [...] New account types in Javascript for Thunderbird (Part 2) One of the more difficult challenges in adding new Javascript-based accounts to Thunderbird is the problem of overriding functions of C++ objects in Javascript. C++ objects typically rely on the object inheritance structure of C++, and do not reliably use QueryInterface to force use of xpcom and xpconnect functionality. Even if they did, Javascript does not pass a reference to the underlying Javascript xpconnect object to the C++ object when it finds a C++ object in the prototype chain of an xpcom call. Instead, it passes the C++ object from the [...] For the month of December, I took a reprieve from ExQuilla, my Exchange Web Services extension, and decided to tackle the issue of trying to create new account types in JavaScript in a Thunderbird extension. This blog post is an introduction to that project. More detailed posts on specific issues should follow shortly. Introduction to SkinkGlue I’ve learned a lot about how to create account types in an extension while working with ExQuilla. While ExQuilla is written principally in C++, many of its concepts could be adapted to javascript. I decided to write TweeQuilla, a demonstration extension in javascript that [...] Today I release alpha version 0.2 of ExQuilla Exchange Web Service. This may be downloaded at the AMO site for the ExQuilla. This release adds support for most primary email features, but not the EWS address book or calendar. However, this is still Alpha quality code, which means that many of the features have minor glitches. Major Additions since last release Cross-account message copies and moves Message Filters Junk Processing (though moves of junk messages are not working) Virtual Folders Save message as a file Show message source Message print Improvements in handling of Unicode character sets Further information is [...] Today I released to Mozilla’s addon site a preview release of my Exchange Web Services extension, which I am calling ExQuilla (see the addons page here to download). This is alpha quality software, which means it is usable if you are brave. (I have been using it for a month with my rkent@mesquilla.com email account). There are many, many non-implemented features. Rather than repeat all of that here, I’ll just refer you to the extension description page that I have put up. The most severe restrictions are that this is email only, and there is no attempt to support localization [...] |
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