Re: How to develop the safari plugin ?

		
On Oct 27, 2009, at 2:00 PM, [email protected] wrote:

>>
>>  Now  I want to develop a safari plugin with SIMBL, And I  
>> think the
>> steps were : a) generate a bundle loaded the SIMBL project , and
>> implement a method  - load for the loaded method of plugin ,  
>> and I
>> have implemented it . b) class-dump some methods of safari  
>> framework ,
>> and generate a headfile. c) add the headfile and override those
>> methods and get some DOM objects .  My plugin will attend to  
>> get the
>> flash URL with safari page when it lanuched. But Now I have some
>> problems : one is Which framework and class I can select to get the
>> point . I use the command-line utility : class- dump and use the
>> command :
>> /Applications/class-dump -e /System/Library/Frameworks/
>> WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit > WebKit.h
>> But I didn't generate a file with WebKit.h. And I used another
>> command:
>> /Applications/class-dump -H /System/Library/Frameworks/
>> WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit > WebKit.h
>> But I have few hundreds of files included the file WebKit.h , But it
>> is empty. I still didn't know which methods or files I can select?
>> Tow is when I generate a headfile , I will add it in my project , and
>> How to use it for posing or method swizzing ? I really the greenhand
>> of class-dump and developping SIMBL plugin , can Someone give me some
>> code demo  or advice ? Thank you very much!!!
>
> You don't need class-dump, WebKit as well as its plugin architecture  
> are fully documented in the Xcode documentation. Even the  
> implementation of WebKit is available because it's open source,  
> however there's almost certainly no need to dive into that.
>
> Christiaan
>
SIMBL should no longer be used.
SIMBL uses input managers. This is no longer supported in Snow Leopard.
Reason: SIMBL plugins cause a lot of pain to supporting Safari because  
they were too hidden and frequently caused problems with Safari updates.