Re: Trying to embed mozilla, can't getGREPathWithProperties

Javier Pedemonte wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>> Second, the unix command ' ./xulrunner-bin --find-gre 1.8.0.4' returns
>> the path to the libxpcom.dylib file, but the command './xulrunner-bin
>> --register-global' gives me:
>>
>> "Registration not implemented on this platform!"
>>
>> I assume that this is related to the source o my problems (though I
>> could be way off). Can I register and get GREs on a Mac?
> 
> No, you cannot register XULRunner on a Mac.  Instead, XULRunner is 
> installed as a Framework.  The method Mozilla.getGREPathWithProperties() 
> looks for the installed framework.  If you didn't install XULRunner 
> correctly, then getGREPathWithProperties() will not find it and return 
> null.
> 
>  > File grePath = new File("/Users/myname/sources/mozilla/obj-i686-apple-
> darwin8.8.2/dist/XUL.framework/Versions/1.8.0.4");
> 
> This is your built version and not installed.  The locations that 
> getGREPathWithProperties() will look at are 
> /Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework and ~/Library/Frameworks/XUL.framework.
> 
> 
> javier

I am just starting to learn more about some of these issues, so I hope I 
am not misunderstanding the problem.

The getGREPathWithProperties() is probably looking on the application's 
framework search path.

If this is true, than Javier is correct in that /Library/Frameworks and 
~/Library/Frameworks are the usual suspects on the framework search path 
that people care about.

Note, however, that if one puts a framework inside an application 
bundle, that framework will be picked up first.

So:

	foo.app/
		Contents/
			MacOS/
			Plugins/
			Resources/
			

One usually sees these. But one can also have:

	foo.app/
		Contents/
			Frameworks/

And if the XULRunner.framework appears in there, then foo.app will use 
that particular copy of the framework. I am as sure of this as I can be 
without having ever done this for a XUL-based app. But I do this with 
other java-based (WebObjects) apps all the time.

It is something else to look at.

- ray