Re: is there a common way in Mozilla and Firefox to copy additional files in install time?

Marja <[email protected]> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:17:15 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xpinstall
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
HJ wrote:
> Marja wrote:
> 
>> In Firefox I understand that the additional files that are not 
>> Preferences (e.g. some example files) can go to Defaults folder when 
>> installing a package.
>>
>> So I started using Defaults instead of Chrome folder and run into 
>> problems.
>>
>> Firefox install.rdf understands the Defaults structure from the .xpi 
>> file (at least in documentation), but in Mozilla install.js I cannot 
>> find how I should refer to that folder with getFolder(). DefRt does 
>> not seem to work.

HJ!

I wrongly thought "Program" keyword (javascript has keywords in 
uppercase) was for the "Program files" type of folder but it for the 
mozilla/dist/bin folder. Now everything makes much more sense :-).

Thanks!

Marja

>>
>> Please help!
>>
>> Marja
> 
> 
> Here are a few examples:
> 
> const G_PROGRAM        = "program";
> const G_PROGRAM_DIR    = getFolder(G_PROGRAM);
> const G_DEFPREF_DIR    = getFolder(G_PROGRAM, "defaults/pref");
> const G_DEFPROFILE_DIR = getFolder(G_PROGRAM, "defaults/profile");
> 
> Have fun now,
> /HJ