Firefox to qm

[_pi]

now that i know how to add toolbar buttons and contextmenu items to firefox,
i ask you for ideas how to use it.

main function is pass url to qm.

but its also possible to pass url + title + selection ...

[_pi]

qm in firefox context menu:

[ken gray]

AHHHHH....i just thought of a way to use this but i need your help.

i'd like to have a ff context menu to fire off a macro that will grap the url that i'm hovering over and put it in a text file so i can load them all at once when i go to lunch.

i've got everything except the context menu thing and how to grab the url i'm hovering over.

any help would be very apprciated.

Ken

[_pi]

first install:
ChromEdit Plus Special Edition
http://webdesigns.ms11.net/chromeditpSE.html

and take a look at
http://webdesigns.ms11.net/ChromeFiles.zip

put the attached file into \chrome\UCJSFiles\

On Windows XP/2000, the path is usually %AppData%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\, where xxxxxxxx is a random string of 8 characters. Just browse to C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\ and the rest should be obvious.

this is only neccerary when you want to have an icon in the menu:
add the following code the userChrome.css (you will have to change the path to your qm icon) and restart FF.

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menuitem[label="LaunchQM"]  {
   background-image: url("file:///C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/pi/Eigene Dateien/My QM/qm.png") !important;
   background-position: top left !important;
   background-repeat: no-repeat !important;
}

in the script i call function ff2qm (line 44),

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var args = ["Q","+","M","+ff2qm+","A",[aURI.spec],"context"];

in case you don't the second argument just remove it (example function has to be changed too ).

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var args = ["Q","+","M","+ff2qm+","A",[aURI.spec]];

ff2qm

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/
function [$a1] [lpstr'a2]

sel a2
,case "context"
,,_s=a1
,,_s.setclip
,case else
,,out a1

[_pi]

this way you can pass only one url at a time to qm (no mulitple selection),
but i have a code snippet which could send text selection to qm.
then you would have to parse the selection for urls.

[ken gray]

awesome...thanks.
pretty involved but i'll try to get in going.

[_pi]

i made some progress.

here is an example firefox content menu script

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var LaunchQM = {
    mSchemes: ["file", "ftp", "http", "https"],

    init: function()
    {
        this.mItem = document.createElement("menuitem");
        this.mItem.setAttribute("label", "Tweet! this");
        this.mItem.setAttribute("accesskey", "q");
        document.getElementById("contentAreaContextMenu").addEventListener("popupshowing", function() { LaunchQM.onPopupShowing(this); }, false);
    },

    onPopupShowing: function(aPopup)
    {
        aPopup.insertBefore(this.mItem, document.getElementById("context-sep-" + ((gContextMenu.onLink)?"open":"stop")));
        this.mItem.setAttribute("oncommand", "LaunchQM.launch(" + ((gContextMenu.onLink)?"gContextMenu.linkURI":"gBrowser.currentURI") + ");");
        //this.mItem.hidden = !gContextMenu.onLink && (gContextMenu.isTextSelected || gContextMenu.onImage || gContextMenu.onTextInput);
        this.mItem.setAttribute("disabled", this.mItem.hidden || !this.isSupported((gContextMenu.onLink)?gContextMenu.linkURI:gBrowser.currentURI));
    },

    launch: function(aURI, aApp)
    {
        if (!this.isSupported(aURI))
        {
            throw new Error("LaunchQM: unsupported URI scheme '" + aURI.scheme + "'!");
        }
        
        var qm = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
        try
        {
            var regkey = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/windows-registry-key;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowsRegKey);
            regkey.open(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowsRegKey.ROOT_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\" + (aApp || "QM.EXE"), Components.interfaces.nsIWindowsRegKey.ACCESS_READ);
            iexplore.initWithPath(regkey.readStringValue(""));
            regkey.close();
        }
        catch (ex)
        {
            qm.initWithPath((Components.classes["@mozilla.org/process/environment;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIEnvironment).get("PROGRAMFILES") || "C:\\Program Files") + "\\Quick Macros 2\\qm.exe");
        }
        var focusedWindow = document.commandDispatcher.focusedWindow;
        var winWrapper = new XPCNativeWrapper(focusedWindow, "document", "getSelection()");
        var selection = winWrapper.getSelection().toString();
        var process = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/process/util;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIProcess);
        process.init(qm);
        var args = ["Q","+","M","+ff2qm+","A",[aURI.spec], selection, "context"];
        //var args = ["Q","+","M","+ff2qm+","A",str,"context"];
        process.run(false, args, args.length);
    },

    isSupported: function(aURI)
    {
        return this.mSchemes.indexOf(aURI.scheme) > -1;
    }
};

LaunchQM.init();

the lines
this.mItem.setAttribute("label", "Tweet! this");
var args = ["Q","+","M","+ff2qm+","A",[aURI.spec], selection, "context"];

are very important.
1. set context menu label
2. everything after "A", will be passed to a qm function.

replace "+ff2qm+" with your own function.
your function has to be enclosed with + !!!

you also need to replace LaunchQM to something else.