Questions tagged [npruntime]
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Basic Plugin (NPAPI / npruntime) Hello world
Backgound steps
Used Mozilla code from here: http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/modules/plugin/tools/sdk/samples/basic/windows/
New Empty Project in Visual Studio & added above files
Changed Congfiguration Type : Dynamic Library (.dll)
3b.…

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Calling java applets via NPAPI / NPRuntime in Chromium
I found this bug: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=580#c69
stating that Chromium doesn't support LiveConnect.
One of the developers responded with
We don't ever intend to support LiveConnect in Chrome. The newest
version of…

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How come NPRuntime require xpt file?
I am trying to make sense of whatever I learned about NPRuntime. Here is a example of NPRuntime plugin from from mozilla-central of NPRuntime plugin, which mentions following lines
// ==============================
145 // ! Scriptability related…

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Problem passing non-ASCII string to NPN_Invoke
My plugin calls JavaScript function using NPN_Invoke, passing a string argument to it. Everything works fine if all characters in it are ASCII. But if there're non-ASCII characters in the string, then JavaScript receives an empty string.
I verified…

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how to test my npapi code i.e xpcom to npruntime changes for my firefox plugin?
I have updated my firefox plugin to work with latest versions of firefox (3.6 and higher) by moving from xpcom to npruntime.
While doing this I have written several wrappers and the only way to test my code seems to be through javascript.
Could…

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XPCOM Plugin Support on FF 3.5+
I have got a plugin which is basically an IE equivalent ActiveX control, that supports scripting. I'm using the IDL file & XPCOM Glue in my Plugin - this works fine upto FF 3.5.
Apparently as I read from several places that XPCOM support for plugins…

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Why does my simple test NPObject not work?
I have this getValue method + NPclass methods:
static bool hasmethod(NPObject *npobj, NPIdentifier name)
{
return true;
}
static NPObject* allocate (NPP npp, NPClass *aClass)
{
return browser-> createobject(npp, aClass);
}
static bool…

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Best way to develop OS free npruntime plugin
I'm going to implement a npruntime plugin which will work on Chrome, Mozilla FF(windows/mac) and Safari(windows/mac). That plugin can draw images and will have some UI control.
I don't want to re-program the plugin for each OS platform if…

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npruntime plug-in installation
i made a simple html page that includes npruntime plug-in and it works fine locally.
of course npruntime object file(npmyapp.dll) has been already registered so browser can load plug-in.
(loading plug-in code is something like ..)
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chrome newer version(14) does not give a null terminated string as part of NPVariant
chrome newer version(14) does not give a null terminated string as part of NPVariant whereas firefox acts differently and gives a null terminated string. Is that expected ??
What can we do other than extracting a string,allocating memory and add…

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How to write a secure NPAPI plugin that would interact only with a specific chrome extension?
I want to write a chrome extension that would automatically (without user interaction) read and upload a file from the local storage based on some event. I understand this is not directly possible because of the security model of the web and…

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npapi plugin having issues with firefox 4.0 and later
I have developed npruntime based plugin for firefox/chrome and its working fine with ff3.6/chrome 10,but when i load any other plugin in firefox 4.0 or later after loading my plugin,then firefox hangs
i.e if I open gmail after my plugin has been…

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chrome detecting integer as NPVariantType_Double with npruntime plugin?
I am trying to call a function through javascript via my NPRuntime plugin
but when i pass an integer value to a function,chrome detects that as NPVariantType_Double while firefox is taking same as NPVariantType_Int32.
Can we do avoid this without…

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How to develop NPRuntime Plugin on Opera in Mac?
I have recently developed the plugin for web browsers on Mac OS X.
Developed by XCode, my bundle located in /Library/Internet Plug-ins.
Chrome, Safari, Firefox catch this plugin but Opera doesn't.
How can my plugin be caught by Opera?

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User settings' persistence in NPAPI?
I was wondering, if there's anything in NPAPI, which supports reading/writing user settings? Currently I use XPCOM, but I want to get rid of this code in order to support other browsers than Firefox.
I understand I can just read/write the file…

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