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List:       mozilla-ui
Subject:    Re: Help! Can you add a toolbar button to netscape?
From:       java <java () public1 ! tpt ! tj ! cn>
Date:       1998-09-07 13:30:58
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Hi:


I am interesting  in add a toolbar button to Netscape too. I think there
may be
two way to do so. The first one may be the plug-in method. I hope some
one could
help us. The second is what we use here: mozilla source. With the source
code we
sure can add a toolbar button. I hope someone could help us too. Of
course the
second way you cannot add a toolbar button to an commercial Netscape
program.
If you get some idea please let me know. Thanks in advance.

GB wrote:

> Hi,
>
> (Let me try again with some more info :)
>
> I want to be able to add a toolbar button or menu to the browser, so that
> when
> the user selects it, I will exec my own application, with the current URL.
>
> I know I can use DDE to get the current URL from the browser while it is
> running, but I want the user to be able to start my app _from_ the browser.
>
> I don't want to use an embedded HTML tag since this won't work for public
> web sites etc.
>
> I have been reading about plug-ins, but these seem to be reactive, rather
> than
> proactive. Either they respond to a MIME type, or they respond to a
> protocol.
>
> I really want the toolbar button to be active at browser start up, for _all_
> pages
> the user goes to.
>
> I am thinking that I could write an OLE protocol handler to respond to
> "http:", so
> it is always active?
>
> Is there a way to do this?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> GB



--
Alan
"Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them."

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