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XULRunner applications, extensions, and themes all share a common directory structure, and in some cases the same bundle can be used as a standalone XULRunner application as well as an installable application extension.

目录

[编辑] 一个Bundle的基础结构

一个bundle可以包括如下文件:

/install.rdf                        扩展/主题安装配置文件
/application.ini                    应用启动配置文件
/components/*                       组件和XPT文件      (>=1.7)
/defaults/preferences/*.js          缺省属性          (>=1.7)
/plugins/*                          NPAPI插件                (>=1.8)
/chrome.manifest                    Chrome注册配置文件 (>=1.8)
/chrome/icons/default/*             Window图标                 (>=1.8)

当然,一个扩展不必(并且通常不会)有所有这些目录。主题由于安全原因受到限制,通常只提供一个chrome.manifest注册和一个JAR文件。

[编辑] Platform-特殊的子目录

In some cases a single extension or application may wish to include binary component or plugins for multiple platforms, or theme authors might want to include multiple platform-specific JAR files. To facilitate the first case, the extension/app loader has special sub-directories specifically for platform-specific files (starting with Toolkit/Gecko 1.8, Firefox/Thunderbird 1.5). The platform string is defined during the toolkit build process to a value unique for the combination of operating system, processor architecture and compiler. The format of the platform string is:

{OS_TARGET}_{TARGET_XPCOM_ABI}

All of the files which are loaded from the main extension directory are loaded from the subdirectory

/platform/{platform string}

if it exists. 比如, 如果一个插件厂商想为运行Linux, Macintosh, 和Windows操作系统客户电脑提供一个可用的插件,它将提供如下文件:

/platform/Linux_x86-gcc3/plugins/libMyPlugin.so
/platform/WINNT_x86-msvc/plugins/MyPlugin.dll
/platform/Darwin_ppc-gcc3/plugins/libMyPlugin.dylib

因为XPT文件没有平台指定,任何相关的XPT文件将被放在一般的组件目录下:

/components/MyPlugin.xpt

If an extension has non-binary platform-specific code (such as code which uses the windows registry from script), it can also use just the operating system identifier as a platform-subdirectory:

/platform/WINNT/components/registerDoctype.js

When platform-specific JAR files are used, each platform directory should have its own chrome.manifest file:

chrome.manifest
chrome/mytheme-base.jar
platform/Darwin/chrome.manifest
platform/Darwin/chrome/mytheme-mac.jar
platform/WINNT/chrome.manifest
platform/WINNT/chrome/mytheme-win.jar

The app/extension loader processes the base directory first, followed by the applicable platform directories (first /{OS_TARGET}/, then /{OS_TARGET}_{TARGET_XPCOM_ABI}/). When default preferences are defined in several directories, the ones loaded later overwrite the earlier ones.

[编辑] Application-specific Extension Files

In addition to the extension files listed above, applications may read additional files from extensions. For example, Firefox 1.5 and greater will read Sherlock search plugins from

/searchplugins/*.src

Firefox 2 and greater will additionally read MozSearch and OpenSearch plugins from

/searchplugins/*.xml

and Myspell dictionaries from

/dictionaries/*.{aff|dic}

[编辑] Official References for Toolkit API