Sorry I am new in firefox addon develop.
Can you help me with using c++ dll in my firefox addon. I know about js-ctypes, but I can't use c++ dll directly in js-ctypes. How can include c++ dll in my addon?
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I need to do a http get in RAD Studio XE5 C++. The tutorials on the RAD Studio site discuss a RESTCLient that is not included with the version I have. I found the Casablanca project, which is specifically for Visual Studio, and I made a small program in VS that does the simple http get and handles response in the way I need.
What do I need to do to successfully use Casablanca from within RAD Studio?
There are the steps I have taken so far.
Compiled Casablanca in Visual Studio 2013
Copied the .lib and .dll over to a folder in the RAD Studio project
added that folder to the link path in the RAD Studio project
added the .lib to the project
added dll imports to classes that should be in the .lib to the .cpp I want to use the function in.
class __declspec(dllimport) http_client;
class __declspec(dllimport) filestream;
class __declspec(dllimport) producerconsumerstream;
class __declspec(dllimport) rawptrstream;
There was a OMF error, and I used a tool that came with RAD Studio to convert the .lib, that got past the error.
I don't know how to declare the dll prototype's of the functions, because the returns types are from a namespace in the library itself so they aren't recognized. http_client is an unrecognized structure.
I tried this as well without the class keyword.
DLLs that export classes are not portable across compilers. So you will not be able to use a Visual Studio compiled DLL in C++Builder if it exports classes. Either flatten the DLL interface to export plain C-style functions instead (and then use C++Builder's command-line IMPLIB tool to create an import .lib file for the DLL, do not use the .lib file created by Visual Studio), or else find another solution.
For instance, C++Builder (and Delphi) ships with Indy 10, which has a TIdHTTP component. You can use its TIdHTTP::Get() method to perform an HTTP GET request. But if you need to actually use REST, you might be better off simply upgrading your XE5 to a version that has TRESTClient available (BTW, Embarcadero's REST classes use Indy internally).
I think pbear's component HTML Components, v 9.45, is just what I need. His free download only has packages for Delphi 2006 and earlier. I have Delphi XE. How would I install his components into my Delphi?
Try this Google code download site THtmlViewer.
Seems to be updated to XE2 version plus Lazarus.
See also this answer to SO question How to display an email images on Pbear Html viewer component?.
Have you considered using Delphi Chromium Embedded? This is the Delphi API for Google's Chromium, which is used by the Google Chrome web browser. Several Delphi versions are supported, including XE and XE2.
Unless you only need rudimentary browser support, it makes sense to use an up-to-date browser with solid support for modern web standards.
The repository includes Delphi sample projects for VCL and FireMonkey.
Is there a synedit package that works with firemonkey (or someone working on it) ?
From what I can gather there was a VGScene port earlier (see: this site), but it seems to been removed.
Also see this site:
There most likely is not (at the moment):
From the homepage:
It is a pure-VCL/CLX control, meaning it is not a wrapper for Microsoft Windows
controls and so no run-time library is required.
CLX or Component Library for Cross Platform is the cross-platform equivalent of the VCL - Borland's widget library.
From Nakeymonkey - native controls for firemonkey
With the VCL, Borland never had to worry about all of this because they just wrote a wrapper around the Windows API Rich Edit control. So why didn’t Embarcadero do the same thing with Firemonkey? Because Firemonkey also needs to compile for OS X and the Windows API Rich Edit control doesn’t exist there.
Links:
Embarcadero Delphi
Qt.pas pascal bindings for QT
Hello Guys:
I have written an activeX dll in Delphi and I want to run in in firefox. How can I do that?
Is there anyway that I can make an .xpt directly form this dll or not?
I'm afraid there is no way to just make an .xpi directly from the DLL. An ActiveX control needs an ActiveX host which Firefox is not, by default. It seems it can be, however, with an installed plugin.
A quick Google search for "firefox activex" reveals:
ff-activex-host
Neptune
Mozilla ActiveX Project (seems abandoned but there's reference and source code for Firefox 1.x)
I need to code a simple form application and I want to make it easy to deploy (without installing libraries or dependencies), I don't want to use visual studio cpp or csharp because clr apps compile with .net frameworks and I have no much experience with mfc and dialogs.
So I was wondering which libraries does a simple delphi vcl forms app (those using TForm) use, because I've never had to install anything to run simple delphi apps.
Delphi embeds everything in the EXE file. There are libraries that depend on BPL or DLL files, but for a simple application, the EXE is all you need...