I'm writing a simple Addon for Firefox.
There's an option for user to set up a Device Name in Firefox Sync
How to get that name "My PC" in the Addon code?
It's a really simple extension
main.js
var buttons = require('sdk/ui/button/action');
var tabs = require("sdk/tabs");
var deviceName = what.what?
Probably using weave service but I can't figure it out:
var WeaveService = Cc["#mozilla.org/weave/service;1"].getService(Ci.nsISupports);
// Referencing Weave.Service will implicitly initialize sync, and we don't
// want to force that - so first check if it is ready.
/* WeaveService object holds these:
enabled:true
fxAccountsEnabled:true
ready:true
*/
if (WaveService.ready) {
}
So I cheated and read pref value:
var clientEngineName = Services.prefs.getCharPref('services.sync.client.name');
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I am using iOs default PrinterToPrint in Xamarin to print without showing dialog to choose printer but then also it's showing one dialog which says printing to [PRINTER NAME]. Is there anyway to hide the dialog as well. Like complete silent print functionality?
I am not its possible but I have seen some apps which do that and I am not sure whether they are using the same function or not.
Thanks in advance.
Update:
UIPrinterPickerController comes from UIKit and as such there is no way to push the "printing" process to the background and off the main UI thread.
In the current UIPrintInteractionController.PrintToPrinter implementation (currently up to iOS 10.3 B4) there is no exposed way to disable the print progress (Connecting, Preparing, etc...) alart/dialog (w/ Cancel button) or to modify its appearance.
This interface is high level wrapper using AirPrint and thus Internet Print Protocol (IPP) at a lower level to preform the actual printing, job queue monitoring on the printer, etc... IPP is not currently exposed as a publicly available framework within iOS...
Programs that allow background printing are not using UIPrintInteractionController to do the printing. Most do use UIPrinterPickerController to obtain a UIPrinter selection from the user, but then use the UIPrinter.Url.AbsoluteUrl to "talk" directly to the printer via HTTP/HTTPS Post/Get. Depending upon the printers used, TCP-based sockets are also an option vs. IPP and even USB/serial for direct connected printers.
Re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Printing_Protocol
Original:
Pick a Printer:
if (allowUserToSelectDifferentPrinter || printerUrl == null)
{
UIPrinter uiPrinter = printerUrl != null ? null as UIPrinter : UIPrinter.FromUrl(new NSUrl(printerUrl));
var uiPrinterPickerController = UIPrinterPickerController.FromPrinter(uiPrinter);
uiPrinterPickerController.Present(true, (printerPickerController, userDidSelect, error) =>
{
if (userDidSelect)
{
uiPrinter = uiPrinterPickerController?.SelectedPrinter;
printerUrl = uiPrinter.Url.AbsoluteUrl.ToString();
Console.WriteLine($"Save this UIPrinter's Url string for later use: {printerUrl}");
}
});
}
Print using UIPrintInteractionController with an existing UIPrinter:
if (printerUrl != null)
{
// re-create a UIPrinter from a saved NSUrl string
var uiPrinter = UIPrinter.FromUrl(new NSUrl(printerUrl));
var printer = UIPrintInteractionController.SharedPrintController;
printer.ShowsPageRange = false;
printer.ShowsNumberOfCopies = false;
printer.ShowsPaperSelectionForLoadedPapers = false;
var printInfo = UIPrintInfo.PrintInfo;
printInfo.OutputType = UIPrintInfoOutputType.General;
printInfo.JobName = "StackOverflow Print Job";
var textFormatter = new UISimpleTextPrintFormatter("StackOverflow Rocks")
{
StartPage = 0,
ContentInsets = new UIEdgeInsets(72, 72, 72, 72),
MaximumContentWidth = 6 * 72,
};
printer.Delegate = new PrintInteractionControllerDelegate();
printer.PrintFormatter = textFormatter;
printer.PrintToPrinter(uiPrinter, (printInteractionController, completed, error) =>
{
if ((completed && error != null))
{
Console.WriteLine($"Print Error: {error.Code}:{error.Description}");
PresentViewController(
UIAlertController.Create("Print Error", "Code: {error.Code} Description: {error.Description}", UIAlertControllerStyle.ActionSheet),
true, () => { });
}
printInfo?.Dispose();
uiPrinter?.Dispose();
uiPrinter.
});
}
else
{
Console.WriteLine("User has not selected a printer...printing disabled");
}
I know this is a somewhat old thread but I had been struggling with implementing a silent printing in iOS for one of my customers and I finally came across an acceptable solution that is very easy to implement.
As mentioned in the accepted answer there is no way to get rid of the popup that displays printing progress. Yet there is a way of hiding it. You can simply change the UIWindowLevel of your key window to UIWindowLevel.Alert + 100. This will guarantee your current window will display above ANY alert view.
Be careful though, as I mentioned, it will be displayed over ANY alert view after the level has been changed. Luckily you can just switch this level back to "Normal" to get the original behavior.
So to recap my solution. I use UIPrintInteractionController.PrintToPrinter in order to print directly to a printer object I created using UIPrinter.FromUrl (this is Xamarin.iOS code btw). Before doing so, I adjust my window level to alert + 100 and once printing is complete I reset my window level to "Normal". Now my printing happens without any visual feedback to my user.
Hope this helps somebody!
Please help me with Notification in my Firefox add-on.
var notifications = require("sdk/notifications");
function showNotifcation(title, text) {
notifications.notify({
iconURL: data.url("img/icon.png"),
title: title,
text: text
});
setTimeout(notifications.close(), 1000);
}
Not work.
Without more information from you it is not possible to be sure as to what your problem/issue is.
However, a brief look at the sdk/notifications documentation, and source code, indicates that you are attempting to use a non-existent method: notifications.close(). There is no such method in sdk/notifications.
One possible reason for your attempt to use this method is that you are conflating the Web Notification API, more detail, with the Add-on SDK sdk/notifications.
The Add-on SDK, sdk/notifications, has no way for you to programmatically close the notification from your code. Thus, there is no way for you to set a timeout for the notification using this interface. However, in some operating systems/windowing systems there is already a default timeout for these notifications.
You will need to either display a panel on your own, or use the chrome interfaces described in User Notifications and Alerts.
In addition, it would be unusual for you to be able to just call setTimeout(). That will, under most contexts, not be defined. You would normally need to use sdk/timers with:
var { setTimeout } = require("sdk/timers");
In some contexts, you might be able to use window.setTimeout(), when window is appropriately defined (which you will probably have to set yourself).
Modifying the code from my answer to Prevent XUL notificationBox from closing when button is hit (if you want buttons, that answer will show you how to do it), and other answers of mine: Something along the lines of what I believe you desire would be (code for the timeout is at the bottom):
function showNotificationBox(text) {
//Create some common variables if they do not exist.
if (window === null || typeof window !== "object") {
// Add/remove a "/" to comment/un-comment the code appropriate for your add-on:
//* Add-on SDK:
var window = require('sdk/window/utils').getMostRecentBrowserWindow();
//*/
/* Overlay and bootstrap (from almost any context/scope):
var window=Components.classes["#mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1"]
.getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator)
.getMostRecentWindow("navigator:browser");
//*/
}
if (typeof gBrowser === "undefined") {
var gBrowser = window.gBrowser;
}
let notifyBox = gBrowser.getNotificationBox();
//appendNotification( label , value , image (URL) , priority , buttons, eventCallback )
let theNotification = notifyBox.appendNotification(text, "Test notification unique ID",
"chrome://browser/content/aboutRobots-icon.png",
notifyBox.PRIORITY_INFO_HIGH, [], null);
//* Add-on SDK:
var { setTimeout } = require("sdk/timers");
setTimeout(theNotification.close(), 10000);
//*/
/* Overlay and bootstrap:
let timerCallback = {
notify:function notify() {theNotification.close(); }
}
let closeNotificationTimer = Components.classes["#mozilla.org/timer;1"]
.createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsITimer);
closeNotificationTimer.initWithCallback(timerCallback,10000,
Components.interfaces.nsITimer.TYPE_ONE_SHOT);
//*/
}
Note: I changed the timeout to 10 seconds from the 1 second which is in the code in your question. One second is a unreasonable amount of time to expect to show anything which you actually desire the user to see and understand.
The above implements the user notification in a notificationBox. As such it shows up within the Firefox window:
It is also possible to use the nsIAlertsService which is what sdk/notifications uses. This will normally display an alert box in the bottom right of the screen, potentially outside of the Firefox window (see image on nsIAlertsService for example). The notification may show up elsewhere depending on how you have your windowing system set up (this is OS dependent). However, the documentation did not have a method to clear the notification, or set a timeout. However, the interface definition does show that a closeAlert() method does exist. The source code for the sdk/notifications does not expose this to the Add-on SDK. Thus, you would need to use the chrome interfaces. I have updated the documentation to show closeAlert().
Such as (some code taken and modified from nsIAlertsService):
//* Add-on SDK:
var {Cc, Ci} = require("chrome");
//*/
/* Overlay and bootstrap:
const Cc = Components.classes;
const Ci = Components.interfaces;
//*/
function showNotifcation(title, text) {
var alertsService = Cc["#mozilla.org/alerts-service;1"].getService(Ci.nsIAlertsService);
try {
//The second use of title is the alert name.
alertsService.showAlertNotification(icon, title, text, false, "", null, title);
} catch (e) {
// This can fail on Mac OS X
}
//* Add-on SDK:
var { setTimeout } = require("sdk/timers");
setTimeout(alertsService.closeAlert(title), 10000);
//*/
/* Overlay and bootstrap:
let alertTimerCallback = {
notify:function notify() {alertsService.closeAlert(title); }
}
let closeAlertTimer = Cc["#mozilla.org/timer;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces
.nsITimer);
closeAlertTimer.initWithCallback(alertTimerCallback,10000,Ci.nsITimer.TYPE_ONE_SHOT);
//*/
}
I have only tested the above code with a bootstrapped/restartless Firefox add-on. Thus, the Add-on SDK code may be slightly off.
I´m working on a worklight (now mobileFirst) app ment to work on Android and iPhone. One of the issues is that i need to locate the user in some points, in order to notify him/her with a local push notification. Everything seems to work fine while the app is on foreground, but i also need it to work while on background.
i´ve checked the following links among others but nothing works for me yet:
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSHS8R_7.1.0/com.ibm.worklight.dev.doc/devref/t_keeping_app_running_in_background.html
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZH4A_6.0.0/com.ibm.worklight.help.doc/apiref/r_wl_location_geoAcquirePosition.html
This is my code if it helps:
function getFirstPositionAndTrack() {
// use GPS to get the user's location
var geoPolicy = WL.Device.Geo.Profiles.LiveTracking();
geoPolicy.timeout = 60000; // set timeout to 1 minute
geoPolicy.maximumAge = 10000; // allow to use a position that is 10 seconds old
// note: to see at high-accuracy, change RoughTracking above to LiveTracking
// get the user's current position
WL.Device.Geo.acquirePosition(
function(pos) {
// when we receive the position, we display it and start on-going acquisition
WL.Logger.debug("acquired position");
WL.Logger.debug("Longitude: " + pos.coords.longitude);
WL.Logger.debug("Latitude: " + pos.coords.latitude);
var triggers = new Object();
triggers.Geo = {};
var trigger_events = generateTrigger();
triggers.Geo = trigger_events;
WL.Device.startAcquisition({ Geo: geoPolicy }, triggers, { Geo: alertOnGeoAcquisitionErr } );
},
function(geoErr) {
alertOnGeoAcquisitionErr(geoErr);
},
geoPolicy
);
}
//Method that create triggers dinamically
function generateTrigger() {
var trigger_events = new Object();
angular.forEach(json.locations, function(location) {
var trigger = {
type: "DwellInside",
circle: {
longitude: location.longitude,
latitude: location.latitude,
radius: 100
},
dwellingTime: 3000,
callback: function() {
// WL.Logger.info("Enter branch");
// WL.Client.transmitEvent({ branch: "enter branch"}, true);
console.log("Location: "+JSON.stringify(location));
alert("We are in: "+location.name);
}
};
trigger_events["dwellArea_"+location.name] = trigger;
});
return trigger_events;
}
I´m actually trying on iOS, and my info.plist file looks like this:
What i get is nothing while on background, but when i´m back to foreground it seems like i get everything at once. So, it looks like it actually does something, but it doesn´t let you know until you go back to foreground... is there way to keep the worklight process active while on background?
Any help will be appreciated, thanks in advance!
So if I understand the question correctly, you are attempting to make "local notifications" but no where in the code supplied do you show how are you attempting to do that?
Anyway, local notifications are only possible via a Cordova plug-in. See here:
How can i create local Notification in worklight
Using katzer local notification in IBM Worklight
I am using wall.plasm.it and would like to use slimbox to open the images in fullscreen http://www.digitalia.be/software/slimbox
But when I add the slimbox script to my website and click on an image, it just opens the image and redirects me to the image on the server but doesnt start slimbox
Ah, so it seems you would have to do something like the following:
Use wall.setCallOnUpdate( myFunctionUpdate ); (this) to update all newly generated images so that they have the rel=lightbox attribute set.
Reinitialize slimbox.
--OR--
You could simply use the CallOnUpdate to directly enable the slimbox on items using the API
I think you need to use Event Delegation - this is how I got my wall working with lightbox. I called this after the initWall() method and also the changeOnUpdate() so the new events would be added.
var boundClicker;
$$('div.tile a').each(function(button) {
var linkDest = button.get('href');
var title = button.get('data-title');
var type = button.get('rel');
var clicker = function(event)
{
event.stop();
Mediabox.open(linkDest, title, '470 290');
};
boundClicker = clicker.bind(button);
button.addEvent('click', boundClicker);
});
Add a "click" event handler and use the getMovement function.
items.each(function(item) {
item.addEvent("click",function(e){
if( wall.getMovement() ){
e.stop();
}
else {
Mediabox.open(...);
}
}); }
Firefox has a native notification box system:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Code_snippets/Alerts_and_Notifications#Using_notification_box
I'd like to use this system in a way that it appears in all opened tabs when it is supposed to appear. The code I have only warns you in the currently opened tab.
var mainWindow = window.QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsIInterfaceRequestor).getInterface(Components.interfaces.nsIWebNavigation).QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsIDocShellTreeItem).rootTreeItem.QueryInterface(Components.interfaces.nsIInterfaceRequestor).getInterface(Components.interfaces.nsIDOMWindow);
var nb = mainWindow.gBrowser.getNotificationBox();
//...
outdatedNotification = nb.appendNotification("Your information outdated",
'outdate-warn',
'chrome://checksistem/skin/checksistem.png',
priority, buttons);
Each tab has it's own notification box. You just need to loop over all the browsers and add the notification to each one. One thing you should know is the gBrowser.getNotificationBox can take a browser element:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/base/content/tabbrowser.xml#337
If you don't pass a browser, the code returns the notification box for the active tab.
Try this:
var browsers = mainWindow.gBrowser.browsers;
for (var i=0; i<browsers.length; i++) {
var nb = mainWindow.gBrowser.getNotificationBox(browsers[i]);
outdatedNotification = nb.appendNotification("Your information outdated",
'outdate-warn',
'chrome://checksistem/skin/checksistem.png',
priority, buttons);
}