modifying the browser

so I decided to go ahead and try this little lab; and ran into a few problems. The point of the lab was to modify the browser so that a new tab was created in between an active and the primary tab created instead of appending at the end like it normally does.

In my first attempt; i had the browser do nothing. The tabs just kept popping up at the end every time a new tab was created. But finally with the help of a couple of my class mates (Vincent and Rueen) i was able to implement the modification successfully.

I then updated my Wiki with the necessary CVS diff file to show the lines that were added to which file in order to modify the tab behaviour.

I am still fighting with extensions and having a problem understanding why the overlay wont work properly

extensions, extensions, extensions

Lately I have fallen back in my blogging; thanks to intricate family issues; which I will not bring up here. But I am going to try and revive my blog; I have spent some time working on extensions to no avail; but my understanding of how an extension works and how it aids a user in simplifying a task has grown.

I also will be completing last weeks labs and updating my blog more frequently.

CVS diff finished

yes it finally finished!! and i looked at the patch file that was created; also i looked at the code Mike Shaver added to the nsThread.cpp file. This man sure knows his c++

LXR/MXR

I must say this is a very impressive little tool. Who ever came up with this idea; needs the nobel price now!!! Ok ok; maybe I am over exaggerating. In all honesty when I first saw it; i was more so intimidated by it. But It can come in handy at any time, its a great reference; as I found out in the lab class of dps 909; but like everything new it gets some getting used to.

my CVS diff is still going at it.....sigh!

Applying Mike Shavers patch

Well I read Mike's comment on my blog; and looks like I made a very obvious mistake; I was in the wrong directory. Looks like my inexperience with open source is shining bright right now.
All of this scares me in a way.

I went into the right directory; the xpcom directory. And i applied the patch and it worked fine; did a "make" in a parallel directory (objdir).

Then I ran the CVS diff; well its still doing the diff and my xp on its last legs; so i need to reformat or switch to ubantu. I was really impressed with Ubantus performance last night when I was sitting side by side with one of my peers and doing the incremental build; and when we both did cvs diff; it took his machine only 5 mins or so; mine took over 20mins; and what hurts more is i have better hardware..oh well...

Incremental build Lab...problems

so i figured Id try this lab; since it is crucial to the future project work we are going to do. Anyways my experience with this incremental build was rather trouble free.
a) I got the zip file from tel2096@proximity.senecac.on.ca
b) got the .mozconfig from the dps909 thursday class
c) ran the build successfully (45mins or so later)
d) Time to start the incremental build; i made a change to a file (nsHttpBasicAuth.cpp). ; did a make on a parallel directory as instructed by the lab directions

creating the patch file from using the

$ cvs diff -u8p . > patch.txt 
and heres a print screen of the output patch file I got.

highlighted in light blue is the changes that i put in as per the labs instructions.

e) Well time to add someone elses patch to it and see what happens. I was able to get vincent lams patch and use it to try and apply his patch. well no problems here as well.
f) Well i did do the revert patch to see if it would work; and it worked fine. Did not have any problems there
g)NOW THIS IS WHERE I HAD PROBLEMS! Trying to apply a real patch!! from Mike Shaver
Again I followed instructions to the T. But I ran into this problem; heres a print screen of what I ran into
Seems like we have a different version of the build of Firefox that Mike Shaver used; since its asking for a file to patch? or am i missing something? Any ideas suggestions?

oops forgot to run the build

Well i guess i was happy that the build completed; but forgot to run the build as bakinblak commented on my previous post. Anyways my results after running the build were the same as what others yielded. Although I was getting some assertion errors.