[Project_owners] cache folder

[Masry Alex]

to be accessible to the extension to link to because you can't link to 
anything outside the chrome folder or I'll have to use file:// which 
might produce problems on multiple OS


Nickolay Ponomarev wrote:
> On 2/13/07, Masry Alex <masryalex at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>  did you read the code on my previous posts? is there something wrong with
>> the mailing list?
>>     
>
> I haven't seen it. Why do you need to link to images as chrome:// ?
>
> Nickolay
>
>   
>>  here is the code again
>>  function get_image(img){
>>  var defaulturl = 'http://site.com/'+img;
>>  var newurl = 'chrome://ext/skin/cache'+img;
>>  try{
>>  const id = "{extID}";
>>  var file =
>> Components.classes["@mozilla.org/extensions/manager;1"]
>>  .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIExtensionManager)
>>  .getInstallLocation(id)
>>  .getItemLocation(id);
>>  file.append("chrome");
>>  file.append("skin");
>>  file.append("cache");
>>  file.append(img);
>>  if (file.exists()) return newurl;
>>  var obj_URI =
>> Components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/io-service;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIIOService).newURI(defaulturl,
>> null, null);
>>  var obj_Persist =
>> Components.classes["@mozilla.org/embedding/browser/nsWebBrowserPersist;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIWebBrowserPersist);
>>  var cachekey =
>> Components.classes['@mozilla.org/supports-string;1'].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsISupportsString);
>>  cachekey.data = defaulturl;
>>  obj_Persist.persistFlags =
>> Components.interfaces.nsIWebBrowserPersist.PERSIST_FLAGS_FROM_CACHE
>> |
>> Components.interfaces.nsIWebBrowserPersist.PERSIST_FLAGS_CLEANUP_ON_FAILURE;
>>  obj_Persist.saveURI(obj_URI,cachekey,null,null,null,file);
>>  return defaulturl;
>>  }catch(e){
>>  dump(e);
>>  return defaulturl;
>>  }
>> }
>>  I just need a confirm that it works fine on other OS other than windows
>>
>>
>>  eric.jung at yahoo.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>     
>>> I'm trying to link to images using chrome:// which I have to retrieve the
>>>       
>> ext dir not the profile dir to save images
>>
>> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Code_snippets:File_I/O#Getting_your_extension.27s_folder
>>
>>  >save the images in the "local settings" dir - ProfLD key to the directory
>> service, iirc.
>>  What is ProfLD? I'm only familiar with ProfD.
>>
>>
>>
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