Hooray for more adventures!
Last week, it was learning how to install this source code. This week, it is about actually seeing the components that make Mozilla Firefox, well... Firefox.
David Humphrey (my professor in the OSD course) offered us a "code search engine"
It basically allows you to "Google" things inside Mozilla code for certian functions, definitions, etc.
I decided to search how Mozilla uses Bookmark Page to keep track of your favorite pages. So I began searching the option itself. Which lead me to a UI definition file, and had the name of the function. That was simple, but it needed more.
Things got complicated there, I was basically searching through 7 files, until I found out that BookmarkPage (the name of a function) was an alias to a Javascript function.
And to another surprise the function PCH_bookmarkPage was only about 60 lines long, excluding closing brackets being on seperate lines (I often do that myself). Not a bad length for saving your webpages.
The function itself basically stores any information about your page in Javascript variables, and then sends you a prompt asking if you want to Bookmark the page. Clicking yes proceeds on to adding your page to the Bookmarks section, no is for ignoring it.
But alas, the "fun" is just beginning. I must now think of a plan for my 0.1 release of the D-Trace program for Mozilla. Because of working at this golf club...
things got out of hand. But in life, we all need to make sacrifices to do something else, just some more than others. The life of a future programmer :(.
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