[Edit: Spelling - Did you know that google said I misspelled gobbledigook… how can you misspell gobbledigook!?!]

Ok, so my group feels that they want to use a different gui toolkit/platform other than Mozilla. Considering the problem’s I’ve been having (for the last two consecutive weekends) I have trouble blaming them. However supportive Dave may be, in the end he needs an assignment to mark.

I feel very frustrated by this whole Mozilla fiasco. I’ll go e-mail people later on about it because while we’re not doing using it for this project, I’m stuborn and don’t like to find out I can’t do something (*GRRRR*). So I will get something working with Mozilla (even if its only XullRunner) or die trying. I hope it won’t have to come to that, but let’s be realistic.

I have pretty much totally given up on “Embedding Mozilla”, and the term now confuses me. I tried to make a xullrunner up following the tutorial at http://blogs.acceleration.net/ryan/archive/2005/05/06/1073.aspx. Here’s what Xullrunner outputs (I compiled it with debugging) - oh and let’s forget that it takes about a minute to ouput all this:

———————————————————
Vendor Tom
Name xullAppTest1
Version 0.1
BuildID 100206
Copyright (null)
Flags 00000000
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Type Manifest File: /home/mystic/.tom/xullapptest1/izzzn0lk.default/xpti.dat
*** Registering xpcomObsoleteModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering xpconnect components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsUCvMathModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsUConvModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsI18nModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering necko_core_and_primary_protocols components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering necko_secondary_protocols components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsJarModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsPrefModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsSecurityManagerModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsRDFModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsParserModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsGfxPSModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsGfxGTKModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsWidgetGtk2Module components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsImageLib2Module components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsPluginModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsLayoutModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering docshell_provider components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering embedcomponents components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering Browser_Embedding_Module components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsEditorModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsCJVMManagerModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsAccessibilityModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering appshell components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsTransactionManagerModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsComposerModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsChromeModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsMorkModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsFindComponent components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering application components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering Apprunner components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering CommandLineModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsToolkitCompsModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering RemoteServiceModule components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering nsSoftwareUpdate components (all right — a generic module!)
*** Registering JavaScript_Debugger components (all right — a generic module!)
nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering begins.
nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering succeeded
nsNativeComponentLoader: registering deferred (0)
pldhash: for the table at address 0×80d6d10, the given entrySize of 44 probably favors chaining over double hashing.
WARNING: NS_ENSURE_TRUE(NS_SUCCEEDED(rv)) failed, file /home/mystic/mozilla/xulrunner/mozilla/chrome/src/nsChromeRegistry.cpp, line 1245
GFX: dpi=96 t2p=0.0666667 p2t=15 depth=24
++WEBSHELL == 1
++DOMWINDOW == 1
++DOMWINDOW == 2
++WEBSHELL == 2
++DOMWINDOW == 3
Couldn’t convert chrome URL: chrome://xullapptest1/content/startPage.xul
WARNING: NS_ENSURE_TRUE(NS_SUCCEEDED(rv)) failed, file /home/mystic/mozilla/xulrunner/mozilla/intl/strres/src/nsStringBundle.cpp, line 273
Note: styleverifytree is disabled
Note: frameverifytree is disabled
###!!! ASSERTION: Frame abuses NS_FRAME_OUTSIDE_CHILDREN flag: ‘Not Reached’, file /home/mystic/mozilla/xulrunner/mozilla/layout/generic/nsFrame.cpp, line 4359
Break: at file /home/mystic/mozilla/xulrunner/mozilla/layout/generic/nsFrame.cpp, line 4359
Note: verifyreflow is disabled

And then it hangs. Most of that is gobbledigook to me, but there are a few things I understand:

1. It didn’t understand a chrome url. Chrome is a special URL type for privileged Gecko code execution (you can access the disk, etc).
2. An assertion failed. That’s bad. I don’t know why Frame is abusing NS_FRAME_OUTSIDE_CHILDREN but abusing children is bad and I support mozilla in asserting that.
3. A number of things that should have been “ensured true” have failed. (see the above warnings).

I think its obvious that I don’t have the least clue about what this actually means.

I also think that the site name is becoming frighteningly appropriate and I thank God that I didn’t register “reasoable-and-rational-tastic”.

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