I'm a student at a University Institute of Technology in France and I'm very new to Firefox add-on development since I discovered it at the beginning of my work placement, a few days ago.
What I have to do is an add-on that allows employees of the company to organize SCRUM-meetings (it deals with agile software development).
For the moment, what I've done looks like this :
http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/716589MeetingConfigurationPanel.png
The panel allows users to configure the settings of the meeting. I have also added a toolbar with action buttons and a frame in it, so that the meeting can start/be interrupted on the action buttons Onclick event. I have implemented countdown timers for each participants. There is also a "Next Speaker Button" that resets one of the timers when clicked...
And all seems to work fine when I use cfx run, but when I package the extension using cfx xpi... there are errors.
See : http://img11.hostingpics.net/thumbs/mini_585083outputExpected.png
EDIT : Problem with the link. I will update it as soon as possible.
Here is what I have in cfx run mode. All the buttons I declared in the code, along with the frame, are correctly displayed in the toolbar.
But in cfx xpi mode, some of the buttons are apparently "stuck" in what Browser Console refers to as "inner-toolbar" or something like that as I can read when I remove the extension.
That made me wonder if the buttons really were in the toolbar. And they were, according to the Debugger. So I've started thinking that my problem was compatibility with Firefox but I've checked both Firefox version and the em:maxVersion attribute in the install.rdf file that can be found when unpacking the xpi/zip file, and I've change the values so that they match, but it didn't resolve my problem.
I've read as many things as possible on topics related to the problem I'm now facing (including StackOverflow questions) but I have not been able to find a proper way to fix it up to now. Is my problem really different ? I have no idea. I might have done something bad trying to change things as they were intended to, I suppose. But it's unlikely.
And the thing is that I really need to make this add-on works, because it is the only thing I will work on during my work placement.
The solution to my problem may be very simple. Maybe I did something really stupid. I don't know. The only thing I know for sure is that I want to find what's going on, so that I will be able to deliver the first version as soon as possible.
Feel free to ask for more informations if necessary.
Thanks for reading.
Julien B.
(Not technically an answer but SO won't let me comment.) You could try cfx run, then uninstalling the addon from the FF session it opened, then installing the xpi in that same session by doing a file open of the xpi (which will install it). Have a feeling it will run in that case, which means there is a difference between your standard Firefox and the one cfx run opens. There is a difference of course, because cfx run doesn't install all your other add-ons. But it may be running a different Firefox version as well. I mention this because when I run cfx run it always opens the beta version of FF which I downloaded at some point, and I don't know where its picking it up from.
