Marco Bonardo [:mak] Reporter
	Description • 12 years ago

Please check bug 834457, Places is going to drop some of the old synchronous APIs and we'd appreciate your help in figuring out Chatzilla needs.

	James Ross
	Comment 1 • 12 years ago

Thanks for the heads-up. We need to be able to add URLs to history such that links to that URLs show up visited (they are always irc: or maybe ircs: URLs).

	Marco Bonardo [:mak] Reporter
	Comment 2 • 12 years ago

Provided you use a toolkit with Places (I suppose so) you can use PlacesUtils.asyncHistory.updatePlaces API from javascript, it's asynchronous but I think may be fine for your needs.
From cpp you can use IHistory.h (this is what the docshell does)

	James Ross
	Comment 3 • 12 years ago

My notes:
 - We support Gecko 1.9.1 so existing API must be a fallback.
 - Transition constants are from nsINavHistoryService not nsINavBookmarksService.
 - See browser_newtab_bug722273.js for example code.
 - ChatZilla code in /xul/content/static.js#l920.

I won't be able to get to this this weekend, most likely, but ChatZilla will run fine without nsIGlobalHistory2 existing (though it'll break if the API exists but throws on calling).

	Marco Bonardo [:mak] Reporter
	Comment 4 • 12 years ago

Once the removal is done trying to instantiate an nsIGlobalHistory2 service instance should throw, since there will be nothing implementing the interface. you should not even be able to call its APIs then.

	Marco Bonardo [:mak] Reporter
	Comment 5 • 12 years ago

I admit my ignorance here, is chatzilla code shared/same as comm-central /extensions/irc code? I see this http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mozilla/extensions/irc/xul/content/static.js#926 and I'm not sure if it requires a separate bug.

Btw, notice the removal in central may happen shortly (a couple days or beginning of the next week)

	Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]
	Comment 6 • 12 years ago

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] from comment #5)
> I admit my ignorance here, is chatzilla code shared/same as comm-central
> /extensions/irc code? [...]

comm-central mozilla/extensions/irc is a clone of the Chatzilla repository. Running "python client.py checkout" in a comm-central clone pulls the latest updates (or, for missing repositories, clones them) as follows:

comm-central    at ./
mozilla-central at ./mozilla/
ChatZilla       at ./mozilla/extensions/irc/
Venkman         at ./mozilla/extensions/venkman/
DOM Inspector   at ./mozilla/extensions/inspector/
LDAP SDK        at ./ldap/sdks/

Building SeaMonkey includes building the three extensions in ./mozilla/extensions/ above, plus the Debug and QA UI, as four XPIs packed in seamonkey/distribution/extensions/ which is where you can find them after downloading SeaMonkey from the ftp server and installing it.