As of 2 minutes ago, my extension now appears to work in Thunderbird 2 after some fun with nsIEnumerator and nsISupportsArray. The array documentation didn’t show the AppendElement method which, combined with [notxpcom] and [noscript] caused me a headache until I tried it. It also works in Thunderbird 3 with Read more…
After receiving a comment on a previous blog post, I added some preferences and redesigned my preferences dialog. It now has three tabs: Main, Extended, and Address. The wording and layout of the preferences will probably change, but any feedback is welcome. Main Tab All of the main preferences. Name Read more…
After a little bit of programming last night (early this morning, actually) and this afternoon, I can now sync every attribute of an Address Book card that is visible in the Edit Card Dialog and then some. So, here is the most recent list of attributes synced from Address Book Read more…
I have almost finished adding some new attributes to the address book that can be synced with Google. The attributes will work on cards whether they are in the address book being synced or not. The catch: It requires the current patch to Bug 413260, which is temporarily delayed. The Read more…
Refactoring Since the last update, I have finished refactoring all of my code except for the code that converts contacts from one format to the other to make it more object-oriented. Bug 413260 I have applied the most recent patch in Bug 413260, which, among many other things, removes specific Read more…
Introduction Thunderbird stores addresses using 6 fields: 2 lines for the address, the city, the state, the zip code, and the country. Google stores addresses in one field (supports multiple lines). Since these two differ so greatly, it is difficult to synchronize addresses properly. Possible Solution(s): Splitting the address with Read more…
I wanted to test some Unicode characters to see if they would sync properly. So, I made up an e-mail address: üḯǟôÕ@host.com. The e-mail address synced without any error messages, but when I tried to edit the contact in Gmail I was given the following error: “Please enter a valid Read more…
Name of the extension I haven’t figured out a name for the extension yet. I initially named it gcontacts, but that name already exists for several programs. gcontactsync is a potential name. Any suggestions are welcome. SAXParseException While syncing some newly-created cards, I encountered the following error: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The entity Read more…