I have a nwjs app that was built using nwjs-builder to create mac application (MyApp.app) and then packed into dmg image with node-appdmg.
If i don't have any version of my app in Applications folder yet, I get this dialog when I double click on the app in mounted dmg image:
And when I click 'install' i get this:
Now my question is - can I control this behaviour somehow? Disable that installation offer, or find out how does it try to install and why does it fail? Could not find any clues inside generated build or in nwjs-builder or in node-appdmg.
Here is what I found. The dialogs and installation code is not a part of nwjs, but chromium (chromium.src/chrome/browser/mac/install_from_dmg.mm).
I found 2 ways to disable installation request.
Make dmg writable - add format: "UDRW" to appdmg settings.
nwjs accepts chromium arguments by 'chrome-args' key in manifest. Specify --no-first-run to disable installation request. But this is a risky way, no first run key might affect many internal processes.
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Previously, I could write an addon for personal usage packed as something.xpi and I clicked on it to install it.
After a while, mozilla introduced xpinstall.signatures.required which you could still get around it.
However, it did not stop stabbing developers who are interested to have a personal addon isolated from the world. Today, only web extensions are working and my XUL based addon is thrown away. The tutorials only talk about temporary installation of a web extension while I want my one runs on firefox forever.
Beside whether I can use web extension to write into files or create a GUI in an independent page, I have a bigger challenge:
How can I install a local web extension permanently without creating a Mozilla account for personal usage?
Navigate to the folder where your extension is located. You can build it in the usual way using web-ext:
web-ext build
You can install this ZIP file permanently in Firefox by going to about:addons and dragging this file into the tab.
In order for this to work, you need to set xpinstall.signatures.required to false in about:config (works only for Nightly and maybe Developer Edition).
Apart from setting xpinstall.signatures.required to false, you need to add this to your manifest.json:
"browser_specific_settings": {
"gecko": {
"id": "some-name#example.org"
}
}
Found on https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/blqffs/how_to_permanently_add_temporary_addon/exh2u3o/, thanks to "alexherbo2".
You need a "blueish" Firefox -- Developer Edition (effectively beta) or Nightly (unstable, updated every night).
You can get them from https://mozilla.org/firefox/channel/desktop/.
Then xpinstall.signatures.required will work again.
(As for permissions--you can create a GUI in a tab or a popup, but I don't think you can do it in a separate window (unless you do a webpage-style popup window). You won't be able to write to arbitrary files anywhere on the system--which is a good thing! You can write to the Downloads folder, and read/write some sort of internal storage, but that may not expose the actual files involved. For more information see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Working_with_files.)
What you should be looking for is having your extension signed by Mozilla as Unlisted.
See Mixing Listed and Unlisted Add-ons on addons.mozilla.org blog post for an overview.
That way, AMO does not host nor (normally) review your extension; it simply runs some basic automated checks and immediately signs your extension so that it can be privately distributed as an XPI.
For those interested in developing/running an extension from a local directory without having to package or load it manually via "Load Temporary Addon..." from about:debuggin#/runtime/this-firefox please go to this github repository.
From the README.md:
The procedure involves a few steps, but it needs to be done only once.
First you need to enable AutoConfig aka userchrome.js by copying the file config-prefs.js to [Your Firefox install directory]/defaults/pref
Note: For best security, on Windows it is best to leave your Firefox install in "c:\Program Files" so that your config-prefs.js and userChrome.js can only be modified when you are in root/admin mode.
Then you need to edit the file userChrome.js and modify the function installUnpackedExtensions() to reflect the locations of your own addons.
The modified userChrome.js then must be copied to your Firefox installation directory. For example on Windows this is usually "c:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox" for the 32-bit version of Firefox. You can rename the file, but remember to modify the corresponding line pref("general.config.filename", "userChrome.js") in defaults/pref/config-prefs.js
Now your addons from your local directories will be loaded automaticaly whenever Firefox starts. After editing your code remember to reload it from about:debuggin. You can also get there via the menu by selecting "More Tools", then "Remote Debugging", and click on "This Firefox" on the left side (but the quickiest way is to bookmark it and then add a bookmark keyword such as "dbg" for quick access.)
Please note that this is an automated install of the extension every time Firefox starts, so it is not quite the same as a "permenent install". That is, this procedure has exactly the same effect as clicking on "Load Temporary Addon..." from the about:debuggin page, just that the process is now automated via userChrome.js. This means that if you have code that does something after the installation of the extension such as browser.runtime.onInstalled.addListener(details => { if (details.reason == "install") { ...do something after install... }); then this code will be called every time Firefox is launched.
You can try setting the preference extensions.legacy.enabled (this will only work in Nightly or Dev Edition).
I'm trying to develop an extension to run on the FirefoxDeveloperEdition (which doesn't require signing) on mac.
I followed the "Your first WebExtension" guide and everything works fine when using the "Load temporary add-on". But when I try to package it and install it using the "install add-on from file", it shows "this add-on could not be installed because it appears to be corrupt".
I zip all the files (borderify.js, manifest.json, icons, without the container folder) and change the suffix to .xpi. Is this the correct way of packaging? some answers mention that there should be a "install.rdf" ?, if so, how can I create that file? it seems there is no guide on the docs.
UPDATE:
I've tried using the mac builtin "compress n items", xpi file, also tried using web-ext build, xpi file. they all end up with the same error alert.
UPDATE 2:
I've set xpinstall.signatures.required false in about:config.
My firefox version is: 51.0a2 (2016-10-17) (64-bit)
Is there anyone able to load the unsigned xpi? Is it a Firefox bug? or is it just me?
If you want to install .xpi, you need to provide an id.
Add this to your manifest.json root
"applications": {
"gecko": {
"id": "borderify#mozilla.org",
}
}
It's not particularly well documented, specifically this page tells that "add-on will be assigned a randomly-generated temporary ID when you install it in Firefox.". However, that only seems to work for installing over about:debugging - xpi installation still requires an ID. It might be any string, since you've running it on DevEdition with disabled checks anyway.
Goes without saying, that would not work on release Firefox.
P.S: Ctrl-Shift-J will open a browser console that will usually contain additional information about the extension installation error - might be useful next time.
I am running calabash-cucumber in xcode 5.0.1 on OSX 10.9.1, but getting this error while executing the test script. I have installed calabash framework successfully, but don't know why this error occurs.
Error... Unable to find APP_BUNDLE_PATH.
Cannot find a built app that is linked with calabash.framework
Please build your app from Xcode
You should build your calabash target.
Alternatively, specify APP_BUNDLE_PATH in features/support/01_launch.rb
This should point to the location of your built app linked with calabash.
(RuntimeError)
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/calabash-cucumber-0.9.168/lib/calabash-cucumber/launch/simulator_helper.rb:178:in `app_bundle_or_raise'
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/calabash-cucumber-0.9.168/lib/calabash-cucumber/launcher.rb:307:in `relaunch'
/Users/mymac/Desktop/myproject/myproj/features/support/01_launch.rb:29:in `Before'
Does your simulator or device contain the YourApp-cal target installed? Check weather you run the YourApp-cal target once from the xcode to install the app with calabash server on simulator or device.
Then Check you have followed setup Process
You need to have xcode tools installed too.
Check these things too.
Build the yourApp-cal target and run using xcode once.
While App is running open a Terminal(console) and type calabash-ios console. If your ruby environment is correct it will open you a ruby console.
In that console type
server_version['version']
and
Calabash::Cucumber::FRAMEWORK_VERSION
you should get something like "0.9.164"
calabash.framework is installed correctly in your app.
If so You should go to the file /YourProject/features/support/01_launch.rb open it check weather app bundle path is specified or not (if it is commented out calabash automatically detect the default app bundle path) if you are building your app to somewhere else than the default place you need to specify the appbundle path here in this file.
Tell us more details after check this list so we can help you more..
I hit the same issue, the way I got around to it is, on Xcode's top-right corner there is "Identity and Type" window. There you will find the full path of anything that you select on left (Project Explorer window).
Now usually on the ProjectExplorer window you should have "Classes", "Common", "Frameworks", "Other Sources", "Product", "Resources", "Scripts" etc. (It might be slightly different project by project). Inside "Product" is where your .app lives.
Select your app and you'll see the whole path on "Identity and Type" window.
Copy and paste it to "support/launch.rb" where it says APP_BUNDLE_PATH.
Should work now.
Edit 29/07/14: Do you see
HTTPServer: Started HTTP server on port 37265 on 'All output' window of Xcode (my version of Xcode is 5.1) when you build ?
There is a better way to set up calabash so you won't have this problem.
It involves creating a configuration, rather than a -calabash target. Basically you
1. create a configuration
2. add calabash framework to that configuration in build settings
3. add framework search path to find that framework
4. create a scheme to run calabash
The longer version can be found
http://fangmobile.com/2014/05/08/do-you-love-calabash-ios-but-hate-that-cal-second-target/
Deleting the contents of /Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData and compiling again solved this problem for me.
My error message was Unable to auto detect APP_BUNDLE_PATH.
I must be missing something. After downloading AntlrWorks2 I found the executable bin/antlrworks2.exe and bin/antlrworks264.exe. Aren't these supposed to be the standalone version of the tool? Neither works for me; after a NetBeans splash screen, the first times around I got an error message on missing packages; after a couple of times I chose to go on regardless, but now (still after the initial spash screen) there is simply nothing happening at all.
I can't find any tutorial or manual detailing how to run AntlrWorks stand-alone, so any help is much appreciated.
This is due to a bug in the NetBeans platform. I filed a report but it hasn't received a reply yet:
Cannot launch platform application after moving installation folder
Here is a workaround that does not delete any preferences you have customized:
I found that deleting just the var folder under the user's generated
.antlrworks2 settings folder resolves the issue...
Still an issue as of date of this post. Deleting the .antlrworks2 folder from \users\username\AppData\Roaming does work - you can find this folder by putting %APPDATA% into your file explorer address bar (exactly as shown) - that will go to the app data folder for your current user login session. Delete the .antlrworks2 folder and then re-run the app.
I have been developing an OSX app with Delphi XE3 and running into various problems. The latest one is with the sanboxed version built for the Apple Appstore.
The user has to select an arbitrary folder and the app needs to get access to it. Since there is a problem with the OpenDialog, I had to turn to drag-drop functionality instead.
The user drags a folder to the app, the sandbox gives the app temporary access to it and all works properly.
To preserve the access to this folder when the app is restarted I have to use the so-called "security-scoped bookmarks"
I am having two issues with them:
1) How to add the "com.apple.security.files.bookmarks.app-scope" entitlement to an XE3 firemonkey app? It is not available in the Project Options->Entitlements. If I add it manually in the ".entitlements" file it gets overwritten when the app is built.
So is there a way to add a custom entitlement that is not in the list in the project options?
2) To create the bookmark I should use the NSURL.bookmarkDataWithOptions method. I think it should be used like this, but I am not sure of the exact syntax:
var
URL: NSURL;
Err: NSError;
Data: NSData;
...
URL := TNSURL.Create;
Data := URL.bookmarkDataWithOptions(NSURLBookmarkCreationWithSecurityScope, nil, #Err);
...
Maybe there should be a call to Wrap(...) instead of Create.
I have not yet experimented with it, because it is pointless without the answer to issue 1).
It seems no one has written anything about these problems for Delphi, but I hope someone here has experience with that.
Thanks in advance.
Edit:
For problem 1) I tried to add edit manually the ".entitlements" file in the OSX32 folder and set it to read-only to prevent it from being overwritten. It was too easy to be true of course, because the linker complained that the file can not be modified...
OK, I finally found the way to manually add entitlements that are not available in the Project Options > Entitlements.
Instead of selecting the "App Store" build in the Project Manager you have to select a Normal release build and deploy the application as usual.
The application gets deployed in the PAServer scratch-dir as APP package. Inside this package there is an "Entitlements.plist" file, which is in XML format and can be edited with a text editor. It is quite obvious how to add new entitlements once you open the file.
After it is edited, the app has to be code-signed manually and a package has to be prepared. It is slightly more complicated than using the Delphi IDE, but there are instructions about it on the Embarcadero and Apple websites and it actually went without problems.
Still haven't tried the bookmarkDataWithOptions functions.
An alternative could be to deactivate the checkbox for the entitlements-file in the deployment page.
But attention: Evry time you change between Build/Release or App Store/Normal, delphi activates the checkbox. That means you have to deactivate it again in the deplayment-page, to avoid the transfer of this file to the mac PC.
By the way: Do you have tryed meanwhile the StartAccessingSecurityScopedResource function?
In the MacApi.Foundation unit the function is not declared in the NSURL interface.
Do you have found a way to use this function?