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8.) Restart Sunbird and observe the 'Hello World!' greeting. | 8.) Restart Sunbird and observe the 'Hello World!' greeting. | ||
=== Finding a bug to fix=== | === Finding a bug to fix=== | ||
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* Don't be afraid to ask for help! | * Don't be afraid to ask for help! | ||
=== Useful | === Useful tools === | ||
* [irc://irc.mozilla.org IRC] - Sunbird and Lightning hackers and reviewers like to hang out in the #calendar channel on irc.mozilla.org. They're usually more than happy to answer your questions if you get stuck on a part of a patch. '''Be patient''' when asking questions, though. Hackers have to sleep, eat, and work too, so it may take several hours before someone sees your question and responds. | * [irc://irc.mozilla.org IRC] - Sunbird and Lightning hackers and reviewers like to hang out in the #calendar channel on irc.mozilla.org. They're usually more than happy to answer your questions if you get stuck on a part of a patch. '''Be patient''' when asking questions, though. Hackers have to sleep, eat, and work too, so it may take several hours before someone sees your question and responds. | ||
* [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ LXR] - Great for searching the mozilla codebase for examples, particular code lines, etc. | * [http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/ LXR] - Great for searching the mozilla codebase for examples, particular code lines, etc. | ||
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* [http://www.geocities.com/gekacheka/moz/tool/FileBugReport/index.html File Bug Report] extension adds "File Sunbird Bug Report" to Sunbird's tools menu. Opens new Calendar bug report page, filling the build-id field with Sunbird's userAgent id (not the browser's). | * [http://www.geocities.com/gekacheka/moz/tool/FileBugReport/index.html File Bug Report] extension adds "File Sunbird Bug Report" to Sunbird's tools menu. Opens new Calendar bug report page, filling the build-id field with Sunbird's userAgent id (not the browser's). | ||
* [http://www.geocities.com/gekacheka/moz/tool/leakmon/index.html Leak Monitor] patched to be installable in Sunbird. | * [http://www.geocities.com/gekacheka/moz/tool/leakmon/index.html Leak Monitor] patched to be installable in Sunbird. | ||
=== Useful settings === | |||
* You can receive [[http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Setting_up_extension_development_environment more debug messages]] with some preference settings. | |||
* You can work within directories rather than JAR files. This eliminates the need to rebuild the jar files after a debug cycle. To work within <tt>chrome/calendar.jar</tt> extract this file to <tt>chrome/calendar</tt> and change the file <tt>calendar.manifest</tt> to: | |||
# Settings for working with a directory structure instead of calendar.jar | |||
skin calendar classic/1.0 calendar/skin/classic/calendar/ | |||
content calendar calendar/content/calendar/ | |||
content branding calendar/content/branding/ xpcnativewrappers=yes | |||
=== Other possibly useful links === | === Other possibly useful links === | ||