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The intend of this plugin is to have debug output displayed
in firefox, thus enable nice dhtlm features like folding/unfolding
of nested blocks of the debug output.
The plugin is based on the gecko sdk's modules/plugin/test/testplugin
and is a dirty hack. 
Currently only Linux is supported.

The plugin is targeting 2 scenarios:
 - communication using a named linux fifo
 - communication using sockets

Named linux fifos:
------------------

create a named fifo in bash:
$mkfifo /tmp/testfifo

Embed the plugin object in your html file:

For Firefox 3.5:

<embed id="e1" type="application/y-test" width=100 height=100 pipe="/tmp/testfifo"
 ponread="receivedMsg"
>

For Firefox 2.0:
Because NPN_PluginThreadAsyncCall() and NPN_ScheduleTimer() are not supported
in Firefox 2.0 gtk's g_timeout_add() is used to shedule a callback in the
GUI thread. You therefore need to compile the plugin with GTK. You will probably
have to edit the Makefile's GTK_DIRS variable to point to your gtk files.

<embed id="e1" type="application/y-test" width=100 height=100 
 async=0 wmode=window pipe="/tmp/testfifo"
 ponread="receivedMsg"
>
(note the async=0 and wmode=window) 

Each time somebody writes a string to /tmp/testfifo you'll get a message
in javascript "receivedMsg(fd,msg)"

Sockets:
--------

For Firefox 3.5:
<embed id="e1" type="application/y-test" width=100 height=100 >
javascript:
function onServerConnect(fd) {
  alert("onServerConnect:"+fd);
}  
function receivedMsg(fd,msg) {
  $('#area').append(msg); 
}
embed.startServer(5001,"onServerConnect" ,"receivedMsg")

For Firefox 2.0:
Add async=0 on the <embed> tag:
<embed id="e1" type="application/y-test" width=100 height=100 async=0 wmode=window>
(note the async=0 and wmode=window)