XUL Explorer

Introduction

XUL Explorer is a simple tool for experimenting with XUL snippets. Type or insert snippets into the editor and you can quickly preview the results.

A small library of XUL snippets is also included to help beginners start exploring different parts of XUL.

Basic Features

Some basic editor-type features have been implemented. Simple previewing and error reporting is also available:

• Opening and saving to files
• Simple printing
• Clipboard operations and Undo/Redo
• Previewing on a seaparate tab or in an external popup window
• Error reporting using the JavaScript Error Console

The Help menu has quick links to the MDC XUL reference, XUL tutorial, and the JavaScript reference.

Snippets

XUL Explorer comes with a small library so XUL and JavaScript snippets. The snippets are displayed in the Snippet panel and are grouped into different categories. you can list all snippets or just those in a specific category

Double-clicking a snippet will insert it into the editor at the current selection. If text is already selected, it will be replaced.

The snippets are stored in a JSON formatted file. You can edit the file to add new snippets if you want.

Simple Keyword Help

Select a XUL element, right-click and pick Keyword Lookup. XUL Explorer launches the Help Browser with the appropiate MDC XUL reference page for that keyword. Currently, this only works for XUL elements, but XUL attributes could be added as well.