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Welcome to the Flock developer website. You will find here documentation and tutorials to write add-ons to Flock, as well as instructions about how to contribute code source to the Flock project. The current documentation is valid for Flock 0.9.x or later.

Extend Flock

• Adapt a Firefox extension to Flock
• Create a Flock Theme

Flock for Web Developers

• Get your content in Flock's mediabar
• Have your blog service recognized by Flock

Documentation

• General Architecture
• Adding your own My World Wigets
• Using the Web Detective
• Accounts Management
• Doxygen: Flock API

Contribute to Flock

• Setting Up Your Development Environment and Building Flock
• Code Style
• Creating a Patch File
• Submit your patch to the Flock team
• Localize Flock in your language

Other resources

• Flock Bugzilla: Bugs
• LXR: Flock Code
• Trac: Flock Commits
• Tinderbox: Hourly builds
• Bonsai: a query interface to the SVN source repository
• Download Flock's source code

Mozilla and Javascript development

Documentation

• Javascript: the high-level language in which Flock is written
• DOM: The Document Object Model, an API to access to elements in HTML or XML files (in particular XUL files)
• XUL: The markup language (XML) used to write Flock's user interface
• XPCOM: The "Cross-Platform Component Object Model", used to connect to low-level components written in C++

Tools, Advice

• Avoid leaks in XPCOM and Javascript: A document explaining the principles of memory management, how it's handled in XPCOM and Javascript, and how to write code that doesn't leak. A must read for everyone writing code related to Flock.
• JavaScript Call Stack Dumper: Details on the "debugger" command, to get a stack trace.
• Learning Venkman: Javascript debugger

• This page was last modified 22:10, 3 June 2008.
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