Hi again Monsignor,

Reposting the hacky "getting started" instructions. Also turning up the heat to get a proper SDK out ASAP.

Here's the hacky way of getting started.

1. go to service explorer (http://browserplus.yahoo.com/developer/services/)
2. install JSONRequest
3. find it on your disk (on osx it'll be in ~/Library/Application Support/Yahoo!/BrowserPlus/Corelets/JSONRequest/1.0.8)
4. copy the directory out
5. inspect and change the manifest.json and the core implementation.
6. copy into corelets directory to publish (i.e. RSSReader/1.0.0)
7. restart BrowserPlus to force it to rescan corelets directory

Now warnings, the development environment here sucks, our real SDK will address this, but in the meantime this should let you play and explore.

JSONRequest is a good place to start because of the obvious similarities, and you can probably throw out the json parsing library.

Also, some interesting, though outdated, information is available here: http://hackety.org/2008/06/09/dismantlingBrowserPlus.html

lloyd

Dear Lloyd,
I am having a problem. I am fine all the way up to step 7. When I restart browserplus my example, in my case testbpprog instead of RSSReader, disappears. Do I have to put information about the corelet in a log file. restarting BrowserPlus makes my directory go away.

So that's one of the reasons this environment is a bit of a hack.

BrowserPlus will actively delete cruft (or what IT thinks is cruft) from the corelet directory. So your service has a syntax or structural error somewhere, and browserplus core is removing it. If you would like to post the service to code.google.com or sourceforge then I'd love to take a look at it?

In the SDK we'll include a "validator" that you will handling checking for correct syntax and everything and will "publish" to your local corelet directory, which should make this experience better.

very best,
lloyd

It is interesting, it would be cool if browserplus had a testbed area for its development. But, i can respect that google and sourceforge have the edge on that one. Alright, good to hear a validator will be in the SDK. It is sad to me, that i need to be babied that much.

I will comment again when i have posted to sourceforge and such

It is interesting, it would be cool if browserplus had a testbed area for its development. But, i can respect that google and sourceforge have the edge on that one. Alright, good to hear a validator will be in the SDK. It is sad to me, that i need to be babied that much.

I will comment again when i have posted to sourceforge and such

maybe http://github.com ? I'd love an excuse to play with git, and I dig the social element of this site.

just an idea,
lloyd

Alright, I will post it there. If my plans work out my post may come out around the time of the SDK
but, i will post it there Lloyd, see how it goes, and drag others along.

Hello
I am anxious to try out our interface to Amazon S3 using YBPlus.
Can you tell me where is the corelets library under Windows XP no answer like we do not use Windows!!

Monteiro

Hello,
Which version of Ruby does the interpretor use, here we use Ruby 1.8.6 or later. 1.8.6 has the REXML as standard.
Started a quick test, without a SDK and some further documentation it might take longer then expected. However we have a winter student starting and will dump the project on his head.

francisco