Upgrade StorageZotero Item History [plugin]
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Thanks for catching that. It should be public now.
I tried to install on Mac with ff 3.6 and zotero 2.1.6. Result: plugin is installed but when I reopen ff, I cannot see the buttons, no trace of the plugin, and the following in error reports:
[JavaScript Error: "Components.classes['@mystery-lab/ZoteroItemHistoryService;1'] is undefined" {file: "chrome://zotero-item-history/content/main.js" line: 27}]
but thanks for a potentially nice plugin!
On both the startup problems with FF5, and the problems with the 2.1 branch XPI, all combinations run without any problem here (on Linux, Ubuntu 10.x only, but against the multilingual branch, the trunk and 2.1.6). I'm not sure I can help.
The 0.4 version will at least log the appInfo string (used to identify the FF version), which is relevant to the test that seems to be failing in at least some of your trials (judging from the console log you've posted above). If that doesn't lead to an answer, people familiar with Mac and Windows platforms should probably take a look. I had a struggle to get the moving parts of Zotero and the plugin to work together smoothly, but the finished code is not very complex, and there isn't much of it.
If I run 0.4 with FF5 I get an error on startup. Here the console output – maybe useful for knowledgeable Mac-folk:
I should be able to push all of that code a little further down the boot chain, which might work a little better. Should happen this evening or sometime tomorrow.
tried again, now both with zotero 2.1.6 and 2.1.7 and your latest version. Still does not work. again mac OSX 10.5.5 and ff 3.6. But this time no errors that relate to the plugin
best
Michael
certainly I do not expect you to provide a perfect plugin. But I do not have the technical ability to do the debugging, and I just wanted to provide feedback my attempt to make it work.
-The buttons could use tool tips
-On OS X, the style of the buttons is different from the style of the other Zotero buttons.
-When I use a translator to create a new item, I expected it to apear in the history list, but it does not.
In all, I think that I will find this quite useful in the long run.
I didn't find "help" or guidelines. I searched them in the firefox add-ons manager. But guidelines are in the "about" tab: strange.
The "but if you're reading this, you already know that" message was not true for me: I wouldn't have thought to right-click on the house (no zotero button have right-click options).
In the house right-click menu, what's the role of the "anchor to this collection" option?
The anchor mode locks onto the current history list. Ordinarily, clicking on a collection in the left panel will open the history list for that collection. The anchor mode allows you to trawil around various collections in the library, and capture your browsing in the history list for a single collection.
/edit: ah, About text is found by right-clicking the house+arrow icon. Still, tooltips 'd nice.
Any particular reason you use up and down buttons rather than left and right? (Perhaps to avoid confusion with the neighbouring button?) Up and down is rather idiosyncratic for this; there's a very strong left/right metaphor for back/forward in UIs across different operating systems, and one would have to have very good reasons to deviate from that.
How about the Silk icons"resultset_previous.png" and "resultset_next.png"? Maybe in green instead of light blue for visual harmony? Or perhaps the more low-key, grey "bullet_arrow_down.png" and "bullet_arrow_up.png", turned 90 degrees. (I could turn them for you.)