Songbird Developer Tools

A collection of essential utilities for feathers designers and extension developers.

Description

Features:

The Feathers Wizard, used to set up feathers development projects
The Extension Wizard, which creates a HelloWorld extension and UI sample code
Options to disable XUL caching and refresh the UI
More debug output
The XUL Periodic Table, so you can test all the standard XUL widgets
Easy access to the Profile Manager
A great big bug report button
Javascript debugger and test environment

More tools coming soon. Patches and enhancement ideas are welcomed. source code:

http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/browser/extensions/developertools

Thanks to Antoine Turmel (Improvements and maintenance), Mark Finkle (XUL Explorer), Ted Mielczarek (Extension Developer's Extension), Jesse Ruderman (JS Environment), and Ondrej Donek (XPCOM Viewer)

Change Log:
11/17/08 - Cleanup and 1.0 updates by Antoine Turmel (Bug 13215)
08/15/08 - Fixed XPCOM viewer preferences, and applied an extension toolbar
           fix from Antoine Turmel.
08/07/08 - Updated for 0.7. Added XUL edit, XPCOM viewer, and some bug fixes.
           (thanks Antoine Turmel)
03/13/08 - Updated for 0.5.  Added Media Page sample code and Lone's 
           overlay warning messages.
02/07/08 - Fixed Bug 6922 - Extension Wizard Toolbar broken - Thanks PVH!
12/21/07 - Added the Extension Wizard
12/12/07 - Fixed Bug 6263 (paths too long for windows to handle)
12/10/07 - Venkman, bug fixes, and an improved periodic table 
           (thanks Lone & Stevo!)
11/09/07 - Fixed nsILocalFile.create exception (Bug 5714)
11/05/07 - Fixed Feathers Wizard exception on Linux, added the JS Environment
10/29/07 - Added miniplayer support & fixed image reloading.

Release Notes

Bump for 1.3.0a compatibility

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Comments (25)

about 1 year ago
staff komi

Nice!
about 1 year ago
mig

Hooray!
about 1 year ago
jkoshi

See how to use this add-on to make your own feathers by watching this slideshow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11878025@N03/sets/72157602511257015/
about 1 year ago
Windsurfer

Of course, I love this extension. I couldn't have created my feathers without it. One remaining bug: I had to restart songbird to get the label colours working for .servicepane-toolbar-newitem-button>.clickhold-button . Sorry is this is the wrong place to discuss bugs...
about 1 year ago
author Matt

Interesting. Just for the clickhold button? For everything else, refresh worked fine?
about 1 year ago
renatose

does it works on 0.5pre?
about 1 year ago
ryan.rogers7

I am getting an error.
Error: profManItem is null
Source File: chrome://sbdevtools/content/main.js
Line: 48
latest install version, just want to know where i need to start posting and looking for bug fixes.
about 1 year ago
author Matt

Hmm, thanks Ryan. I’ll look into it this week.
You can post bugs to the Add-Ons component at http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com. I usually put [devtools] in the summary line.
about 1 year ago
Stickman Productions

I’ve installed Songbird Developer Tools, about 30 times, every time it installs it says to restart songbird, so I do as instructed, but none of the tools are there when it restarts and it doesn’t show up in my add-ons list.
about 1 year ago
JohnM

I would like to request you add the Javascript Shell from the Extension Developers extension. Its useful for testing code before adding it into an extension. I like the Javascript Shell better than the Javascript Development Environment, but that would be fine as long as I could test out chrome code with it.
11 months ago
Tael_

Needs to be updated for 0.7rc1
9 months ago
Schwadegan

I'd like to see a hotkey for refreshing UI instead of go through Tools menu and click it each time. Although, very handy feathering tool! Thanks.
7 months ago
Lukas_Skywalker

Wow, nice tool. I like the shortcut for "Refresh UI"! Nice thing.
3 months ago
mferrante3

When will this be updated for 1.1.1?
3 months ago
Chase

You rock Matt, thanks for the update, and thanks for the tool!
3 months ago
atreiu

Thanks for the update! :)
3 months ago
Saebekassebil

Found a bug: http://bugzilla.songbirdnest.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15808
But It's the best addon I've ever seen, thanks so much! :)
about 1 month ago
Horazont

Cannot install this extension. Songbird reports it as okay, but after the restart it is not installed.

Other extensions like FocusTrack work though...
about 1 month ago
LIB53

I know this sounds like a stupid request, but can you make the default version number in the wizard 0.1 or something? There's brand new feathers that aren't 1.0 quality that are set to 1.0.0.0 because they used defaults from this wizard. Then people rate it poorly because of that, and then developer gets discouraged. I thought i would just point it out, but ignore me if i'm asking silly questions.
about 1 month ago
Horazont

Got it working now... Hacked around with deleting of extensions.* files in profile folder, filling the extension folder with the contents of the xpi and various restarts... Don't know what brought it to work now.

But finally: Big thanks, very nice addon, helped me alot. Especially the XUL Periodic Table since I have had no experience with XUL for now :)

greetings
about 1 month ago
klint

Hello
I'm looking for a new feature of this extension, that could help me a lot in tracking extensions incompatibilities.

This feature would SAVE a configuration of one's extensions (meaning: list of activated / deactivated installed extensions) and also LOAD this configuration (by activating/deactivating installed extension based on the previously save list).

Using that I could easily deactivated one by one all apps, check the conflict, and then activate them all in one step.

Thanks

Olivier
27 days ago
Saebekassebil

Please bump the max-version
16 days ago
seba_kerckhof

In Songbird 1.2b3 I get:
I choose 'restart', Songbird exports my library changes to iTunes, I click 'cancel'. When Songbird restarts I get a crash

The crash report:
http://crashreports.songbirdnest.com/report/index/d5b36c58-5a63-11de-9e50-0015173b1359?p=1
11 days ago
Schwadegan

There is an error when restarting Songbird after using the Wizard to create either an extension or a feather. I recon this is due to the fact that it creates extensions with the maxversion set to a lower version than the Dev tools, causing Songbird versions higher than 1.2.0a to reject the new add-ons. Using the Test mode still works though.

Thank you for a add-on I couldn't possible live without.