[Kalastar]

Hi,
I am writing a plugin with Netscape SDK running on IE5 on Mac OS 9.
I started to code and compile my DLLs on CodeWarrior5 and everything was
working fine using IE5. I don t use Carbon yet, just InterfaceLib.
I installed CodeWarrior 6 and I just changed my projects to use the new
libraries of CW6. My plugin does not work anymore.

While loading the plugin, IE5 tells me theses errors messages:
"An error occured while loading the plugin"
and then
"The attemps to load "Accessing URL: file:///Filename" failed "

No Carbon is used.
Using breakpoints, the debugger does not even stop at the main()
function in the file "npmac.cpp" No Initialiasition of my plugin either.

My plugin is declared in the list of plugins of IE5.

Do have any ideas of what the problem could be.

Eric

ps: I still have CW5 installed. Could it be a problem?

[Paul Crawford]

Hi Eric,

Sadly, I (like many other folks) don't always have as much time as I'd like to keep track of this Forum. By now, I guess you've already resolved the problem?

If not, I can perhaps offer some general tips (although I must confess that I have zero hands-on experience with coding Netscape plug-ins)... For instance, if the standard 'main()' or 'NPP_Initialize()' routines didn't even get called, then there might have been a low-level CFM problem with your shared library (plug-in). As you suggested, this could be due to the CW Pro 6 IDE somehow pulling in older CW Pro 5 stuff. All kinds of strange problems can arise from mismatched header-files (Mac OS Universal Interfaces or Netscape API headers) and/or system stub-libraries such as InterfaceLib. On the other hand, the problem could simply be that some crucial linker options were inadvertently mangled when the project was imported into CW Pro 6. You could try comparing the project's preference panels in CW Pro 5 and CW Pro 6 to see if there are any differences.

Let us know how things turned out.

Regards,

--Paul

[Kalastar]

Hi Paul,

I did find what was wrong, I was simply linking to one DLL without having it in my directory. So Netscape did not like it and told me that something was wrong, very helpful error message I should say )
Anyway, thanx for your help.

Regards

Eric