I am looking for a way to integrate my app in the Sharepicker. I already found the regarding example here and the Manifest documentation.
My Problem is, that I do not want to receive Pictures, but links or other things. Is there any place (that I did not find) where the possible extensions are listed?
No. You can only act as a share provider for pictures. For everything else, you can give developers an URI scheme that they can associate with your app, therefore being able to call it later on if they decide to share something with you. This, however, will not be a system-wide sharing extension.
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I have some pages which I want to restrict access to specific users, i.e, I want user A and user B only to view this page. How can this be done? Do I need additional extensions or it can be done through LocalSettings.php for example?
You could try this extension: Extension:AccessControl. I've not deployed it to my wiki sites, but a quick read of the pages suggests it might be what you're looking for.
Note though that as Tgr covered in the comments above, Mediawiki is not intended to operate like this, so the extension could be fundamentally flawed in its implementation. Practise due diligence if you try to deploy any 3rd party extensions. Alternatively, look into alternative CMSs that handle access control as a core feature.
The question is pretty clear I think, but I will elaborate on why I'm asking it.
I created a little blog engine based on OneNote. Basically, the blog configuration asks for an access to OneNote. Then the user chooses a section under which the blog posts are stored.
There is a cron script that will use all these informations to automatically get new pages, fetch the medias and cache every, and finally display the posts.
I chose OneNote because I own three Windows 8 computers and a Windows Phone, so OneNote was an easy choice, as I didn't want to get an other application to manage my blog.
There is still a lot to do (as always with softwares...), but I want to make this more or less an open source project, so that other people can install it on their websites and link it directely to OneNote.
The only "big" obstacle for this now is that authentication in the OneNote API needs to register the application on the Live Connect, and specify a redirect domain. So every user wishing to use this blog engine on their server will have to register their own application... That will look complicated just for a blog, especially if you're not tech-savvy.
Is there a way to "skip" or work around this requirement, even if it requires the user to make the section public (as it is for a blog, this doesn't seem too much to ask) ?
Thank you in advance,
Cheers
Sounds like an awesome project! When you get it released be sure to let us know at #OneNoteDev.
Unfortunately, at this time there's no way to circumvent the requirement for Live Connect OAuth configuration. You could offer a hosted variant so only you need to worry about the LiveID configuration.
I would like to publish an app in google play, but I want to restrict the downloading under password or something like that. Is it possible? Is there any alternative?
Many thanks in advance,
Short Answer:
No.
Slightly Long Answer:
Applications available on Google Play cannot be downloaded only after a user authenticates. Any such feature will have to be implemented withing your application. At best, if this feature is needed for monetary reasons, publish a paid application.
Since the OP isn't descriptive beyond what you are looking for as a feature, it will be difficult to suggest an option / alternative that might suit your requirement. However, if you have a server setup that can communicate with the app, you can implement a feature which requires users, upon installation and running your app, to Sign Up for a new account and/or Login if already registered.
Again, I will circle back to the original point. Any such feature will have to implemented within the application itself. Google Play does not have such a feature.
I am learning the html course from the available tutorials on the internet. And with that knowledge I have developed some html files and I believe there is more to go. These files consist of our old school friends and their present condition and what they're doing. I have created a bunch of html files. Like I have created a website for now named as www.mypage.com
Arjun
So in the href I'm just giving the path but those files are in my desktop pc itself. How do I put them on internet and share with my friends who are living somewhere out of this town. I want to reunite all of my school friends using these files. But where do I upload them and make it like a webiste to my friends? Is there any free way to do that? Or any possible way to reach it.
And I'm saying sorry if the question is not for the tag I mentioned. Please let me know and I remove the tag. I don't know what is the link to wikiposts to share my views. If you know then let me see the link. Thank you.
Find a web hosting service (Google knows lots)
Sign up
Follow their instructions
Arjun
And use relative uris
I use http://webhosting.uk.com ... for about £32 a year you get asp.net hosting and access to sql server.
then you simply ftp up to your website something like this (using windows explorer) ....
ftp://mysite.com <-- not a real link
... that would then open up the remote server as if it was a local folder so you could drag and drop your files straight over.
there's an online chat link on the top right of the homepage, the support staff will walk you through getting setup.
don't forget though ... the cost of the domain name that's the bit that turns your server ip address in to stuff like google.co.uk ... I highly recommend them.
I shall just expand on Quentin's answer, because it is clear that you are new.
What you need is a web hosting service. This is a service which hosts your html pages, meaning stores them in their own computers, and also displays them to the world as webpages. Web hosting services are usually paid, but there are some excellent free services if your content is not too big. A simple and free service that I would recommend is Google Sites. You could also try Google App Engine, where you have more freedom and control over your content, but for the same reason it is a little more advanced. But since you are learning html, I believe it is a wise idea to learn more about these services and related concepts.
When you upload your files, the html links need to be changed. They can no longer point to files in your hard drive. When you upload these files, there will be a directory structure in it. All you need to do is place hyperlinks with relative addresses.
And about what your website will be called, www.whatever.com, that is quite another business. For that, you need to register your own domain name, for which you must pay. If you don't want to, then your website will be labelled something under the hosting service domain name. This forum is not adequate to go into a more elaborate explanation of all this, but I think I have mentioned all the key terms, so do some research!
I want to know if i write a Google Chrome extension, will anyone be able to use my code?
It looks like people will be able to see your code. If they can see your code, they can potentially use it.
Windows: C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions
Linux and Mac:
~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/ or
~/.config/google-chrome/Default/Extensions/
The source code is available for inspection/debugging/experimenting & whatever people might want to do. You may try to use a JavaScript obfuscator.
Since Chrome Extensions are written in JavaScript, and everyone can open the Inspector and see the resources for every extension then, yes, everyone can see the source of your extension.
This doesn't mean they'll be able to use it.
If you obfuscate the code or use similar techniques to make the code less readable then you can avoid that others look into how your extension works. But as said, they can still use the Inspector to analyze the extension.
If you must hide the secret algorithm in your extension, then you could use a server back-end to handle the secret stuff, completely avoiding anyone can look at your code.
Although the question has been posted long time ago, and received some answers (none accepted), I am adding my answer to complete previous answers.
Open-source, referring to software, refers to a «source code made available with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.» (source: Wikipedia)
Unless explicitly stated, software is copyrighted by the author. Even if you have access to sources, without an explicit permission, you can't read it. It's as if you find opened the door of a house; you have the ability to look into it and even walk in. But you don't have any rights to do it, and doing it is likely to put you in trouble.
Everybody can view source code of your extension because it's written in javascript. Nobody has the right to reuse, change and/or distribute your code without your explicit permission.
Moral of the story: never put any sensitive data in your extensions, because it's extremely insecure.
About Open Source, I suggest to read also the Open Source Definition by OSI
Even though Chrome extensions' source code are accessible by the public, it doesn't mean all Chrome extensions are open source. Actually, you don't have the right to copy/reuse/modify their source code either partially or completely, without their authors' permission, except when he/she has announced that it's open source.
Every Chrome Extension gives the user the following rights by default:
5.2 You grant to the user a non-exclusive, worldwide, and perpetual license to perform, display, and use the Products and any content
contained in, accessed by, or transmitted through the Products in
connection with Google Chrome. If you choose, you may include a
separate end user license agreement (EULA) in your Product that will
govern the user’s rights to the Products in lieu of the previous
sentence.
Read the whole agreement here: http://developer.chrome.com/webstore/terms
That doesn't mean that the user has the right to alter and/or distribute your code, but as others have pointed out, they will be able to see your JavaScript if they want to.
I am not sure whether they are open-source or not, but you can easily see the code of any chrome extension.
It is also up to the developers how their code are structured so that whether other can use it by just copy paste or by analyzing the script code.
However, you can also use the Console to analyze the javascript code and use it.
Also, there is a easy and simple in tool in Google Chrome store to view any chrome extension code.
You can download it here (CRX Viewer)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-extension-source-v/jifpbeccnghkjeaalbbjmodiffmgedin
Steps to see code using CRX Viewer :
1) Now after installing the Extension, open it and paste the link of the other extension(which you want to see the code).
ScreenShot of the step
2) Now click "Open in this Viewer" and Here we go ....
Generated source code of extension
3) Now you can easily download the code,or view one by one.
Yes they will, it's mandatory open source !