# [Colony Gateway (NPAPI Plugin)](http://getcolony.com)
NPAPI-based plugin that provides a series of native features like:
* Printing using direct access to the printing infra-structure of the operative system
* Creation of native-based GUI elements
The current implementation supports only x86/x64 architectures and Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
## Building
To build both the CRX (Google Chrome) and the XPI (Mozilla Firefox) files for the plugin
one should use the scripts created for such effect under the [scripts](scripts) directory. The
automated process assumes the Windows build process using the Visual Studio IDE.
### Windows
Use Visual Studio 2008 Express for compilation with no additional dependencies. The build process should
create the plugin files in the output.
### Mac OS X
Download the [Gecko SDK 1.9 32 bit](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Gecko_SDK) from the official
website.
Use the `/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/` directory to test the plugin while the proper extension package file
is not created. Remember to rename the `*.bundle` package into an `*.plugin` based package.
### Linux
Use the `/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/` directory to test the `*.so` based plugin file for development purposes.
[Mozilla Firefox](http://www.mozilla.org) should be the primary browser for the debugging of the NPAPI-based plugin.
### Python
It's also possible to build a Python module that exports the functionality in the NPAPI Plugin for
running the python script as `python setup.py install` under an UNIX-based machine.
## Packaging
### Google Chrome
Create a package file containing references to the complete set of plugin files for the various
platforms as defined in the `src/colony_npapi/descriptors/manifest_u.json` file.
```javascript
"plugins" : [{
"path" : "npcolony.dll",
"public" : true
}, {
"path" : "libnpcolony.so",
"public" : true
}, {
"path" : "npcolony.plugin",
"public" : true
}]
```
Copy the proper files (`npcolony.dll`, `libnpcolony.so` and `npcolony.plugin`) into the proper release directory
and then run the `make_all build` script to create the target files (eg: cbx and xpi).
```bash
make_all build <dir>
```
## Examples
There's an [examples directory](examples) containing HTML samples to test the plugin.
## License
Colony Gateway is currently licensed under the [Apache License, Version 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/).
## Build Automation
[](https://travis-ci.com/github/hivesolutions/colony-npapi)
[](https://github.com/hivesolutions/colony-npapi/actions)
[](https://coveralls.io/r/hivesolutions/colony-npapi?branch=master)
[](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/npcolony)
[](https://www.apache.org/licenses/)
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