Komodo ViewAbout

After reading ViewAbout post written by Gary Kwong I was curious to see what Komodo should have shown.

Komodo doesn’t require to write an extension to implement a similar feature, it is sufficient to write a macro

So I’ve written the code that adds a popup menu inside Help menu and amazing it worked immediately

The macro can be triggered at startup but the menu will be added only on first open window because Komodo doesn’t have a “on open new window” macro event but it can be easily simulated adding a listener.

The code shown below is the complete Komodo Javascript macro, nothing else is necessary. (EDIT Thanks to Mook to point me how to remove the hardcoded abouts list)

var abouts = [];
for (var c in Components.classes) {
    var m = c.split(/=/);
    if (m[0] == "@mozilla.org/network/protocol/about;1?what") {
        if (m[1]) {
            abouts.push(m[1]);
        }
    }
}

var menuAbouts = document.createElement("menu");
menuAbouts.setAttribute("label", "All abouts:");

var menuAboutsPopup = document.createElement("menupopup");
menuAbouts.appendChild(menuAboutsPopup);

var helpMenuSeparator = document.getElementById("menu_helpShowKeybindings").nextSibling;
var helpMenu = helpMenuSeparator.parentNode;
helpMenu.insertBefore(menuAbouts, helpMenuSeparator);

for (i in abouts) {
    var menuitem = document.createElement("menuitem");
    menuitem.id = abouts[i];
    menuitem.openAbout = openAbout;
    menuitem.setAttribute("label", abouts[i]);
    menuitem.setAttribute("oncommand", "this.openAbout('" + abouts[i] + "')");
    menuAboutsPopup.appendChild(menuitem);
}

function openAbout(about) {
    var docSvc = Components.classes['@activestate.com/koDocumentService;1']
                    .getService(Components.interfaces.koIDocumentService);
    var doc = docSvc.createDocumentFromURI("about:" + about);
    ko.views.manager.topView.createViewFromDocument(doc, "browser");
}