Sandcat Browser - Hello World

How to make a simple hello world extension

Create a folder somewhere on your system to contain your extension's files.
Inside the folder, create Manifest.json with the following content:


{
 "name": "Hello World Extension",
 "version": "1.0",
 "author": "Me",
 "script": {
  "filename": "hello.lua",
  "init": "Hello:register()",
 }
}

Create a Lua script called hello.lua with the following content:


Hello = {}

function Hello:showmsg()
 app.showmessage('Hello World!')
end

function Hello:register() -- will be called during startup
 local html = [[
 <div
 class="button"
 onclick="Hello:showmsg()"
 style="foreground-image: url(Hello.scx#world.png);"
 />
 ]]
 browser.navbar:inserthtml(1,'#toolbar',html)
end

Save this icon as world.png in the same folder:
Zip the files and change the extension to .scx.
- The zip file can be called Hello.scx.
Copy the Hello.scx file to the Packs\Extensions folder, which is located in the root of the Sandcat Browser folder.
Launch the Sandcat Browser and look at the navigation bar, you should see the globe icon:

Done! Now try clicking on it.

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