I got the basic object pane working, so that it displays all the metadata.

I also started implementing some of the localization. There is a lot to do still, and I am still learning a lot of the Firefox extension technologies (XUL, adv. Javascript, etc.) but things are going great.

chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/sidebar.js

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+var ScholarLocalizedStrings;
+
 var treeView = {
 	treebox: null,
 	dataObjects: null,
@@ -22,11 +24,6 @@ var treeView = {
     setTree: function(treebox){ 
     	this.treebox = treebox;
     	this.dataObjects = Scholar_Objects.getAll();
-    	
-        //Dan S: Check out the debug output created by this
-		for(var i = 0; i < this.dataObjects.length; i++)
-			Scholar.debug(Scholar.varDump(this.dataObjects[i]),5);
-
     },
     isContainer: function(row){ return false; },
     isSeparator: function(row){ return false; },
@@ -35,10 +32,71 @@ var treeView = {
     getImageSrc: function(row,col){ return null; },
     getRowProperties: function(row,props){},
     getCellProperties: function(row,col,props){},
-    getColumnProperties: function(colid,col,props){}
+    getColumnProperties: function(colid,col,props){},
+    selectionChanged: function(){
+		if(this.selection.count == 0)
+		{
+			setObjectPaneVisibility(false);
+			document.getElementById('status-text').value = "(No selection)";
+		}
+		else if(this.selection.count == 1)
+		{
+			document.getElementById('status-text').value = "Selected: " + this.selection.currentIndex;
+			setObjectPaneVisibility(true);
+			populateObjectPane(this.dataObjects[this.selection.currentIndex]);
+		}
+		else
+		{
+			setObjectPaneVisibility(false);
+			document.getElementById('status-text').value = "(Multiple selection)";
+		}
+	}
 };
 
+function setObjectPaneVisibility(vis)
+{
+	document.getElementById('scholar-sidebar-object-pane').hidden = !vis;
+	document.getElementById('status-text').hidden = vis;
+}
+
+function populateObjectPane(objectRow)
+{
+	var dynamicBox = document.getElementById('scholar-sidebar-object-pane-dynamic-fields');
+	while(dynamicBox.hasChildNodes())
+		dynamicBox.removeChild(dynamicBox.firstChild);
+	
+	var fields = Scholar_ObjectFields.getObjectTypeFields(objectRow.getField("objectTypeID"));
+	var fieldNames = new Array("title","dateAdded","dateModified","source","rights");
+	for(var i = 0; i<fields.length; i++)
+		fieldNames.push(Scholar_ObjectFields.getName(fields[i]));
+	
+	for(var i = 0; i<fieldNames.length; i++)
+	{
+		if(objectRow.getField(fieldNames[i]) != "")
+		{
+			var label = document.createElement("label");
+			label.setAttribute("value",ScholarLocalizedStrings.getString("objectFields."+fieldNames[i])+":");
+			
+			var valueElement = document.createElement("description");
+			valueElement.appendChild(document.createTextNode(objectRow.getField(fieldNames[i])));
+			
+			var row = document.createElement("row");
+			row.appendChild(label)
+			row.appendChild(valueElement)
+			
+			dynamicBox.appendChild(row);
+		}
+	}
+	
+}
+
+function selectionChanged()
+{
+	treeView.selectionChanged();
+}
+
 function setView()
 {
+	ScholarLocalizedStrings = document.getElementById('scholar-strings');
     document.getElementById('scholar-sidebar-items').view=treeView;
 }

chrome/chromeFiles/content/scholar/sidebar.xul

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/" type"text/css"?>
 <?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://browser/skin/browser.css" type="text/css"?>
+<?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://scholar/skin/scholar.css" type="text/css"?>
+<!DOCTYPE window SYSTEM "chrome://scholar/locale/scholar.dtd">
 
 <page id="scholar-sidebar" title="Scholar"
 		onload="setView()"
@@ -10,10 +12,12 @@
 	<script src="scholar.js"/>
 	<script src="db.js"/>
 	<script src="data_access.js"/>
+	<stringbundle id="scholar-strings" src="chrome://scholar/locale/scholar.properties"/>
   
     <tree
         id="scholar-sidebar-items"
         seltype="multiple"
+        onselect="selectionChanged()"
         flex="1"
         enableColumnDrag="true"
         datasources="rdf:null"
@@ -23,25 +27,31 @@
         <treecols>
             <treecol
                 id="title_column"
-                label="Title"
+                label="&sidebar.items.title_column;"
                 flex="1"/>
             <splitter class="tree-splitter"/>
             <treecol
                 id="creator_column"
-                label="Creator"
+                label="&sidebar.items.creator_column;"
                 flex="1"/>
         </treecols>
         <treechildren/>
     </tree>
-    <splitter collapse="before" resizeafter="grow"/>
+   	<label id="status-text" value="(No selection)"/>
-    
+	<grid id="scholar-sidebar-object-pane" hidden="true">
-    <vbox>
+	  <columns>
-    	<label control="test1" value="Test1:"/>
+		<column/>
+		<column flex="1"/>
+	  </columns>
+	
+	  <rows id="scholar-sidebar-object-pane-dynamic-fields">
+	  </rows>
+	</grid>
+    	<!--
 		<textbox id="test1"/>
     	<label control="test2" value="Test2:"/>
 		<textbox id="test2"/>
     	<label control="test3" value="Test3:"/>
 		<textbox id="test3"/>
-	</vbox>
+		-->
-
 </page>

chrome/chromeFiles/locale/en-US/scholar/scholar.dtd

@@ -1 +1,4 @@
 <!ENTITY statusbarpanel.helloworld "Hello, World">
+
+<!ENTITY sidebar.items.title_column "Title">
+<!ENTITY sidebar.items.creator_column "Creator">

chrome/chromeFiles/locale/en-US/scholar/scholar.properties

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+objectFields.title        = Title
+objectFields.dateAdded    = Date Added
+objectFields.dateModified = Modified
+objectFields.source       = Source
+objectFields.rights       = Rights
+
+objectFields.series       = Series
+objectFields.volume       = Volume
+objectFields.number       = Number
+objectFields.edition      = Edition
+objectFields.place        = Place
+objectFields.publisher    = Publisher
+objectFields.year         = Year
+objectFields.pages        = Pages
+objectFields.ISBN         = ISBN
+objectFields.publication  = Publication
+objectFields.ISSN         = ISSN

chrome/chromeFiles/skin/default/scholar/scholar.css

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#scholar-sidebar-object-pane-dynamic-fields label {
+	font-weight: bold;
+}