Thanks Antony. I think that clears up my confusion. So for now I will use a toolstrip so the users can get to the preferences, knowing that in the future I should be able to remove that in lieu of a more unified approach for extension settings in Chrome.
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Antony Sargent <[email protected]>wrote: > The only tricky thing about not having a toolstrip would be figuring out > how the user gets to this preferences page. I think we will eventually add > something like the concept of a preferences page that can be registered in > the manifest, with the chrome://extensions page providing a link to it for > extensions that have one. > > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Jack David >> Baucum<[email protected]> wrote: >> > So the only way to do preferences is by having a toolstrip? >> >> No, preferences have nothing to do with toolstrips. >> >> I just suggested in my previous mail that you can use a regular tab >> content area or popup window to display the preferences UI. As for >> actually reading the preferences when necessary, you could use a >> background page. >> >> See these two URLs for more information about these two concepts: >> >> >> http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/common/extensions/docs/getstarted.html >> >> http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/common/extensions/docs/background_pages.html >> >> - a >> >> >> > > > > -- Jack David Baucum http://maxolasersquad.com http://www.myspace.com/mlsquad --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
