Oh, and for future reference: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/extension.html#method-getViews
- a On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: > We don't have a getPopup() function. It would be a good thing to add, > but you can workaround by using the getViews() method which gets > everything. > > var views = chrome.extension.getViews(); > for (var i = 0; i < views.length; i++) { > if (views[i].location.pathname == "/popup.html") > // do something with views[i] > } > > - a > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Jeremy Selier <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Oh I wasn't aware of that. But is the reverse possible, I mean, can >> the popup talk to the background page? >> Maybe something like chrome.extension.getPopup().printUnreadEmails(); >> >> On Oct 15, 10:49 pm, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The popups can talk to the background page using APIs like >>> chrome.extension.getBackgroundPage(). Is that what you mean? >>> >>> - a >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Jeremy Selier <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > I'va tested it and I find it pretty cool! >>> >>> > Question: >>> > Is it planned to have interaction between background page and popup? >>> > I see an interesting use case for the GMail notifier, for example, the >>> > popup could display the title of unread emails. >>> >>> > Anyway, this is going to be cool! >>> >>> > -- >>> > Jeremy >>> >>> > On 15 oct, 20:48, Aaron Boodman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> > Am I able to make the extension forward compatible, by adding the new >>> >> > properties to the manifest.json as well? >>> >>> >> Yes, the manifest parser tolerates extra properties. If you want to test >>> >> it, >>> >> you can download a trunk Chromium: >>> >>> >>http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/(justpick the >>> >> one with the biggest number) >>> >>> >> The programmatic API is also slightly different, but you can just use >>> >> object >>> >> detection to try both of them. >>> >>> >> - a >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
