This may be obvious, but note that getViews() will not return the popup if it is not currently visible. It's not just hidden, it's not loaded at all. For that reason, I think it might make more sense to have the popup talk to the background page.
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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
