Thank you both for the tips. I've been able to play a little with it: http://dev.jeremyselier.com/chrome-extensions/gmail-checker-2.crx So of course it's the new notifier from the trunk. I removed canvas as I wasn't able to make it worked. Instead I used the setIcon/ setBadgeText combo which is awesome! I integrated a popup which prints your at best 3 unread mails, the fact that the popup is fully customizable is great. It seems that you planned to limit the popup size, I think it's a good idea, but it would be cool to be able to resize the popup at the size we want (in the limit of the max-size you allow). Or another way to deal with this is to be able to set a transparent background for the body of our popup, with this we can have nice design with border-radius.
Well, it was fun! On 15 oct, 23:20, Matt Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/(justpickthe > > >> >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
