I wasn't able to make the new Gmail checker sample under trunk work either.
All I'd get is a blank toolbar button with a 'Gmail' title. Clicking on it
would open Gmail in a new tab.
Jeremy, would you mind sharing your code for the checker you wrote?

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Jeremy Selier <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> 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
> >
>

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