Great, thanks for the reference - that will come in handy.
On Oct 30, 12:32 am, Antony Sargent <[email protected]> wrote:
> No need to declare it.
>
> You may also be interested in the chrome.extension.getURL method to get a
> url for use in chrome.tabs.create or window.open.
>
> http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/extension.html#method-getURL
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Wesley Johnson
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi Nick,
>
> > Thanks for the quick reply! That should work for what I need and I'm
> > pleased to here it is possible using an additional page. Does the
> > package dictate that I declare this extra page in the manifest or can
> > it just reside in the directory like images, etc? Thanks again.
>
> > -Wesley
>
> > On Oct 29, 11:40 pm, Nick Baum <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi Wesley,
>
> > > It's not possible to load the existing instance of the background page in
> > a
> > > tab, so the solution is to create a new html page, as you suggested. Note
> > > that this will be able to communicate directly with the background page,
> > and
> > > use the extension APIs, so hopefully it won't be too much of a hassle.
>
> > > -Nick
>
> > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Wesley Johnson
> > > <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > > > I'm authoring an extension that requires centralized UI for various
> > > > aspects and features. My initial thought is to put it into the
> > > > background page. It's easy enough to call up a tab and set the URL to
> > > > the background html page of your extension. The issue in doing that is
> > > > that it appears to create a new instance of a background page and
> > > > loads that....
>
> > > > Can I view the actual background page the extension is linked to/
> > > > communicating with? I know you can use chrome.extension.getViews() to
> > > > loop through views for your extension and find the background view,
> > > > but how to I send that "view" to a tab, so I can see it? If this is
> > > > not possible, which I could understand it might not be since it is, by
> > > > design, a BACKGROUND page - then what are my alternatives for
> > > > rendering additional UI?
>
> > > > Should I just create a new html page and package it up with my
> > > > extension and then just load that into a new tab? It would require
> > > > more work getting my background page to communicate with yet ANOTHER
> > > > view, but it could work.
>
> > > > Thoughts?
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