Thanks for the quick reply. I'll take a look at it and try 1.5a21 too. -- Rado
On Aug 24, 7:09 pm, johnjbarton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 24, 8:57 am, ldrm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I made a Firefox add-on (actually add-on to Firebug) for my company > > that relies on NetMonitor events (working fine with FB 1.3) but now I > > need to support FB 1.4 too. > > > As far as I could see, NetMonitor events are fired only if Firebug was > > activated for the Firefox instance. This breaks functionality of my > > add-on as I need to listen for network traffic to specific sites > > without bothering user to open Firebug first. > > There must be something else going on here. In 1.4 the user interface > for activation changed and some of the details, but broadly speaking > both 1.3 and 1.4 required the user to allow the site to be debugged > before the net panel analyzes traffic. > > Specifically the user must signal that a site is to be debugged by > FIrebug. The signal is different in 1.4, you open Firebug on the URL. > After that action Firebug will be active for the site until the user > pushed "Off", explicitly declining Firebug for the site. > > > > > So, I have several questions... > > > 1. How can I check if Net module (or NetMonitor) is active for a site? > > In 1.4 sites are active/inactive, panels are enabled/disabled. So if > the net panel is enabled (Firebug.NetMonitor.isAlwaysEnabled() == > true) and if the site is active then the net panel will be active. > > You can listen for onPanelEnable and onPanelDisable for the net panel > name. > > > > > 2. How can I activate Net module from my add-on? > > You should not do this. The user should control the enable/disable for > the Net panel and the active/inactive state for a site. As an > extension you should be listening for events from Firebug that signal > an new context is being created (initContext), and taking action for > your feature based on these events. > > > > > 3. Is it possible to check and activate Net module for site listening > > "http-on-examine-response" event, without loosing request on which it > > was activated. > > ? It sounds like you are a victim of the page annotation bug. > Otherwise what you ask does not make sense. Once activated a site > will have a context and all requests will be stored. If page > annotation fails, then the site activation is lost and the requests > also fail to appear. To check this you can run 1.5a21 and see if this > problem goes away. > > > > > Thank you for any help you can give. > > > Regards, > > Rado > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" 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/firebug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
