FYI, I just looked at this again. The problem was that I was trying to call 
the postMessage() function before the local DOM was ready. Basic.

Eric

On Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 9:29:35 PM UTC-5, eric sherouse wrote:
>
> Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, I also tried 
> this.$.theThing.postMessage(), and it does not work either.
>
> On Thursday, July 16, 2015 at 9:16:07 PM UTC-5, Eric Bidelman wrote:
>>
>> Did you try just this.$.theThing.postMessage()? Since that node is local 
>> to your element's DOM, you shouldn't need the Polymer.dom() wrappers. Those 
>> are mainly for cases where you're manipulating the light DOM of an element 
>> and doing
>> things that could affect distribution.
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 10:28 AM eric sherouse <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am migrating my app from Polymer 0.5 to 1.0. I have an element with an 
>>> embed tag in it (used to communicate with a Native Client module actually).
>>>
>>> <embed id="theThing" src="{{nmf}}" type="application/x-pnacl" 
>>> on-load="loaded" on-message="receive">
>>>
>>> In 0.5, I was able to use postMessage to communicate with this embed 
>>> element like this:
>>>
>>> this.$.theThing.postMessage()
>>>
>>> In 1.0, it appears I can no longer access the postMessage method (it is 
>>> undefined). I have tried multiple element selector variations:
>>>
>>> Polymer.dom(this.$.theThing).postMessage(); //does not work
>>> this.$$("#theThing").postMessage(); //does not work
>>> Polymer.dom(this.root).querySelector("#theThing").postMessage(); //does 
>>> not work
>>>
>>> Is there a new way to access these sorts of methods? If this is 
>>> described in the docs, I have missed it so far. Any thoughts would be 
>>> appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Eric
>>>
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