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 <jerem.sel...@gmail.com> 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 <a...@chromium.org> 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 <jerem.sel...@gmail.com>
>> 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 <a...@chromium.org> wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Dan <d...@dancryer.com> 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/(justpick the
>> >> 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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