PhistucK is right on everything except one detail: You can get the window object of the current tab by using chrome.tabs.executeScript(). See:
http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tabs.html#method-executeScript But again, note that toolstrips are dead. Long live browser actions. - a On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:50 AM, PhistucK <phist...@gmail.com> wrote: > You cannot get to the window object, especially not with toolstrips. Every > script (content scripts and page scripts) lives in its own world, so they > cannot touch the window\global objects (as far as I understand), but only > manipulate the DOM. > Toolstrips are deprecated, you are advised to use Browser Actions instead > (documentation). > Note that the Browser Actions API is not so polished yet. The link I > specified to the documentation is up to date with the trunk version (not the > Dev\Beta\Stable version). > The most official documentation is in here, but it does not include Browser > Actions yet, since the Dev version has been postponed for a bit. Once the > new version is out, the documentation will be updated, as well. > ☆PhistucK > > > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 08:50, Phil <constanti...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hey - >> What's the best way to get a reference to the current tab's DOM Window >> object (not the Chrome Window object) from the Toolstrip. >> >> I'm trying to write a toolstrip extension that modifies and gets the >> properties ofthe current Window's DOM but the "window" variable seems >> to be set to the toolstrip itself and not the current web page. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to chromium-extensions@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to chromium-extensions+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
