Could you post the code snippets for how you're setting up the channel on each end?
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Colin Bleckner <co...@xmarks.com> wrote: > > I'm having some issues with communication between content scripts and my > extension. I can't tell if this is because I'm doing something wrong, > if there's a bug, or if there's just a better way to do things. All of > the examples I've seen have been one way communication, but I'm trying > to get a response back from my request. Right now I'm doing that by > establishing a connection from the content script using > chrome.extension.connect. When the background page gets a message from > the content script, it does a little bit of work and then creates a new > connection using chrome.tabs.connect (with a different channel name). > It then attempts to send a response back in this new channel. > > The content script has a listener for the response channel, but it > doesn't seem to get called. Is this the correct way to be doing this or > is there a better way to send messages back and forth? While debugging > everything works correctly occasionally (if I hit break points and wait > at certain times), which makes me think there might be some sort of race > condition. But I've tried a bunch of things to ensure that both > channels up set up correctly and nothing I do creates a stable > connection between the two. > > Any ideas? > Colin > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ > 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<chromium-extensions%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en > -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~--- > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-extensions" group. To post to this group, send email to chromium-extensi...@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=.