i do not know the tab id...the code gets injected into any tab that has facebook open...
my extension is hosted at https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/oibchndgminbbeopaejobnnajfjgkcnk i'm not very good with javascript yet but i have been using css and html for a while now... i dont want all the tabs to get the script because if any other sites are using the same html ids then it would change the layout of those pages... i have posted my latest code at http://hexid.uni.cc/facebook.zip does anyone know how i can get the content script to read the localstorage of the options page or if i could create a cookie and have the content script read that... On Dec 11, 7:05 pm, Aaron Boodman <a...@google.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:27 PM, hexid <nick.curr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ok...i havent used any background pages...been searching for a way to > > do this for days now...and google hasn't documented their API very > > well yet...which isn't making this any easier... > > > also...would i use the chrome.extension.connect() to transfer the data > > to the background page? > > You don't need to use a background page -- you can do this directly > from the options page. > > Take a look at:http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/messaging.html > > If you know the ID of the tab you want to talk to, send a message from > the extension using chrome.tabs.connect. You can also broadcast to all > tabs, by getting all the tabs using chrome.tabs then iterating through > them and sending them all the updated info. > > HTH, > > - a -- 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=en.
