Thanks, Mohamed. You're right about this being very easy. I had a lot of trepidation at first, but once I got over it and started focusing on what I wanted to do, it was amazing how much I got accomplished in a short time. And for a noob at that! I only have a (hopefully small) content script to write and I'll be able to post my first Chrome extension.
Thank you (and PhistucK) for your suggestions. On Dec 23, 10:10 pm, Mohamed Mansour <m...@chromium.org> wrote: > It isn't a lot of work, whatever you can do with GreaseMonkey, you can do > almost all of it with Chrome. There are many extensions in the gallery that > extend Gmail by simply using Content-Scripts. > > http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/content_scripts.html > <http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/content_scripts.html> > -Mohamed Mansour > > > > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:59 AM, FractalBob <ruom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Seems like a lot of work just to create a button. I can only imagine > > what it would take to implement my Thunderbird add-on in Chrome! > > > I guess the Chrome extensions aren't quite ready for prime time. I'll > > check back in a year or two. > > On Dec 21, 12:39 am, PhistucK <phist...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Maybe try to execute something like that - > > > inject.js - > > > var GMonkey; > > > if (gmonkey) > > > { > > > gmonkey.init("undefined",function (api) { GMonkey = api }); > > > // Find out the ID of the object you > > > // want using GMonkey, reference here - > > > // > >http://code.google.com/p/gmail-greasemonkey/wiki/GmailGreasemonkey10API > > > // element = gmail.getNavPaneElement(); > > > // > > > // Find the actual ID or class name, or whatever > > > // identifier that can help you later track it down > > > // again, using this example - > > > // > > > // elementIdentifier = element.id; > > > // elementIdentifierType = "ID"; > > > // Or > > > // elementIdentifier = element.className; > > > // elementIdentifierType = "className"; > > > // Or however you choose. > > > hiddenSpan = document.createElement("HIDDENSPAN"); > > > hiddenSpan.id = "hidden-span"; > > > hiddenSpan.style.display = "none"; > > > hiddenSpan.innerText = elementIdentifier; > > > hiddenSpan.setAttribute("type",elementIdentifierType); > > > document.body.appendChild(hiddenSpan); > > > > } > > > > Then in the content script JavaScript file - > > > script = document.createElement("script"); > > > script.src = chrome.extensions.getUrl("inject.js"); > > > script.onload = doStuff; > > > document.body.appendChild(script); > > > var requestedElement > > > function doStuff() > > > { > > > element = document.getElementById("hidden-span") > > > if (element.getAttribute("type") == "ID") > > > requestedElement = document.getElementById(element.innerText); > > > else > > > requestedElement = document.getElementsByClassName(element.innerText); > > > > } > > > > Does it work? > > > > ☆PhistucK > > > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 03:32, FractalBob <ruom...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > I want to extend Gmail and that includes creating a button in a > > > > specific position on the page. I know, visually, where I want it to > > > > go, but I'm having trouble translating the UI element to the stuff the > > > > DOM inspector/Developer tool displays. Any guidance would be very much > > > > appreciated. > > > > > Bob > > > > > -- > > > > > 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<chromium-extensions%2Bunsu > > > > bscr...@googlegroups.com><chromium-extensions%2Bunsu > > bscr...@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<chromium-extensions%2Bunsu > > bscr...@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=en.
