Good to see you are trying to build an extension, its a lot of fun! First of all you would need to use a browser action<http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/browserAction.html>with "no popup" and within the background page, you can add an onClicked event to inform you that it has been clicked. TheTab Extension API<http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/>has a function called getSelected<http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tabs.html#method-getSelected> that you can use that to get the currently selected tab. Once you get that tab, there is a bunch of properties<http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/tabs.html#type-Tab>that you can use. One property is "url". Once you get that URL, you can open a new window (using the Tab API) with the customized URL you are creating.
Remember, everything is event driven, you can take a look at a couple of samples stated here to get your started: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/samples.html <http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/samples.html> -Mohamed Mansour On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Johnathan <johnathan.barr...@googlemail.com > wrote: > Hi, I'm building my first Google Chrome extension. I just want to know > if I can and how when I click the button for my extension to run it > gets the URL in the address bar and appends it to another URL that I > specify. I want to make an extension for my URL shortener. > I don't want someone to do it for me, just point me in the right > direction. Also auto copy to clipboard would be great, would this be > down to Chrome or just some plain js? > Thank you :) And sorry if I'm not meant to post this sort of stuff > here. > > -- > 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%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions?hl=en. > > > >--
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