Why not add a script to the body which will will be run onload?
On Jan 20, 5:14 pm, Andrey Adaikin <aand...@google.com> wrote:
> My use case is simple - to let the background page know that a user has
> clicked on the browserAction button. I would
> use chrome.browserAction.onClicked.addListener() - but for some reason it
> works only when there is no popup specified in the manifest. Thus I have to
> do a workaround - write a script in the popup.html page that would notify
> the background page (either using this way I wrote or another hack like
> exporting a method of the main background page object).
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Rafael Weinstein
> <rafa...@chromium.org>wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Andrey,
>
> > As you observe, the Event dispatch function is not a part of the
> > public API, so it cannot be depending upon (future implementation may
> > change it's behavior).
>
> > Can you explain your use case? Why are you trying to simulate a click
> > to the browserAction?
>
> > As to your second question (why do you have to call the background
> > pages event.dispatch), the reason is that each page has it's own copy
> > of that event object, with it's own set of listeners. The
> > event.dispatch() as receiver of event data from the browser, not a
> > sender. It merely routes the event information to the listeners in
> > that context.
>
> > There is no way to "fire" events from javascript such that their
> > behavior would mimic the behavior as if the event had been generated
> > "organically" from the browser.
>
> > Hope this helps.
>
> > Cheers
> > Rafael
>
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Andrey <aand...@google.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Team,
> > > Can I use the following code to simulate a browser action click:
>
> > > chrome.tabs.getSelected(null, function(tab) {
> > > var backgroundPage = chrome.extension.getBackgroundPage();
> > > backgroundPage.chrome.browserAction.onClicked.dispatch(tab);
> > > });
>
> > > This code does work, but AFAIU, the
> > > chrome.browserAction.onClicked.dispatch() is NOT a documented API, is
> > > it? But still I'll ask, can I rely on it? :)
>
> > > And, as a side note: notice that I have to use the backgroundPage's
> > > chrome object to do the trick when the code is being run inside a
> > > browserAction's popup page. Bother to explain why the direct
> > > chrome.browserAction.onClicked.dispatch() would not work? :)
>
> > > Thanks.
>
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