[gwt-contrib] Re: Upgraded from GWT 2.6 to 2.8 - now Chrome Extension API doesn't work...

2017-05-01 Thread Colin Alworth
What had been the care previously? Were you calling the chrome methods in some way other than through JSNI? Java methods can't call raw JavaScript without JSNI (or JsInterop, which didn't exist in GWT 2.6). Otherwise I'm not sure what you changed it _from_ to get to the psuedocode in your

[gwt-contrib] Re: Upgraded from GWT 2.6 to 2.8 - now Chrome Extension API doesn't work...

2017-05-01 Thread TimOnGmail
So it appears that this is caused by JSNI methods somehow being morphed when the GWT app is compiled. I don't know how, but I do know that calls to Chrome proprietary APIs aren't working correctly. I modified my code to do the following: Java method calls JSNI method JSNI method calls raw