Can someone please show me how to use the chrome.tabs.onActivated.
I would like to refresh the tab that is clicked/activated if the url equals: www.example.com.
Or if this is the wrong method please tell me what to use.
Firstly, be sure to put "tabs" permission in your manifest.json file. Then, use chrome.tabs.onActivated in your background page script. Each time this event will be called you will get activeInfo object containing currently active tab ID. Having this ID you can fetch the tab and see what URL is it set to. When you are certain that this is a tab you are looking for (URL matches) you can reload it.
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I searched on Google and StackOverflow, and I was not able to find a solution to my problem (to my greatest surprise).
I'm looking to display the popup, exactly like when the user click on the icon of my extension, but via javascript.
The idea behind it is simple : On a specific page, I inject a button and add an event listener on it ("click"). When the user click on that button, I'd like to display the tooltip, simple as that :)
... but I can not find anything related to it. Any idea ?
Thank you in advance.
Opening the popup is impossible without user interaction. For good reason too, remember that no one likes popups that open themselves. What you can do is inject your popup onto the site the user is at, through a content script.
https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/content_scripts
As per your description,
On a specific page, I inject a button and add an event listener on it ("click"). When the user click on that button, I'd like to display the tooltip, simple as that :)
I think what you need is just chrome.pageAction, it's similar to browserAction, while represents actions that can be taken on the current page, but aren't applicable to all pages.
I am building a mobile app for iPhone using the mobile controls in the XPages Extension Library.
The first page displays a list of categories (happens to be a list of user names). When a category is selected the second page is displayed listing all documents belonging to the selected user.
The URL to open the second page includes a parameter with the user's name. The second page has a page heading control and on the "label" property I have added the following code:-
if (param.get("User") != null) {
sessionScope.put("UserName", param.get("User"));
}
return sessionScope.UserName;
I'm doing this so that I have access to the user name on subsequent pages, e.g. the third page is displayed when the user opens a document from the list on the second page.
When I test this in Chrome everything is fine. When I test in Safari I can see that the sessionScope variable is set when the second page is opened. However, when I select a document and the third page is opened the sessionScope variable is disappearing. I can't see any code that would explain this and when tested in Chrome the sessionScope variable is still there on page 3. Unsurprisingly I get the same issue when I test on an iPhone.
The problem this gives me is that, when navigating back from a document (p.3) to the list of documents for the selected user (p.2) I don't know which user was selected originally.
Anyone seen this before or have any explanation as to what might be going on?
Thanks for any suggestions.
you might want to refrain from the parameter approach unless you are sanetizing your input first, so instead of the URL write the userName directly into the scope - or even easier - bind the first field with the categories to the sessionScope. Did u try to modify your code to use a different variable name?
As chrome.browserAction.onClicked works only if there is no popup, is there any alternative method to fire a query when browser action icon is clicked?
Let me make myself clear..
I have more than one view i.e, html files in my extension. My default popup in index.html
Whenever I click on the icon I want to fetch some data from server. If I include this function in index.html or index.js, this function gets called every time I go to that page. Can anyone help me?
Thank you in advance.
What I would do is:
Have the behavior take place in the onload handler of the page. Since it sounds like the default popup page, index.html, can be loaded as time when the user is not creating the initial popup, I would create a page that is a dedicated initial popup load page that is not used anywhere else. This page could redirect to index.html or include it as an iframe.
Another option is to have index.html take a query string indicating how it is being used. Your initial popup could be index.html?init=1 and all other inclusions of the page simply use index.html. Then use window.location.search.substring(1) to test if a query string is present and take the appropriate action.
I'm also looking for an solution to this and I'm wondering if it is possible to start the browser action with no popup, detect the click, then set a popup with "setPopup()". If it works it doesn't seem like the nicest approach, I hope someone knows of a better solution.
I'm writing an extension for chrome that shows a results page when a user enters a query from the popup.
I would like subsequent queries to use the existing results page rather than opening new ones.
I used chrome.extension.getViews({'type':'tab'}) to get the currently opened extension pages and to pass the query to a javascript function in the open page.
The issue I'm having is switching to that page without requiring the 'tabs' permission.
This snippet of code works well from the background page.
chrome.tabs.getCurrent(function(tab){
chrome.tabs.update(tab.id, {selected: true});
});
However, tabs.getCurrent requires the 'tabs' permission. Is there a way to do this without the tabs permission?
I could use chrome.tabs.update but I don't know how to get the tab id from the view object returned from chrome.extension.getViews.
I'm fairly certain this can't be done without the tabs permission. You have correctly identified that chrome.tabs.update is the function you need, but without the tabs permission, it can only operate on the currently selected tab by provifing a null tab ID argument. Since you can't supply tab IDs in chrome.tabs.update without permission, switching between tabs is not possible.
/edit: As appsilers mentioned, not really doable.
If you can instead use chrome.tabs.create() to open the required tab, it will also return its tab id upon creation.
Otherwise the only way is to plast a global inside the target context and use chrome.extension.getViews() to identify the target and call a focus-stealing function, like alert(). But I'd advise against, since it's more like a hack and there isn't really a guarantee this functionality will keep stable between builds.
I have the following fields inside a view:
User ID
Teaser
I selected "exclude from display" for the User ID field.
In the Teaser field, I selected the "rewrite the output of this field" option. This way, I can use html to completely control the structure of the view's output. Moreover, I can call the User ID field by using it's token, [uid].
For example, I can do the following in the teaser's rewrite:
Visit Profile
The problem with the above code is that the path is relative. It will only work on the front page of the site.
For example, if this link is clicked in
www.example.com/node/1
then it will visit a non-existent URL of:
node/1/user/[uid]
I have tried the following: http://chopapp.com/#o7osql65
But views fields does not allow PHP codes.
I might be approaching this entirely wrong. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks.
You'll want to rewrite the output of the UID field, and have it be rendered as a link. Even if you exclude it from display initially, it will still be available as a link via its token to other fields. One of the options when selecting to 'output this field as a link' is to make the link absolute.