[crx] unable to access getBackgroundPage within chrome.devtools.panel API ?

[Laurent Perez]

Hi

I'm writing a devtools extension ;
http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/dev/devtools.panels.html
states that an extension panel has access to chrome.extension API.
I have a panel.js file , which is loaded from panel.html, panel.html
being loaded from chrome.devtools.panels.create("Font Picker",
"icon.png",
"panel.html"
);

However, when I do the following in panel.js : var BG =
chrome.extension.getBackgroundPage();, the extension simply does hang,
no error is shown in the console, even following alert() statements
are not shown. It seams the simple fact of trying to access
chrome.extension.getBackgroundPage(); hangs the extension.

Are we supposed to be able to access
chrome.extension.getBackgroundPage(); within a js loaded from a
devtools extension panel ? What is the preferred way for a devtools
extension to access the background page ?

Thanks
laurent


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[Aaron Boodman]

You cannot access the background page from the devtools panels. Sorry
that the error handling works poorly.

You should use extension messaging to communicate between devTools
panels and the background page:

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/messaging.html

- a

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