How to make an extension popup persist when focus moved away?

[CqN]

When I open an popup with

"browser_action": {
"defult_poput":"x.html"
}

how do I keep the popup window remain when cursor focus is moved away?

CqN

[Scott Fujan]

You can't. But you can open a window.

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[CqN]

Perhaps, I should have asked my question differently :) The google
voice extenson (by Google) has a 'Popout extension' button at the
bottom. Hitting it the popout becomes a persistent popup as panel
attached to the bottom bar. What is the api used for this?

CqN

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[Arne Roomann-Kurrik]

It looks like Google Voice is just calling

window.open(chrome.extension.getURL("popup.html"),"gc-popout-window","width=348,height=654")

Chrome OS is responsible for creating the panel from this code.  In desktop versions of Chrome it just looks like a normal window.

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[CqN]

Arne,

Thank you! I am trying that. It appears to be the window creation.
Is the property gc-poppout-window automatically add the icon for the
Popuout Extension ?

BTW, where is the source of this gv extension? Available to view? If
not, a couple more lines to complete the syntax of usage will be
helpful. Thanks.

CqN

On Mar 15, 10:16 am, Arne Roomann-Kurrik <kur...@chromium.org> wrote:
> It looks like Google Voice is just calling
>

> window.open(chrome.extension.getURL("popup.html"),"gc-popout-window","width =348,height=654")

[Arne Roomann-Kurrik]

I think the icon will be set if you specify a 16px icon in the icons section of your manifest.

You can see the source yourself by inspecting the popup page of the GV extension in the Chrome Developer Tools: http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/docs/overview.html

Hope that helps,

~Arne

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:29 PM, CqN <chacko...@gmail.com> wrote:

Arne,

Thank you!  I am trying that.  It appears to be the window creation.
Is the property gc-poppout-window automatically add the icon for the
Popuout Extension ?

BTW, where is the source of this gv extension?  Available to view?  If
not, a couple more lines to complete the syntax of usage will be
helpful.  Thanks.

CqN

On Mar 15, 10:16 am, Arne Roomann-Kurrik <kur...@chromium.org> wrote:

> It looks like Google Voice is just calling
>

> window.open(chrome.extension.getURL("popup.html"),"gc-popout-window","width =348,height=654")

[CqN]

Arne,

Thank you! I am trying that. It appears to be the window creation.
Is the property gc-poppout-window automatically add the icon for the
Popuout Extension ?

BTW, where is the source of this gv extension? Available to view? If
not, a couple more lines to complete the syntax of usage will be
helpful. Thanks.

CqN


On Mar 15, 10:16 am, Arne Roomann-Kurrik <kur...@chromium.org> wrote:

> It looks like Google Voice is just calling
>

> window.open(chrome.extension.getURL("popup.html"),"gc-popout-window","width =348,height=654")

[CqN]

Arne, Thanks. I think I can view all resources, except the manifest
through the inspect. Correct?

What are the permissions for this g-v ext ? I have not succeeded with
a very trivial test app to do this popout yet.

CqN

[Arne Roomann-Kurrik]

You can get the manifest by going to the url of chrome-extension://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/manifest.json where the xxxxxx part is replaced by the ID listed in the chrome:extensions page.

There shouldn't be any special permissions - this is a standard window.open call.

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[Chacko]

Thanks!  That is good to know about manifest viewing.

BTW, I got yout window.open with that paramter working fine... Originally when I asked you about this, I had a typo...

[Arne Roomann-Kurrik]

Cool, glad to hear.

~Arne

[Chacko]

Arne,

A suggestion:  since there is no easy way to view a file other than html, at least in the chrome cr-48 I know of, it seems like a good idea to have the debugger include the manifest.json file in addition to the resource --- all files in one place.  I assume there is no additional privacy exposure here since once can always view the manifest indirectly as you mentioned below.  If you don't see a problem with this, let me know where I should make this suggestion  for this -- it might be another forum?

BTW, I assume there is no way from the current debugger, while one is viewing/debugging a file, to make a change and save this, at least in the case of unpacked extensions.  Would adding this modify capability to the viewer of the debugger a good enhancement for the developer ease?

CqN

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Chacko <chacko...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Arne Roomann-Kurrik]

Sorry about the delay on this.  You should report any feature requests by following these steps: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/faq.html#faq-fea-02

As for saving the edited file back to disk, I'm not sure I would find it that useful and it seems a bit too specially geared for extensions (wouldn't work for editing a website, for example) but don't let me stop you from filing another feature request.

~Arne