Update context menu label before visualization

[dafi]

I need to update the context menu label before it appears on screen.

Consider the standard context menu 'Search' that shows the initial
part of selection

Search "lorem ipsum..." with Google

I need to create the label based on url and selection

Any hint?

thanks in advance

[Mohamed Mansour]

If you need to update the context menu, you can use:

chrome.contextMenus.update(integer id, object updateProperties, function callback)

Mentioned here:

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

You keep track of your contextMenu id in your background page, and you refer to that id when you request an update for the updateProperties.title.

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[dafi]

I know about update but I must update **before** the menu is shown on
screen inspecting the menu target type (image, link, video, audio) so
the question is

Is there an event to listen to update menu item before it appears on
screen?
Firefox has popupshowing/popuphidden to change menu properties before
it is shown

On Oct 18, 3:19 pm, Mohamed Mansour <m0.interact...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you need to update the context menu, you can use:
> chrome.contextMenus.update(integer id, object updateProperties, function
> callback)
>
> Mentioned here:http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/contextMenus.html
>
> You keep track of your contextMenu id in your background page, and you refer
> to that id when you request an update for the updateProperties.title.
>
> -
> Mohamed Mansour
> m...@chromium.org
>

> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 2:35 AM, dafi <davide.fic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I need to update the context menu label before it appears on screen.
>
> > Consider the standard context menu 'Search' that shows the initial
> > part of selection
>
> > Search "lorem ipsum..." with Google
>
> > I need to create the label based on url and selection
>
> > Any hint?
>
> > thanks in advance
>
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[Mohamed Mansour]

Dafi, did you try doing something like this:

chrome.experimental.contextMenu.create({"title": "Searching '%s'", "onclick": getSearch,

                          "contexts":["SELECTION"]});

The %s is the placeholder.

You can read more about it here:

http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-extensions/browse_thread/thread/44a514e96f8f78d8/d1e93844adf8a1c4

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[dafi]

Great!! This works fine on selection ;)

Now I need to understand if I can crate my own label and everything
goes ok

thanks again,

dafi

On Oct 18, 4:17 pm, Mohamed Mansour <m...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Dafi, did you try doing something like this:
>
> chrome.experimental.contextMenu.create({"title": "Searching '%s'",
> "onclick": getSearch,
>                           "contexts":["SELECTION"]});
>
> The %s is the placeholder.
>

> You can read more about it here:http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-extensions/bro...<http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-extensions/bro...>
> <http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-extensions/bro...>
> -
> Mohamed Mansour
> m...@chromium.org

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[PhistucK]

Can you, please, update this in the documentation (feel free to copyedit ;))?

title 

( optional string )

This must be specified unless type is 'separator'.
When the 'selection' context is used, "%s" can be added within the string, in order to show the selected text.
Example - Translate '%s' with the dictionary --> Translate 'cool' with the dictionary.

Thank you.

☆PhistucK

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[Kathy Walrath]

Sure, I'll do it. That looks like a good change (though of course I
can't stop myself from copyediting :).

-k-

[Antony Sargent]

Please feel free to improve the rest of the page while you're in there. =)

[Dan Atkinson]

Is there any way that this can be extended to, say images?

I'm writing an extension which will update one of the sections in the
context menus with the name of the current image.

However, there's no way of doing this when the context menu is shown.

Thanks, Dan

On Oct 18, 3:17 pm, Mohamed Mansour <m...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Dafi, did you try doing something like this:
>
> chrome.experimental.contextMenu.create({"title": "Searching '%s'",
> "onclick": getSearch,
>                           "contexts":["SELECTION"]});
>
> The %s is the placeholder.
>

> You can read more about it here:http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-extensions/bro...<http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-extensions/bro...>
> <http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-extensions/bro...>

> > <chromium-extensions%2Bunsubscr...@chromium.org<chromium-extensions%252Bunsubscr...@chromium.org>

[Arne Roomann-Kurrik]

It's not possible - check crbug.com for an existing request and file one if you don't fine anything.

Out of curiosity, what's the "name" of an image?  Would you just use alt text or the name attribute if available? 

~Arne

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[Dan Atkinson]

Hi Arne,

Thank you for getting back to me. A cursory search for 'contextMenus'
shows nothing related to this issue.

When I say 'name' of the image, I mean the filename. So, for example,
let's say we have the url http://www.example.com/images/myImage3.jpg,
the filename/name will be 'myImage3.jpg'. Sorry for the confusion; I
should have said filename.

I suppose that using the alt text could be acceptable, although the
existence of it shouldn't be relied upon as the image could actually
be in its own tab.

For my purposes though, I only want the image name as it's a feature
I'm trying to add to my extension - ChromeFusk (https://
chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/glieaboaghdnlglpkekghloldikefofo).

Many thanks, Dan

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[Dan Atkinson]

I have raised this as http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=60758.

Thanks, Dan

On Oct 26, 5:04 pm, Dan Atkinson <d...@dan-atkinson.com> wrote:
> Hi Arne,
>
> Thank you for getting back to me. A cursory search for 'contextMenus'
> shows nothing related to this issue.
>
> When I say 'name' of the image, I mean the filename. So, for example,

> let's say we have the urlhttp://www.example.com/images/myImage3.jpg,

[Arne Roomann-Kurrik]

Thanks!  Filename makes sense, although it may be easier to get a new substitution pattern put in than the ability to arbitrarily change the text (you wouldn't want extension code slowing down the UI for things like context menus).  We'll see how the issue gets triaged.

~Arne

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