Creating an On/Off switch for my extension

[Joshua Hicks]

How would I go about doing this? I just want to add a simple switch in default_popup so the user can enable/disable my extension.

Thanks

[PhistucK]

You can disable extensions using the management API, but the user will have to re-enable the extension manually.

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On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Joshua Hicks <josh...@gmail.com> wrote:

How would I go about doing this? I just want to add a simple switch in default_popup so the user can enable/disable my extension.

Thanks

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[Joshua Hicks]

update: I added an on/off switch but it's just CSS and HTML right now. It goes on/off but doesn't do anything with the disable/enable the extension because there isn't any code for it. How would I link the two? What kind of code has to be written?

[Wolf War]

on button click (or whatever)

chrome.management.setEnabled(yourExtensionID, false);

[PhistucK]

Yes, but if the extension is disabled, it cannot show a button to enable itself. Another extension must be used.

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[Joshua Hicks]

I just want it to enable/disable the script, not the actual extension, sorry I worded it wrong 

here's what my default_popup looks like now 

when it's switched on, I want it to run. When switched off, I want the script to be disabled.

here's the button I used https://proto.io/freebies/onoff/

I assume I'd have to declare it as a variable or something to give it a function but I don't know how

here's my script.js file - http://jsfiddle.net/ex04a7t7/6/

sorry guys, I'm really new to this stuff

On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 5:39:45 AM UTC-5, PhistucK wrote:

Yes, but if the extension is disabled, it cannot show a button to enable itself. Another extension must be used.

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On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Wolf War <wolf...@gmail.com> wrote:

on button click (or whatever)

chrome.management.setEnabled(yourExtensionID, false);

On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 11:15:40 AM UTC+1, Joshua Hicks wrote:

update: I added an on/off switch but it's just CSS and HTML right now. It goes on/off but doesn't do anything with the disable/enable the extension because there isn't any code for it. How would I link the two? What kind of code has to be written?

On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 2:25:51 AM UTC-5, Joshua Hicks wrote:

How would I go about doing this? I just want to add a simple switch in default_popup so the user can enable/disable my extension.

Thanks

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[PhistucK]

Hm... is this script run within the popup? Within the page?

If it is run within the page, you should send a message to the page using chrome.tabs.sendMessage (and listen to the message using chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener.

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[Joshua Hicks]

A friend told me to change the code around and create two named functions instead of having anonymous ones. One to enable, and one to disable. Then attach event handlers to the button's "click" event to run the enable/disable function

that'd be cool and ultimately give me what I want, but I have no idea how to get started 

[PhistucK]

When you write "button", do you mean the browser action?

If so, you need a background script that will listen to the click event on the browser action.

Read the documentation for more details -

https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/browserAction

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On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Joshua Hicks <josh...@gmail.com> wrote:

A friend told me to change the code around and create two named functions instead of having anonymous ones. One to enable, and one to disable. Then attach event handlers to the button's "click" event to run the enable/disable function

that'd be cool and ultimately give me what I want, but I have no idea how to get started 

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