Reputation: 210
I'm using Erik Vold's toolbarbutton API with Mozilla's Addon-SDK and was wondering if there is a way linking a menu-item in order to open a mail programm onclick.
For a widget this is trivial since I can just add a <a href="mailto:xxxxx"></a>
to the HTML of the corresponding panel.
But what about the toolbarbutton-menu? Is there anything like type: "email"
for instance which would allow modifying the toolbarbutton API?
EDIT:
What I already tried without success:
giving the menu-item href attribute (including class text-link
)
adding anchor element as childNode to menu-item
Upvotes: 0
Views: 444
Reputation: 57671
You don't need a link, you can simply "request" that URL yourself:
var {ToolbarButton} = require("toolbarbutton");
var {Request} = require("sdk/request");
ToolbarButton({
...
onCommand: function () {
try {
Request({url: "mailto:[email protected]"}).get();
}
catch (e) {
// Ignore "no data will be returned" exception
}
}
});
This request will have exactly the same effect as the user clicking the link - no data will be returned but the mail application window will open.
Upvotes: 2