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Lazy
Lazy

Reputation: 277

Safari Extension, open url in a new Tab from popup window

My extension opens a popup window from globalpage.html

safari.application.openBrowserWindow()

I would like to open some url from popup window in the new tab of main window. I don't have an access to

safari.extension.globalPage

or

safari.application.xxxxx

Upvotes: 2

Views: 9183

Answers (2)

Troy
Troy

Reputation: 971

This worked for me. It's linked to a toolbar item with the command of "myCommand". I didn't need to add an injection script, and just placed this in my global.html file.

There is a disable if there is no URL loaded in tab, but I turned that off by commending out the line starting in "event.target.disabled..."

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
function performCommand(event)
{
    if (event.command === "myCommand") {
    safari.application.activeBrowserWindow.openTab().url = "http://www.yourdomain.com/";   
 }
}
function validateCommand(event)
{
    if (event.command === "myCommand") {
        // Disable the button if there is no URL loaded in the tab.
       // event.target.disabled = !event.target.browserWindow.activeTab.url;
    }
}

// if event handlers are in the global HTML page,
// register with application:
safari.application.addEventListener("command", performCommand, true);
safari.application.addEventListener("validate", validateCommand, true);
</script>

Upvotes: 1

chulster
chulster

Reputation: 2829

From your injected script you need to send a message to the global page that tells it to open a new tab.

In the injected script:

safari.self.tab.dispatchMessage('openUrlInNewTab', 'http://www.example.com/');

// the message name 'openUrlInNewTab' is arbitrary

In the global page script:

function handleMessage(msgEvent) {
    if (msgEvent.name == 'openUrlInNewTab') {
        safari.application.activeBrowserWindow.openTab().url = msgEvent.message;
    }
}

safari.application.addEventListener('message', handleMessage, false);

(Here's the relevant section of the Safari extension development guide.)

However, if you want to open the new tab in another window than the frontmost one—which in your case will presumably be your popup—you need to identify the other window somehow. For example, just before you open the popup, you could copy the active window to a variable, like this:

var targetWin = safari.application.activeBrowserWindow;

Then, when you want to open a new tab in it, use:

targetWin.openTab().url = msgEvent.message;

Upvotes: 4

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