create tabs in a new window

**shbae** · 03-09-2011, 03:35 AM

Hello,
I got a question about opening a new window and additional tabs in that window. What I want to do is that when the extension icon is clicked, a small popup is presented, where a link is shown. When the link is clicked, open multiple URLs in a new window. Here is my code:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
function call1(){
  chrome.windows.create({url:"http://www.cnn.com"}, function (win1){
    console.log("message1");
    chrome.tabs.create({url:"http://www.yahoo.com/", windowId:win1.id});
});
  console.log("message2");
}
</script>
<body>
<a href="javascript:call1();">Click me</a><br>
</body>

When the "Click me" is clicked, a new window is opened showing only cnn page, not any more tabs, although showing yahoo page is expected.

An interesting point is that when I run the same thing under debug mode, it works as I wanted (also putting the two messages out well).

Could anybody help me to figure this out?

**PAEz** · 03-09-2011, 11:39 AM

I had a bit of a look at this for ya and it looks like you found a bug....or maybe this is how its meant to be.

Your right, it works fine if you inspect popup and click on the link, but if you dont inspect popup then the callback is never called (unless....look below).

There seems to be two ways for you to get around this.....

Create Window can open more than one url, example......

Code:

function call1(){
  chrome.windows.create({url:["http://www.cnn.com","http://www.yahoo.com/"]});
}

Also, it does seem to call the callback if the callback is in the background page....which is why I wonder if this is a bug or if its expected behaviour....thing is the life of the popup is only while its visible, so after you open the other window the callback no longer exists as the popup window has closed (this is only a guess but I think it might be right).
Heres an example of using a background page....

Background.html

Code:

<script>
function tabss(winn){
  //  console.log("message1");
    chrome.tabs.create({url:"http://www.yahoo.com/", windowId:winn.id});
	alert("tabs");
}
</script>

popup.html

Code:

function call1(){
  chrome.windows.create({url:["http://www.cnn.com","http://www.yahoo.com/"]},chrome.extension.getBackgroundPage().tabss);
}

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