639403 - Need method to track active window

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, enhancement, P1)

Description

[PaulV]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12
Build Identifier: 

The windows module allows addons to track two events: "open" and "close". However, there's no way to track the current foreground window.

For example, I wrote an addon to go back to the last active tab. However, it doesn't work correctly if the user switches windows, as it receives no notification of that fact.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to listen for changes to the active window
Actual Results:  
You can't

Expected Results:  
An API along the lines of 
require("windows").browserWindows.on("activate", function(window) {...});

Comment 1

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

(automatic reprioritization of 1.0 bugs)

Comment 2

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

Re-prioritizing all 1.1-targeted feature requests to 1.2.

Comment 3

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

(Pushing all open bugs to the --- milestone for the new triage system)

Comment 4

[Matteo Ferretti [:zer0] [:matteo]]

Attachment: Pointer to Github pull request: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/pull/434

Pointer to Github pull-request

Comment 5

[Matteo Ferretti [:zer0] [:matteo]]

Attachment: Pointer to Github pull request: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/pull/434

Pointer to Github pull-request

Comment 6

[Matteo Ferretti [:zer0] [:matteo]]

Attachment: Pointer to Github pull request: https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/pull/434#

Pointer to Github pull-request

Comment 7

[Matteo Ferretti [:zer0] [:matteo]]

Please, ignore these two last comment and attachments. I have no clue why the github extensions doing that meanwhile I was reading just the comment on github. Sorry for the noise.

Comment 8

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk

https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/commit/f7eaac3e7ee1efd32a66e4fa71d2fb94331798a7
Merge pull request #434 from ZER0/bug639403

fix Bug 639403 - Need method to track active window r=@gozala