903353 - Offer a method to update panel position in Add-on SDK

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[WM]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130730113002

Steps to reproduce:

I want to update the panel position after I created it use:
  panel = require("panel").Panel();
But there is no method to do this except creating another one with the updated position options.




Expected results:

I think that panel should have a panel.position  property to do this just like panel.contentURL to change panel content.

Comment 1

[Irakli Gozalishvili [:irakli] [:gozala] [@gozala]]

As a matter of fact Panel.show can be given position as an option which will specify new position it must be displayed at:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/latest/modules/sdk/panel.html#show%28options%29

This overrides position only for a given call, but if you wanna capture new position
for future calls it's pretty easy given show's ability:

let showTop = panel => panel.show({ position: myTopPosition })
let showCenter = panel => panel.show({ position: myCenteredPosition })

As a matter of fact this will even allow you to apply positions to a different panels.

Comment 2

[WM]

Thanks, It is to be regretted that no method to update the default position.