Closed Bug 995841 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

toolbaritem added to menu panel cannot be accessed by addon until after user manually opens menu panel

Categories

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Toolbars and Customization
Version:
29 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 941903

People

(Reporter: trevorhemail-mozbug, Unassigned)

Details

Steps to reproduce:
1. Add a toolbaritem to the menu panel either with CustomizableUI.addWidgetToArea or manually.
2. Restart Firefox
3. In Addon code trying to reference the toolbaritem with document.getElementById is not possible
4. Click to open the menu panel
5. In Addon code trying to reference the toolbaritem with document.getElementById is now possible

This behavior is different to adding to other areas that are not visible.
You can use CustomizableUI.getWidget(yourWidgetId).forWindow(window).node to workaround. This is always available. You can check whether the widget is in "some area" rather than in the palette by checking if CustomizableUI.getPlacementOfWidget(yourWidgetId) returns an object or null.

We've tried to fix the panel case in the past, but the performance characteristics are bad, and so we haven't.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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