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cezarsa / silver_bird

Extension to access your Twitter from the Google Chrome browser.
http://cezarsa.github.com/silver_bird/
MIT License
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Shortcut #16

Open jacarui opened 14 years ago

jacarui commented 14 years ago

A shortcut to open and close chromed bird like ctrl+shift+i.

cezarsa commented 14 years ago

That's currently a limitation of Chrome's extensions API. There's no way to open the popup window besides clicking the extension's icon.

jacarui commented 14 years ago

I think I could live without this one. Thanks for your replies and your work :)

pjg418 commented 12 years ago

How about once we click on the bird a shortcut (i.e. ctrl+alt+L) to grab the url of the current tab and send it through the url shortner and paste to the tweet space? Would that be possible?

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/extension.html

shows a getURL extension

pjg418 commented 12 years ago

also you can use alt to get to the extension button area and then the arrow key to get to app and enter to open it...which is better than mouse IMO...however then you can't use any keyboard inputs to control the app...which puts the mouse right back as being better :/

kav2k commented 11 years ago

That's currently a limitation of Chrome's extensions API. There's no way to open the popup window besides clicking the extension's icon.

Technically, it's no longer true. There is, expressly, an API to have a keyboard shortcut open the popup.

See https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/commands.html (specifically _execute_browser_action)

But the API is still not good enough, IMO: it assigns the shortcut in the manifest, and doesn't have a way to manage it (reassign, deactivate, etc.)

Some additional steps are taken in current Dev, at least the docs mention that the user can "assign additional shortcuts." So quite soon users may have this capability with no work on your part.

pjg418 commented 11 years ago

COOL COOL COOL! :) Thanks for the reply! Good Luck :)

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:45 AM, Alexander Kashev notifications@github.comwrote:

That's currently a limitation of Chrome's extensions API. There's no way to open the popup window besides clicking the extension's icon.

Technically, it's no longer true. There is, expressly, an API to have a keyboard shortcut open the popup.

See https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/commands.html (specifically _execute_browser_action)

But the API is still not good enough, IMO: it assigns the shortcut in the manifest, and doesn't have a way to manage it (reassign, deactivate, etc.)

Some additional steps are taken in current Dev, at least the docs mention that the user can "assign additional shortcuts." So quite soon users may have this capability with no work on your part.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/cezarsa/silver_bird/issues/16#issuecomment-19961106 .