Safari Extension Questions

Question

I\'m in the process of building my first Safari extension--a very simple one--but I\'ve run into a couple of problems. The extension boils down to a single, injected script that

Answer 1

run into the same problem, but the answer is easier than you can imagine: include the script in your global html.

then you can access the settings as described in documentation safari.extension.settings.myKey

you can also upvote @Travis, because I got the idea from his post

//EDIT:
actually I don't really know whats wrong. Calling the settings as the first command works, but not at a later time. Additionally it seems to corrupting my complete script after the 2. injection. Need verification if it's only in my (difficult?) script.

//EDIT2:
now I got it to work to get back the settings object via dispatchMessage()

in your injected.js

function gotSettings(msgEvent) {
   if (msgEvent.name === "SETTINGS") {
      setts = msgEvent.message;
      alert(setts.mySetting1);
      // run the programm
   }
}

safari.self.addEventListener("message", gotSettings, false);
safari.self.tab.dispatchMessage("getSettings");

and in global.html

switch (event.name) {
case "getSettings":
   // send the settings data
   event.target.page.dispatchMessage("SETTINGS", safari.extension.settings);

relying on this apple documentation