I\'m trying to listen to custom event \'peakAhBoo\' so I add the event listener to gBrowser
and if no gBrowser
is present then I add it to aD
ok, now i see what you mean, but according to MDN you need to use this:
document.addEventListener("MyExtensionEvent", function(e) { myExtension.myListener(e); }, false, true);
// The last value is a Mozilla-specific value to indicate untrusted content is allowed to trigger the event
source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Code_snippets/Interaction_between_privileged_and_non-privileged_pages
I tested it and it works!
web page:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main-content"><button onclick="trigger()">Trigger custom event</button></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
function trigger(){
var myEvent = new CustomEvent('peakAhBoo', {
'detail': {
'hazcheeseburger': true
}
});
var myEvent = window.document.createEvent('CustomEvent');
var myEventDetail = {hello:'world'};
myEvent.initCustomEvent('peakAhBoo', true, true, myEventDetail);
window.dispatchEvent(myEvent);
console.log(myEvent)
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
and in privileged code:
function respondToCustomEvent_peakAhBoo(e){
console.log('g: '+e.target);
}
gBrowser.addEventListener("peakAhBoo", respondToCustomEvent_peakAhBoo, false, true);