Replicating Google Chrome Browser Actions popup Effect in a Firefox Extension

Chrome Browser Actions prov开发者_如何转开发ide a really nice popup effect by default.

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• Hovering over the toolbar icon provides a neat hover effect.

• Clicking the toolbar icon shows a nice animation that opens the popup html file.

• The popup is aligned with the button that is pressed.

• Clicking the toolbar icon again fades out the popup.

Any thoughts on how to approximate this effect with Firefox extensions? Has anybody successfully achieved something similar to this effect?

Thanks.

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For everyone who is just starting with your first Firefox extension like I did here is an example code:

yourextname\chrome\content\browser.xul

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://yourextname/skin/toolbar.css" type="text/css"?>

<overlay id="yourextname_overlay" xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul">
    <popupset>
        <menupopup id="yourextname_menu_popup">
            <menuitem label="Website" oncommand="gBrowser.selectedTab = gBrowser.addTab('http://www.your-website.com/');" />
            <menuseparator />
            <menuitem label="Options" oncommand="window.open('chrome://yourextname/content/options.xul', 'Options', 'dialog,chrome,modal,titlebar,toolbar,centerscreen=yes');" />
        </menupopup>

        <panel id="yourextname_popup" noautohide="false" noautofocus="true">
            <label control="vvvname" value="Name:"/><textbox id="vvvname"/>
        </panel>
    </popupset>

    <toolbarpalette id="BrowserToolbarPalette">
        <toolbarbutton id="yourextname_toolbar_button" class="toolbarbutton-1" context="yourextname_menu_popup" oncommand="document.getElementById('yourextname_popup').openPopup(document.getElementById('yourextname_toolbar_button'), 'after_start', 0, 0, false, false);" label="button name" tooltiptext="tooltip" />
    </toolbarpalette>
</overlay>

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yourextname\skin\toolbar.css
This will add icon to the toolbar button:

#yourextname_toolbar_button {
    list-style-image:url(chrome://yourextname/skin/icon_024.png);
}

toolbar[iconsize="small"] #yourextname_toolbar_button {
    list-style-image:url(chrome://yourextname/skin/icon_016.png);
}

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yourextname\chrome.manifest

content yourextname chrome/content/
overlay chrome://browser/content/browser.xul chrome://yourextname/content/overlay.xul

skin    yourextname classic/1.0 skin/
style   chrome://global/content/customizeToolbar.xul chrome://yourextname/skin/toolbar.css

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NOTE: Make sure you replace all "yourextname" strings with something unique, best with your extension name.

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In case anybody is researching this and trying to find out the answer, ultimately using a panel within the toolbarpalette in the browser.xul file worked well for me.