activate from shortcut (AYW object not working on browser load until refreshed)

[xthdraft]

I'm having an issue with AYW activation. Here's my test case:

I load my app from a desktop shortcut.

Target: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox18\firefox.exe" file:///C:/xthdraft/v5/v5-3/index.html
Start in: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox18"

When I load the app like this, it opens in firefox OK but the AsYouWish object is unrecognised. So my file i/o functions won't work.

UNTIL I refresh the browser. Then the AYW object loads and I'm good to go.

However, if I start the app without a shortcut, by opening firefox normally, then loading the app from FF's file menu, the AYW object loads and all it good.

To make this a bit clearer: if I load FF the first time, AYW is not recognised. I need to refresh the browser. Note that firebug does not exhibit this shortcoming. Therefore my app has nothing to do with this behaviour.

My question is: how do I make AYW active IMMEDIATELY on FF loading?

Once active, AYW is bulletproof.

Many thanks.

[brettz9]

I am observing the "content-document-global-created" event to inject the AsYouWish global--for some reason when opening a previous session's set of tabs (presumably similar to your situation), this event must not be observed. If you happen to find a better one, let me know and I can try it out.

[xthdraft]

You've probably tried chrome-document-global-created but I can't imagine it would work to make AYW load on first browser boot.

Anyway, for my purposes I simply get the javascript to do a one-time refresh of the browser, which is well documented on the web. The user doesn't notice that and AYW has immediate functionality.

On a seperate issue now, AYW doesn't install on my tablet (using firefox 31). I get a version incompatability message. This is rather important since tablets would be a large user base for apps. needing file i/o

I'm only using firefox 18 on my laptop - I haven't tested installing with firefox 31 except on my tablet.

I'm also raising a very significant issue in a seperate thread.

Thanks again Brett.

[brettz9]

Yeah, I believe I tried chrome-document-global-created.

I'm afraid if you're getting the XPI from Git that you'll have to wind a branch back to before my August 19 (2014) commit and use the XPI from then since I'm moving already toward supporting the latest SDK which requires FF 34+.

[xthdraft]

To be honest, I'm using AYW 0.5.2 which is an early version I believe. I guess I should upgrade to your latest version before bugging you with issues which probably don't even exist. So please forgive me. Carry on with your awesome work on this.

[brettz9]

For security reasons, I strongly suggest you upgrade. If you don't want to go to the trouble of rewinding a Git branch, you can also use the current version (4.0.0) at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/as-you-wish/ . As far as Tablets, I don't know what issues there might be, but I'd try the latest version of Firefox and the 4.0.0 version or 4.1.0 version if the FF version is 34+ . I'll keep this issue open (though rename to include info on refresh) as I would like to find a way to get that resolved.