[Greasemonkey] kill an alert() popup from the script?

[Vectorspace]

That just might work... That's so simple, why didn't I think of that? :)

Thanks, I'll give it a go later

Mook wrote:
> Can you use GM_setValue to set a flag to indicate whether the alert is
> open, and just skip the alert() if it is set (doing so in the
> setTimeout callback of course)?
>
> To get fancier, possibly keep track of the time the alert is closed -
> since alert() blocks, the statement after the alert should be after it
> is closed.  While it's open, of course, this would just be Infinity. 
> That way you could event do suppression if the last dialog of closed
> within half a second of trying to open a new one, etc.
>
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> Mook
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> On 3/2/06, Vectorspace <vectorspace at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>   
>> window.focus() doesn't do enough - it only focuses the window if a
>> Firefox window is active, and if the tab the script is running in is the
>> active tab in its window. If a non-Firefox window is active, or if all
>> Firefox windows are minimised, or if the script is not running in an
>> active tab then nothing happens. I need to see something happen
>> regardless of all that, which is why I was using alert() - it forces
>> focus to that specific tab regardless of what window or tab is active,
>> even if it is a non-Firefox one.
>>
>> Lenny Domnitser wrote:
>>     
>>> On 3/2/06, Vectorspace <vectorspace at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> My javascript isn't that good, but I think I understand... You're using
>>>> open() to execute a set of javascript instructions, as if you typed them
>>>> into the address bar (like a bookmarklet).
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Yes. That wrapper just executes the script as if it were a bookmarklet.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I don't know what uneval() does
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> It just produce the Javascript source as a string. For example,
>>> uneval('foo') == '"foo"'
>>>
>>> I assumed that the alerts were coming from the web page. If only the
>>> user script is producing the alerts, then you don't need that wrapper,
>>> since you can just define a function in the Greasemonkey sandbox.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> The reason I use an alert popup is that it forces focus to the browser
>>>> window and tab that spawned the alert, even if a non-Firefox window is
>>>> active. And, if all browser windows are minimised, the taskbar icon for
>>>> that window becomes highlighted. Will this still apply automatically, or
>>>> will it be something I have to write? Because I don't know how to do that.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> If that is the only thing you need, you can skip alert or custom
>>> functions and just use window.focus.
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