Add context menuitem to popup menu in Downloads button

Add-ons Development
#1

I want help to add a menuitem in there popup_image . Under the “Remove from History Entry”. My addon is based on xul. My addon is the Deletebutton.

#2

This easy, can you share your code, is it on github?

#3

Thanks for the reply here is the link with the full source code

#4

will look into code later when im free as i have to dig for relavent code on how you do things.

but this is what i attach a menu pop:

http://mdn.beonex.com/en/XUL_Tutorial/Popup_Menus

#5

I have tried this before but I can’t make it play. Because I use XUL overlay and the popup menu is dynamic. When you don’t have downloads this popup menu doesn’t exist so the overlay cannot work. I should use some javascript but I don’t know how. Also had I tried to do it using XUL when the “down arrow” was pressed after a download it didn’t open the download popup. I hope you understand what I am saying.
Thanks.

#6

I haven’t looked at all the code in detail, but maybe you want to overlay “contentAreaDownloadsView.xul” instead of “allDownloadsViewOverlay.xul”

Also, you shouldn’t use ctypes for deleting a file, please use nsiFile.remove()

#7

I prefer OS.File over nsIFile :slight_smile: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript_OS.File/OS.File_for_the_main_thread

#8

Right, I was looking for that, but couldn’t find it :smile:
MDN search is tricky sometimes.

Thank you @noitidart!

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#9

I have tried the contentAreaDownloadsView.xul and it doesn’t work. As for the nsFile.remove I use it when not in Windows platform. When I am in Windows platform I use the Windows API in order to send the file to the Recycle bin. If you use the nsiFile.remove the file is deleted permantly.