Chrome Extension: LaunchBox Games Database Search

[Vlansix]

Hi all,

 

Just wrote a quick extension to make my life easier while moderating the Games DB, and figured some people might find it handy. Allows you to highlight text and click the icon to search the games database. It's not fancy, doesn't have any bells and whistles and may have bugs (although I'd be surprised, as it's about six lines of code long), but lemme know if it does anything wonky.

 

Here you go: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/launchbox-games-database/mkmihhifnfgdngaabcehmcpkdcdbfdnd

Source.7z

Edited October 19, 2016 by Vlansix

[SentaiBrad]

Sweet! Thanks for the add-on, that's really awesome. Now here's to hoping for a Firefox version.

[Vlansix]

Heya Brad,

Lemme see if I can't throw some love at the Firefox peoples. I'll have some coffee and duct tape/WD-40 it into firefox somehow.

edit: Just looked into it and Firefox *should* support it as-is. I'll just upload it to mozilla's servers, test it out a bit and be right back :P.

Edited October 17, 2016 by Vlansix

[SentaiBrad]

The easier the better! Thanks for taking a look at it, something like this is really awesome.

[Vlansix]

@SentaiBrad - New thread is up for the FF version.

[Vlansix]

Update: updated to match FireFox version and made public on the chrome store.

[Cebion]

Thanks for this awesome addon. I have one issue with it though. It always opens a new windows instead of opening a new tab. That's a bit annoying

[Vlansix]

@Cebion - Thanks for the feedback :). I just threw this together pretty quickly. I'll have a look at it a bit later and fix that.

[Evil_Orko]

works excellent, but I have the same request.  use a new tab instead of a new window and it will work perfect!

[Vlansix]

Rightyo. I'll get this fixed sometime tonight, once I'm done with the database stuff. Really just consists of changing chrome.windows.create to chrome.tabs.create and getting the manifest to request permissions to use tabs. If anyone is impatient, just change that in the LGDSbackgroundpage.js (and manifest.json), and it should use tabs instead. Otherwise, it'll take a day or so for the mozilla/chrome people to approve the changes :). I'll advise once it's online.