Web Plugins and the views hide event

When the view for the plugin is displayed it's show event is triggered. But when it disappears its hide event isn't triggered.

Hello John,

The view's Hide event are mainly intended to be used when the user changes into another app's view. I think this also works as expected in WebExtensions. However, the WebExtensions itself do not offers something like an "on close popup" event, so, we simply can't use something like that.

I think the best can be to try to do the things in another manner, that is, don't rely in something like that. Maybe it's possible to do something about, but, probably a bit tricky. For example, you can attach a "body click" event in the WebExtension's content, because, when the user click the page, if the WebExtension's popup is open, become closed.

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Essentially my plugin has a view and when this view closes I want the app to do something as the view disappears.

Hello John,

If you need to do something when a view is change to another view, then yes, the view's Hide event can be used, however, unfortunately there is nothing like a "popup close event" (which is what I understand that you wanted, do something when the WebExtension's popup is closed), but the browsers do not provide something like that, John.

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The view has a text box on it. When the view disappears I want it to store the value of that text box in the browsers storage. What would be the best way to achieve this ?

Hello John,

I think the best way is to use a Save button, below the text box, for example. Something like "Press here to save", so the user know that, if he want to save that text box, must press the Save button. Another possible way (but I probably prefer the first one) is to use the text box keyup event, so you can save the text box content just when the user type on it. I prefer the first way, however, probably the second one can be also take in consideration.

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I used the KeyUp event and that has achieved what I needed to do. Thanks.

Hello John,

Yes;... I mean... I told you about the possible usage of a push button, and, thinking twice, probably the keyup event can be nice for this specific case and similar ones.

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