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Tyhrstan B.1
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10 years ago

Drop-in Chooser on Windows Phone 8.1

Hi, On the previous dropbox forum I posted an issue regarding the Dropbox Chooser on Windows Phone. I stated that when using desktop mode on IE (windows phone) the dropbox chooser works as expec...
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Tyhrstan B.1's avatar
Tyhrstan B.1
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Hi Steve,

Great that you've been able to reproduce the behaviour.

I believe what might be the reason is that the alert is initiated from the background page, while the background page is not visible.
To my understand the chooser works as following: when you select a file from the chooser the [success] function on background page is invoked and after this function completes the chooser page is 'closed'. probably an alert message can only be shown from and on the active page.

I'm looking forward to seeing the changes in library!

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