Drop-in Chooser on Windows Phone 8.1

I'm not sure if this is the case,
The emulator in Visual Studio runs regular Windows Phone 8.1 and I can produce similar results.

If you could change:

<button id="clickme">Click me</button>
    <script>
        Dropbox.isBrowserSupported = function() { return true; };
        $('#clickme').click(function (e) {
            e.preventDefault();
            Dropbox.choose({
                linkType: 'direct',
                success: function (files) {
                    alert('Worked: ' + files[0].link);
                }
            });
        });
    </script>

to:

<button id="clickme">Click me</button>
<br />
<span id="result"></span>
    <script>
        Dropbox.isBrowserSupported = function() { return true; };
        $('#clickme').click(function (e) {
            e.preventDefault();
            Dropbox.choose({
                linkType: 'direct',
                success: function (files) {
                    $('#result').text('Worked: ' + files[0].link);
                }
            });
        });
    </script>

I think it should work.

That change won't matter on my test device, since the Chooser "popup" (not really) never closes, so that code is never executed.

I was unable to get the phone emulator to connect to the internet on my Surface, so I gave up testing there and used a real device instead. I imagine the emulator uses the latest IE also, so your result doesn't surprise me. (If it works on your Nokia, I would expect it to work on the emulator too.)

I understand you can't make changes if you can't reproduce this behaviour.

The emulator (Virtual Machine) in my Visual Studio doens't run the latest version, I haven't got the latest (Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1) emulators installed from https://dev.windows.com/en-us/develop/downloads, only the Windows Phone 8.1 version.

I hope future updates will make this possible.

Could you tell me wich phone model / OS version your using? Perhaps I can find the same phone and OS version to test my findings.

Okay, we actually managed to reproduce the behavior you're seeing. The alert was indeed the problem, though I don't understand how. (The alert on the background page seems to have blocked the Chooser page from actually closing?)

In any case, this works for us too on Windows Phone 8.1 Update 1. We're trying to track down a Windows Phone 8.1 without any updates to verify that it works on all versions of Windows Phone 8.1. If it does, we'll change the logic in the library to allow use on Windows Phone 8.1.

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!

We managed to test this on a non-updated Windows Phone 8.1, and the Chooser works fine there too.

An update to the JS library should come out early next week, at which point the Chooser should just work by default on Windows Phone 8.1. Thanks much for pointing this out and hanging in there while we tested!

Hi Steve,

That's great news! I'm already seeing the updated version.
I'm glad I could help out.