Bug 141742 – Web Inspector: Add context menu item to Reload the Inspector

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: Web Inspector

[Nikita Vasilyev]

Created attachment 246793 [details]
Reload Inspector context menu

Currently, it is possible to reload the Inspector by inspecting it and pressing Command R. There should be a way to do that without opening another Inspector instance.

We could add a context menu or/and introduce a shortcut.

[Radar WebKit Bug Importer]

<rdar://problem/19870852>

[Brian Burg]

what about closing and reopening it? This will force a new WKWebView to be created and cause a new navigation.

Note that either option will not reload new resources from the source directory, so you would have to still run the WebInspectorUI build step.

[Brian Burg]

Anyway, to implement this, here's a sketch:

1. We need to set a WKPageContextMenuClient in InspectorProxy.cpp, near where the other clients are initialized.

2. The callback in there needs to create an array with proposed menu items. I think these are added before Inspect Element, which is generated deep inside WebCore.

3. The item is created using WKContextMenuItemCreateAsAction(kWKContextMenuItemTagReload, WKStringCreateWithUTF8CString("Reload Inspector"), true)

4. Profit!

[Blaze Burg]

Created attachment 266202 [details]
Proposed Fix

This patch won't apply without the dependent patch.

[Nikita Vasilyev]

Command-Option-R toggles responsive design mode in Safari.
Now, pressing Command-Option-R once enters responsive design mode.
Pressing it again, toggles the right sidebar.
https://cloudup.com/c-qJT91xLhK

[Nikita Vasilyev]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Command-Option-R toggles responsive design mode in Safari.
> Now, pressing Command-Option-R once enters responsive design mode.
> Pressing it again, toggles the right sidebar.
> https://cloudup.com/c-qJT91xLhK

Whoops, wrong bug.

[Nikita Vasilyev]

Thanks for working on this!

While we are at it, would it make sense to add a keyboard shortcut too? Maybe Cmd-Ctrl-R.

[Timothy Hatcher]

Comment on attachment 266202 [details]
Proposed Fix

View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=266202&action=review

> Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/Base/Main.js:888
> +    return string;

Worthy of a comment.

> Source/WebInspectorUI/UserInterface/Base/Main.js:1342
> +        proposedContextMenu.appendItem(WebInspector.unlocalizedString("Reload Web Inspector"), () => {

Might want to add a separator item.

[Blaze Burg]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Thanks for working on this!
> 
> While we are at it, would it make sense to add a keyboard shortcut too?
> Maybe Cmd-Ctrl-R.

I held back from this since we have several reload-related shortcuts already. Do we have a clear system to distinguish shortcuts that affect the inspector vs inspected page? I have been using Cmd-Option- as a prefix for some shortcuts that would typically be in the "View" menu.

[Blaze Burg]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Thanks for working on this!
> 
> While we are at it, would it make sense to add a keyboard shortcut too?
> Maybe Cmd-Ctrl-R.

I will add it as Cmd-Opt-Shift-R. This matches Cmd-Opt-Shift-D (Toggle Debug UI). We generally don't use Ctrl and Cmd in shortcuts, since they are the same thing on other platforms.

[Blaze Burg]

Committed r192790: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/192790>