gecko/dom/interfaces/base/nsIBrowserDOMWindow.idl

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/* -*- Mode: IDL; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
2012-05-21 04:12:37 -07:00
/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
* file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
#include "nsISupports.idl"
interface nsIDOMWindow;
interface nsIURI;
interface nsIFrameLoaderOwner;
[scriptable, uuid(e420bd32-b8c4-4b47-8cca-09e0bddbb0c3)]
/**
* The C++ source has access to the browser script source through
* nsIBrowserDOMWindow. It is intended to be attached to the chrome DOMWindow
* of a toplevel browser window (a XUL window). A DOMWindow that does not
* happen to be a browser chrome window will simply have no access to any such
* interface.
*/
interface nsIBrowserDOMWindow : nsISupports
{
/**
* Values for openURI's aWhere parameter.
*/
/**
* Do whatever the default is based on application state, user preferences,
* and the value of the aContext parameter to openURI.
*/
const short OPEN_DEFAULTWINDOW = 0;
/**
* Open in the "current window". If aOpener is provided, this should be the
* top window in aOpener's window hierarchy, but exact behavior is
* application-dependent. If aOpener is not provided, it's up to the
* application to decide what constitutes a "current window".
*/
const short OPEN_CURRENTWINDOW = 1;
/**
* Open in a new window.
*/
const short OPEN_NEWWINDOW = 2;
/**
* Open in a new content tab in the toplevel browser window corresponding to
* this nsIBrowserDOMWindow.
*/
const short OPEN_NEWTAB = 3;
/**
* Open in an existing content tab based on the URI. If a match can't be
* found, revert to OPEN_NEWTAB behavior.
*/
const short OPEN_SWITCHTAB = 4;
/**
* Values for openURI's aContext parameter. These affect the behavior of
* OPEN_DEFAULTWINDOW.
*/
/**
* external link (load request from another application, xremote, etc).
*/
const short OPEN_EXTERNAL = 1;
/**
* internal open new window
*/
const short OPEN_NEW = 2;
/**
* Load a URI
* @param aURI the URI to open. null is allowed. If null is passed in, no
* load will be done, though the window the load would have
* happened in will be returned.
* @param aWhere see possible values described above.
* @param aOpener window requesting the open (can be null).
* @param aContext the context in which the URI is being opened. This
* is used only when aWhere == OPEN_DEFAULTWINDOW.
* @return the window into which the URI was opened.
*/
nsIDOMWindow openURI(in nsIURI aURI, in nsIDOMWindow aOpener,
in short aWhere, in short aContext);
/**
* As above, but return the nsIFrameLoaderOwner for the new window.
// XXXbz is this the right API? Do we really need the opener here?
// See bug 537428
*/
nsIFrameLoaderOwner openURIInFrame(in nsIURI aURI, in nsIDOMWindow aOpener,
in short aWhere, in short aContext);
/**
* @param aWindow the window to test.
* @return whether the window is the main content window for any
* currently open tab in this toplevel browser window.
*/
boolean isTabContentWindow(in nsIDOMWindow aWindow);
/**
* The contentWindow property of the currently selected browser.
* This is used to implement .content in remote-Firefox.
*/
readonly attribute jsval contentWindow;
};