gecko/dom/public/idl/base/nsIDOMJSWindow.idl

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#include "domstubs.idl"

[scriptable, uuid(c8188620-1dd1-11b2-bc88-df8440498add)]
interface nsIDOMJSWindow : nsISupports
{
  void                      dump(in DOMString str);

  /**
   * These methods take typeless arguments and optional arguments, the
   * first argument is either a function or a string, the second
   * argument must be a number (ms) and the rest of the arguments (2
   * ... n) are passed to the callback function
   */
  long                      setTimeout();
  long                      setInterval();

  /**
   * These methods take one optional argument that's the timer ID to
   * clear. Often in existing code these methods are passed undefined,
   * which is a nop so we need to support that as well.
   */
  void                      clearTimeout();
  void                      clearInterval();

  /**
   * This method is here for backwards compatibility with 4.x only,
   * its implementation is a no-op
   */
  void                      setResizable(in boolean resizable);

  /**
   * @deprecated These are old Netscape 4 methods. Do not use,
   *             the implementation is no-op.
   */
  void                      captureEvents(in long eventFlags);
  void                      releaseEvents(in long eventFlags);
  void                      routeEvent(in nsIDOMEvent evt);
  void                      enableExternalCapture();
  void                      disableExternalCapture();

  /**
   * The prompt method takes up to four arguments, the arguments are
   * message, initial prompt value, title and a save password flag
   */
  DOMString                 prompt();

  /**
   * These are the scriptable versions of nsIDOMWindowInternal::open() and
   * nsIDOMWindowInternal::openDialog() that take 3 optional arguments.  Unlike
   * the nsIDOMWindowInternal methods, these methods assume that they are
   * called from JavaScript and hence will look on the JS context stack to
   * determine the caller and hence correct security context for doing their
   * search for an existing named window.  Also, these methods will set the
   * default charset on the newly opened window based on the current document
   * charset in the caller.
   */
  nsIDOMWindow              open();
  nsIDOMWindow              openDialog();

  /**
   * window.frames in Netscape 4.x and IE is just a reference to the
   * window itself (i.e. window.frames === window), but this doesn't
   * make sense from a generic API point of view so that's why this is
   * JS specific.
   *
   * This property is "replaceable" in JavaScript.
   */
  readonly attribute nsIDOMWindow             frames;

  /* Scriptable version of find(). See nsIDOMWindowInternal for the
   * non-scriptable version. It takes 7 optional arguments:
   * @param searchString: the search string
   * @param caseSensitive: is the search case sensitive?
   * @param backwards: should we search backwards?
   * @param wrapAround: should wrap the search?
   * @param wholeWord: should we search only for whole words?
   * @param searchInFrames: should we search in all frames?
   * @param showDialog: should we show the Find Dialog?
   */  
  boolean                   find();                
};