gecko/modules/plugin/base/public/nsIPluginInstance.idl

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/**
* nsIPluginInstance
*
* @status DEPRECATED
*
* Originally published XPCOM Plugin API is now deprecated
* Developers are welcome to use NPAPI, please refer to:
* http://mozilla.org/projects/plugins/
*/
#include "nsISupports.idl"
#include "nsIPluginStreamListener.idl"
%{C++
#include "nsplugindefs.h"
%}
interface nsIPluginInstancePeer;
/**
* The nsIPluginInstance interface is the minimum interface plugin developers
* need to support in order to implement a plugin instance. The plugin manager
* may QueryInterface for more specific types, e.g. nsILiveConnectPluginInstance.
*
* (Corresponds to NPP object.)
*
* The old NPP_Destroy call has been factored into two plugin instance
* methods:
*
* Stop -- called when the plugin instance is to be stopped (e.g. by
* displaying another plugin manager window, causing the page containing
* the plugin to become removed from the display).
*
* Destroy -- called once, before the plugin instance peer is to be
* destroyed. This method is used to destroy the plugin instance.
*/
[uuid(ebe00f40-0199-11d2-815b-006008119d7a)]
interface nsIPluginInstance : nsISupports
{
/**
* Initializes a newly created plugin instance, passing to it the
* plugin instance peer which it should use for all communication
* back to the browser.
*
* @param aPeer - the corresponding plugin instance peer
* @result - NS_OK if this operation was successful
*/
void initialize(in nsIPluginInstancePeer aPeer);
/**
* Returns a reference back to the plugin instance peer. This method is
* used whenever the browser needs to obtain the peer back from a plugin
* instance. The implementation of this method should be sure to increment
* the reference count on the peer by calling AddRef.
*
* @param aPeer - the resulting plugin instance peer
* @result - NS_OK if this operation was successful
*/
readonly attribute nsIPluginInstancePeer peer;
/**
* Called to instruct the plugin instance to start. This will be
* called after the plugin is first created and initialized, and
* may be called after the plugin is stopped (via the Stop method)
* if the plugin instance is returned to in the browser window's
* history.
*
* @result - NS_OK if this operation was successful
*/
void start();
/**
* Called to instruct the plugin instance to stop, thereby
* suspending its state. This method will be called whenever the
* browser window goes on to display another page and the page
* containing the plugin goes into the window's history list.
*
* @result - NS_OK if this operation was successful
*/
void stop();
/**
* Called to instruct the plugin instance to destroy itself. This
* is called when it become no longer possible to return to the
* plugin instance, either because the browser window's history
* list of pages is being trimmed, or because the window
* containing this page in the history is being closed.
*
* @result - NS_OK if this operation was successful
*/
void destroy();
/**
* Called when the window containing the plugin instance changes.
*
* (Corresponds to NPP_SetWindow.)
*
* @param aWindow - the plugin window structure
* @result - NS_OK if this operation was successful
*/
void setWindow(in nsPluginWindowPtr aWindow);
/**
* Called to tell the plugin that the initial src/data stream is
* ready. Expects the plugin to return a nsIPluginStreamListener.
*
* (Corresponds to NPP_NewStream.)
*
* @param aListener - listener the browser will use to give the plugin the data
* @result - NS_OK if this operation was successful
*/
void newStream(out nsIPluginStreamListener aListener);
/**
* Called to instruct the plugin instance to print itself to a printer.
*
* (Corresponds to NPP_Print.)
*
* @param aPlatformPrint - platform-specific printing information
* @result - NS_OK if this operation was successful
*/
void print(in nsPluginPrintPtr aPlatformPrint);
/**
* Returns the value of a variable associated with the plugin instance.
*
* @param aVariable - the plugin instance variable to get
* @param aValue - the address of where to store the resulting value
* @result - NS_OK if this operation was successful
*/
void getValue(in nsPluginInstanceVariable aVariable, in voidPtr aValue);
/**
* Handles an event. An nsIEventHandler can also get registered with with
* nsIPluginManager2::RegisterWindow and will be called whenever an event
* comes in for that window.
*
* Note that for Unix and Mac the nsPluginEvent structure is different
* from the old NPEvent structure -- it's no longer the native event
* record, but is instead a struct. This was done for future extensibility,
* and so that the Mac could receive the window argument too. For Windows
* and OS2, it's always been a struct, so there's no change for them.
*
* (Corresponds to NPP_HandleEvent.)
*
* @param aEvent - the event to be handled
* @param aHandled - set to PR_TRUE if event was handled
* @result - NS_OK if this operation was successful
*/
void handleEvent(in nsPluginEventPtr aEvent, out boolean aHandled);
};