nsIDOMJSWindow Interface Reference

import "nsIDOMJSWindow.idl";

Inheritance diagram for nsIDOMJSWindow:

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Collaboration diagram for nsIDOMJSWindow:

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List of all members.

Public Member Functions
void	dump (in DOMString str)
long	setTimeout ()
	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
long	setInterval ()
void	clearTimeout ()
	These methods take one optional argument that's the timer ID to clear.
void	clearInterval ()
void	setResizable (in boolean resizable)
	This method is here for backwards compatibility with 4.x only, its implementation is a no-op.
void	captureEvents (in long eventFlags)
void	releaseEvents (in long eventFlags)
void	routeEvent (in nsIDOMEvent evt)
void	enableExternalCapture ()
void	disableExternalCapture ()
DOMString	prompt ()
	The prompt method takes up to four arguments, the arguments are message, initial prompt value, title and a save password flag.
nsIDOMWindow	open ()
	These are the scriptable versions of nsIDOMWindowInternal::open() and nsIDOMWindowInternal::openDialog() that take 3 optional arguments.
nsIDOMWindow	openDialog ()
boolean	find ()
Public Attributes
readonly attribute nsIDOMWindow	frames
	window.frames in Netscape 4.x and IE is just a reference to the window itself (i.e.

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Member Function Documentation

void nsIDOMJSWindow::dump

(

in DOMString

str

)

long nsIDOMJSWindow::setTimeout

(

)

.. n) are passed to the callback function

long nsIDOMJSWindow::setInterval

(

)

void nsIDOMJSWindow::clearTimeout

(

)

Often in existing code these methods are passed undefined, which is a nop so we need to support that as well.

void nsIDOMJSWindow::clearInterval

(

)

void nsIDOMJSWindow::setResizable

(

in boolean

resizable

)

void nsIDOMJSWindow::captureEvents

(

in long

eventFlags

)

Deprecated:

These are old Netscape 4 methods. Do not use, the implementation is no-op.

void nsIDOMJSWindow::releaseEvents

(

in long

eventFlags

)

void nsIDOMJSWindow::routeEvent

(

in nsIDOMEvent

evt

)

void nsIDOMJSWindow::enableExternalCapture

(

)

void nsIDOMJSWindow::disableExternalCapture

(

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DOMString nsIDOMJSWindow::prompt

(

)

nsIDOMWindow nsIDOMJSWindow::open

(

)

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 nsIDOMJSWindow::openDialog

(

)

boolean nsIDOMJSWindow::find

(

)

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Member Data Documentation

readonly attribute nsIDOMWindow nsIDOMJSWindow::frames

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.

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The documentation for this interface was generated from the following file:

• dom/public/idl/base/nsIDOMJSWindow.idl