RetroZilla/toolkit/components/startup/public/nsIAppStartup.idl

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#include "nsISupports.idl"

interface nsICmdLineService;

[scriptable, uuid(e9b0f89b-0529-4d96-98a8-eb5b2b9a8383)]
interface nsIAppStartup : nsISupports
{
    /**
     * Create the hidden window.
     */
    void createHiddenWindow();

    /**
     * Runs an application event loop: normally the main event pump which
     * defines the lifetime of the application.
     *
     * @returnCode NS_SUCCESS_RESTART_APP
     *             This return code indicates that the application should be
     *             restarted because quit was called with the eRestart flag.
     */
    void run();

    /**
     * During application startup (and at other times!) we may temporarily
     * encounter a situation where all application windows will be closed
     * but we don't want to take this as a signal to quit the app. Bracket
     * the code where the last window could close with these.
     * (And at application startup, on platforms that don't normally quit
     * when the last window has closed, call Enter once, but not Exit)
     */
    void enterLastWindowClosingSurvivalArea();
    void exitLastWindowClosingSurvivalArea();

    /**
     * The following flags may be passed as the aMode parameter to the quit
     * method.  One and only one of the "Quit" flags must be specified.  The
     * eRestart flag may be bit-wise combined with one of the "Quit" flags to
     * cause the application to restart after it quits.
     */

    /**
     * Attempt to quit if all windows are closed.
     */
    const PRUint32 eConsiderQuit = 0x01;

    /**
     * Try to close all windows, then quit if successful.
     */
    const PRUint32 eAttemptQuit = 0x02;

    /**
     * Quit, damnit!
     */
    const PRUint32 eForceQuit = 0x03;

    /**
     * Restart the application after quitting.  The application will be
     * restarted with the same profile and an empty command line.
     */
    const PRUint32 eRestart = 0x10; 

    /**
     * Exit the event loop, and shut down the app.
     *
     * @param aMode
     *        This parameter modifies how the app is shutdown, and it is
     *        constructed from the constants defined above.
     */
    void quit(in PRUint32 aMode);
};

%{C++
/**
 * This success code may be returned by nsIAppStartup::Run to indicate that the
 * application should be restarted.  This condition corresponds to the case in
 * which nsIAppStartup::Quit was called with the eRestart flag.
 */
#define NS_SUCCESS_RESTART_APP \
    NS_ERROR_GENERATE_SUCCESS(NS_ERROR_MODULE_GENERAL, 1)
%}