Subj : Re: A plea to the Open Sourcerors
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@t-online.de>
Date : Wed Jan 21 2004 01:42 pm



Andrew Mayo wrote:


> In my case, all I want to do is have a JSSHELL with support for the
> intrinsic objects, particularly the File, Environment and System
> objects that supposedly exist, so I can deploy platform-independent
> scripts for various purposes that have a pretty lightweight framework
> (i.e runtime support) around them.

Download a Mozilla build as a .zip (or the compression format for your 
platform), it comes with some executable called
   xpcshell.exe
the XPCOM shell, then check
   http://www.xulplanet.com/references/xpcomref/creatingcomps.html
on how to create XPCOM components with JavaScript and check the 
reference docs at
   http://www.xulplanet.com/references/xpcomref/

In the shell you can try examples alike

js> var file = 
Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"].createInstance(Co
mponents.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
js> file
[xpconnect wrapped nsILocalFile]
js> file.initWithPath('C:\\Dokumente und Einstellungen')
js> file.isDirectory()
true


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	Martin Honnen
	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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