Subj : Re: request for new feature in spidermonkey (or workaround)
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Shanti Rao
Date : Mon May 10 2004 11:08 am

Search this list's archives. If you use argv[-2], you can get the function 
name. That's what I used to implement ActiveX in SM.

Shanti

> Hi,
> 
> In the getter protoype, there is an extra parameter "tinyid" enabling the
> getter function to know which member of the object was requested.
> 
> I can't find any way to do the same things with methods (i'd like
> spidermonkey to call the c++ function associated with the js method with an
> extra parameter containing kind of tinyid identifying the called method.
> 
> The reason why i want to do that is that i want to make available to
> javascript some objects i don't know about at compile time (since i cant
> create the wrappers at compile time, i would need to create'em at runtime,
> but it doesn't seem to be possible in c++)
> 
> The member functions of the c++ objects are called via a message system, so
> with the extra parameter i'm asking for, i would be able to determine the
> message id to send, according to the tiny id provided by spidermonkey
> 
> is such an improvement possible in spidermonkey?
> 
> is there another way to do what i'd like to do without messing with the way
> spidermonkey works?
> 
> A possible workaround would be to generate a c++ file containing the
> wrappers at run time, to compile it into a dll, and to link it, but i dont
> want to go into such a trick for now:)
> 
> Thanks for the hints :)
> 
> 
>

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