Subj : Re: Mozilla javascript context?
To   : Howard Chu
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Sun Jun 27 2004 09:02 pm

Howard Chu wrote:
> In older versions of Netscape (4.x, judging from available docs) there 
> was support for writing message filters in Javascript. This support was 
> removed subsequently. I'm interested in adding something like it back 
> in, but I don't really have any idea where to begin. The XPConnect docs 
> and JSAPI docs seem to be aimed at writing a standalone app that uses 
> JavaScript, how to setup the runtime etc. But obviously Mozilla has 
> already got a runtime and several contexts set up. Wouldn't it be smart 
> to just grab an existing context for this purpose? How would you do it?


You should ask over in n.p.m.mail-news too.

Make a fresh context for any JS mail filters; there's no compelling 
reason to reuse one that I can see, and a few unlikely but real hazards 
if you do.

To get the runtime used by XPConnect, use

     JSRuntime *rt = nsnull;
     nsCOMPtr<nsIJSRuntimeService> rtsvc = 
do_GetService("@mozilla.org/js/xpc/RuntimeService;1");
     if (rtsvc)
         rtsvc->GetRuntime(&rt);
     if (rt) {
         . . .
     }

/be

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