hmm, Obviously I don't know anything about these different methods of doing this, but the names don't give me a great deal of reassurance. If I want to pass a message from X to Y the requirements would be as follows:
X initiates message passing of "hello Y" X does not open Y. Y may or may not be opened. Y is not observing X or in any way waiting for a message from X, Y does have a generic message catcher (is this possible in Xpcom) that will accept a message from any window. Y makes sure that any message received is a string. it writes the value of message to its display area. IF X passes a message to Y and Y is not open it is possible to get back an error report of Y not open. There should otherwise not be any feedback from Y to X unless Y initiates passing a message to X directly. Y does not call messages from X. Both extensions are implemented as toolbars. The message is sent from X by clicking button in X. Any links to the parts of documentation to read for this, an example project would be much appreciated. Cheers, Bryan Rasmussen On Jan 23, 8:31 am, "timeless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 20, 8:48 pm, "pantagruel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would like to get information on message passing with xpcom. To get > > started I would like to be able to pass a hello world from one window > > in firefox or mozilla to another window in firefox or mozilla. It is > > assumed that these windows are extension windows.there are dozens of ways > > to do this. > > you can use the observer service, you could use the window watcher, if > your extensions are services, you could get them and call methods, if > one window opened the other, then both normally have DOM handles to > eachother. > > this question isn't really useful. _______________________________________________ dev-tech-xpcom mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-xpcom
