On 1/16/07, Eric H. Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I use the following code to notify observers of custom events. I can pass
> native types like booleans and strings to observers using nsISsupports***
> wrappers, but how can I pass an instance of my own JS XPCOM component
> (non-service) to observers?
>
> var gObsSvc =
> CC["@mozilla.org/observer-service;1"].getService(CI.nsIObserverService);
> gBroadcast = function(subj, topic, data) {
> var bool =
> CC["@mozilla.org/supports-PRBool;1"].createInstance(CI.nsISupportsPRBool);
> bool.data = subj;
> var d;
> if (typeof(data) == "string") {
> var d =
> CC["@mozilla.org/supports-string;1"].createInstance(CI.nsISupportsString);
> d.data = data;
> }
> else {
> // d is an instance of my custom JS XPCOM component. How to wrap it?
> }
> gObsSvc.notifyObservers(bool, topic, d);
> };
>
> // code which calls the above:
> gBroadcast(true, "my-custom-event1", "foobar");
> gBroadcast(false, "my-custom-event2", myCustomJSXPCOMobject);
>
Why are you passing components as a string data parameter?
You can pass the component as an nsISupports parameter ("subject") easily.
Nickolay
>
> Thanks for any suggestions,
> Eric
>
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