Re: Best way to post "Starting Java" notification?

[Rick Potts]

Hi Ed,

You might try the following in nsJVMManager::StartupJVM(...)
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nsCOMPtr<nsIWindowWatcher> windowWatcher;

windowWatcher = do_GetService("@mozilla.org/embedcomp/window-watcher;1");
if (windowWatcher) {
  nsCOMPtr<nsIDOMWindow> domWindow;
 
  windowWatcher->GetActiveWindow(getter_AddRefs(domWindow));
  if (domWindow) {
    nsCOMPtr<nsIWebBrowserChrome> chrome;

    windowWatcher->GetChromeForWindow(domWindow, getter_AddRefs(chrome));
    if (chrome) {
      chrome->SetStatus(STATUS_SCRIPT, "Starting java...");
    }
  }
}

This is sort of like the old code that called XP_FindSomeContext(...)  :-)  Basically, it gets the nsIWebBrowserChrome from the active window...

-- rick

Ed Burns wrote:

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Hill) writes:

On 27 Aug 2001 18:48:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Burns) wrote:

1. What should the "starting plugin" message say?

2. How often should the "starting plugin" message appear?

For 1., I have two approaches, using I18N string bundles for all
language messages.

1.a: Say something like ("Starting Plugin for %s...", aMimeType)

1.b: Keep a hash table of common plugin descriptor strings, mapping
application/x-java-vm to the string "Java", then I could say "Starting
Java...".

How about combining a and b?
Starting Plugin for Java (application/x-java-vm)

Ok, I'm just going to say "Starting Plugin for %s", mimeType.  

I have this working on every visit to a plugin of any type.  Now, the
important corner case for me is when the user uses the menu to start the
java console.  This happens via javascript.

How can I invoke nsIWebBrowserChrome::SetStatus() from
xpfe\communicator\resources\content\tasksOverlay.js toJavaConsole()?

If it's impossible to call it from JavaScript, how can I call it from
nsJVMManager::ShowJavaConsole()?  At that point, I have no access to
things like a docShell.

Thanks,

Ed