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nsIAppStartup

IID:6799abed-4721-4f51-9304-d1a2ea1df5d5
Inherits From:nsISupports

This interface is implemented by the following components:

Constants

Attempt to quit if all windows are closed.
PRUint32 eConsiderQuit = 1
Try to close all windows, then quit if successful.
PRUint32 eAttemptQuit = 2
Quit, damnit!
PRUint32 eForceQuit = 3
Restart the application after quitting. The application will be restarted with the same profile and an empty command line.
PRUint32 eRestart = 16

Methods

void createHiddenWindow ( ) void destroyHiddenWindow ( ) void enterLastWindowClosingSurvivalArea ( ) void exitLastWindowClosingSurvivalArea ( ) void quit ( PRUint32 mode ) void run ( )

void createHiddenWindow ( )

Create the hidden window.

void destroyHiddenWindow ( )

Destroys the hidden window. This will have no effect if the hidden window has not yet been created.

void enterLastWindowClosingSurvivalArea ( )

There are situations where all application windows will be closed but we don't want to take this as a signal to quit the app. Bracket the code where the last window could close with these.

void exitLastWindowClosingSurvivalArea ( )

void quit ( PRUint32 mode )

Exit the event loop, and shut down the app.

Arguments:
mode: This parameter modifies how the app is shutdown, and it is constructed from the constants defined above.

void run ( )

Runs an application event loop: normally the main event pump which defines the lifetime of the application. If there are no windows open and no outstanding calls to enterLastWindowClosingSurvivalArea this method will exit immediately.

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