void addChildWindow ( nsIXULWindow child )

Tell this window that it has picked up a child XUL window

Arguments:

child: the child window being added

void applyChromeFlags ( )

Back-door method to force application of chrome flags at a particular time. Do NOT call this unless you know what you're doing! In particular, calling this when this XUL window doesn't yet have a document in its docshell could cause problems.

void center ( nsIXULWindow relative , PRBool screen , PRBool alert )

Move the window to a centered position.

Arguments:

relative: the window relative to which the window is moved. See screen parameter for details. if null, the window is centered relative to the main screen.

screen: PR_TRUE to center the window relative to the screen containing relative. PR_FALSE to center it relative to relative itself.

alert: PR_TRUE to move the window to an alert position, generally centered horizontally and 1/3 down from the top.

nsIXULWindow createNewWindow ( PRInt32 chromeFlags , nsIAppShell appShell )

Create a new window.

Arguments:

chromeFlags: see nsIWebBrowserChrome

appShell

Returns:

the newly minted window

nsIDocShellTreeItem getContentShellById ( PRUnichar* ID )

The content shell specified by the supplied id.

Note that this is a docshell tree item and therefore can not be assured of what object it is. It could be an editor, a docshell, or a browser object. Or down the road any other object that supports being a DocShellTreeItem Query accordingly to determine the capabilities.

Arguments:

ID

void removeChildWindow ( nsIXULWindow child )

Tell this window that it has lost a child XUL window

Arguments:

child: the child window being removed

void showModal ( )

Shows the window as a modal window. That is, ensures that it is visible and runs a local event loop, exiting only once the window has been closed.