37 lines
1.5 KiB
Plaintext
37 lines
1.5 KiB
Plaintext
/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
|
|
/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
|
|
* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
|
|
* file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
|
|
|
|
#include "nsISupports.idl"
|
|
|
|
interface nsIRunnable;
|
|
|
|
/**
|
|
* This service allows access to the current thread's Chromium MessageLoop
|
|
* instance, with some extra sugar added. If you're calling from C++, it may
|
|
* or may not make sense for you to use this interface. If you're calling from
|
|
* JS, you don't have a choice!
|
|
*
|
|
* Right now, you can only call PostIdleTask(), but nothing is stopping you
|
|
* from adding other methods.
|
|
*
|
|
* nsIMessageLoop's contractid is "@mozilla.org/message-loop;1".
|
|
*/
|
|
[scriptable, uuid(3E8C58E8-E52C-43E0-8E66-669CA788FF5F)]
|
|
interface nsIMessageLoop : nsISupports
|
|
{
|
|
/**
|
|
* Posts a task to be run when this thread's message loop is idle, or after
|
|
* ensureRunsAfterMS milliseconds have elapsed. (That is, the task is
|
|
* guaranteed to run /eventually/.)
|
|
*
|
|
* Note that if the event loop is busy, we will hold a reference to the task
|
|
* until ensureRunsAfterMS milliseconds have elapsed. Be careful when
|
|
* specifying long timeouts and tasks which hold references to windows or
|
|
* other large objects, because you can leak memory in a difficult-to-detect
|
|
* way!
|
|
*/
|
|
void postIdleTask(in nsIRunnable task, in uint32_t ensureRunsAfterMS);
|
|
};
|