419603 - [ActiveX] Implement window.external

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: ActiveX Wrapper, enhancement)

Description

[Norman Rasmussen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-ZA; rv:1.8.1.12; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12
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IDocHostUIHandler.GetExternal returns an IDispatch object which should be available to the js environment as window.external.

Reproducible: Always




Related to bug 340277.  I think keeping patches that implement unrelated functionality in separate bugs is better than trying to shove them all in one bug.

Comment 1

[Norman Rasmussen]

Attachment: external_v1.patch

Comment 2

[Norman Rasmussen]

The xpconnect REQUIRES in the Makefile comes from when I was trying to use xpconnect to wrap the IDispatch, but it never worked successfully.  (It wouldn't get/set/call properties).  Idealy xpconnect should be fixed up to do what is required, and then the local wrappers can be dropped.

Current status:
Get property: works,
Set property: not yet done,
Call method: works for methods that take no parameters.

Parking the patch here so that it doesn't get lost in my dev tree.

Comment 3

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

The ActiveX embedding API was removed in bug 662023 and friends, making this INVALID.

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