846679 - export WinUtils

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Description

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Attachment: patch

I keep running into situations where I want to use these routines, particularly the cached version info, but can't.

Comment 1

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

Where do you need WinUtils?

Comment 2

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

good place for version info use:

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/gfx/thebes/gfxWindowsPlatform.cpp#434

useful call that could be moved into WinUtils:

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/gfx/thebes/gfxWindowsPlatform.cpp#396

the other day I was working on an area of the crash reporter code that ran before xpcom startup, and I wanted to use a registry function.

Comment 3

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

Comment on attachment 719874 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

Ah, gfx. It makes sense!

Comment 4

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/33511e4407a0

Comment 5

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/33511e4407a0