Category:XPCOM example code

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Articles explaining how to use certain XPCOM components.

• File IO covers nsIFile, nsILocalFile and related interfaces, including a few examples on nsIFileOutputStream, nsIFileInputStream, nsIScriptableInputStream, nsILineInputStream and more.
• Progress listeners explains how one should go about implementing nsIWebProgressListener interface.
• Running applications includes examples on nsILocalFile.launch() and nsIProcess.
• Using observers explains using nsIObserverService and nsIObserver.
• Dev : Using preferences covers nsIPrefService, nsIPrefBranch and nsIPrefBranchInternal/nsIPrefBranch2 and nsIPrefLocalizedString.
• nsIFilePicker is used to invoke standard Open File / Save File / Select folder dialogs.
• nsIWindowMediator - used to retrieve information about open windows
• Prompt service - nsIPromptService is used to open simple dialogs.

Below is the alphabetic listing of articles in this category, generated automatically.