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 This is the interface to the embeddable prompt service; the service that
 implements nsIPrompt.  Its interface is designed to be just nsIPrompt, each
 method modified to take a parent window parameter.

 Accesskeys can be attached to buttons and checkboxes by inserting an &
 before the accesskey character in the checkbox message or button title.  For
 a real &, use && instead.  (A "button title" generally refers to the text
 label of a button.)

 One note: in all cases, the parent window parameter can be null.  However,
 these windows are all intended to have parents.  So when no parent is
 specified, the implementation should try hard to find a suitable foster
 parent.

 Implementations are free to choose how they present the various button
 types.  For example, while prompts that give the user a choice between OK
 and Cancel are required to return a boolean value indicating whether or not
 the user accepted the prompt (pressed OK) or rejected the prompt (pressed
 Cancel), the implementation of this interface could very well speak the
 prompt to the user instead of rendering any visual user-interface.  The
 standard button types are merely idioms used to convey the nature of the
 choice the user is to make.

 Because implementations of this interface may loosely interpret the various
 button types, it is advised that text messages passed to these prompts do
 not refer to the button types by name.  For example, it is inadvisable to
 tell the user to "Press OK to proceed."  Instead, such a prompt might be
 rewritten to ask the user: "Would you like to proceed?"

 @status FROZEN
[scriptable, uuid(1630c61a-325e-49ca-8759-a31b16c47aa5)]
interface nsIPromptService : nsISupports

Constants

 Button Flags

 The following flags are combined to form the aButtonFlags parameter passed
 to confirmEx.  See confirmEx for more information on how the flags may be
 combined.


 Button Position Flags
const unsigned long BUTTON_POS_0 = 1

        
const unsigned long BUTTON_POS_1 = 256

        
const unsigned long BUTTON_POS_2 = 65536
 Button Title Flags (used to set the labels of buttons in the prompt)
const unsigned long BUTTON_TITLE_OK = 1

        
const unsigned long BUTTON_TITLE_CANCEL = 2

        
const unsigned long BUTTON_TITLE_YES = 3

        
const unsigned long BUTTON_TITLE_NO = 4

        
const unsigned long BUTTON_TITLE_SAVE = 5

        
const unsigned long BUTTON_TITLE_DONT_SAVE = 6

        
const unsigned long BUTTON_TITLE_REVERT = 7

        
const unsigned long BUTTON_TITLE_IS_STRING = 127
 Button Default Flags (used to select which button is the default one)
const unsigned long BUTTON_POS_0_DEFAULT = 0

        
const unsigned long BUTTON_POS_1_DEFAULT = 16777216

        
const unsigned long BUTTON_POS_2_DEFAULT = 33554432
 Causes the buttons to be initially disabled.  They are enabled after a
 timeout expires.  The implementation may interpret this loosely as the
 intent is to ensure that the user does not click through a security dialog
 too quickly.  Strictly speaking, the implementation could choose to ignore
 this flag.
const unsigned long BUTTON_DELAY_ENABLE = 67108864
 Selects the standard set of OK/Cancel buttons.
const unsigned long STD_OK_CANCEL_BUTTONS = 513
 Selects the standard set of Yes/No buttons.
const unsigned long STD_YES_NO_BUTTONS = 1027

Methods

 Puts up an alert dialog with an OK button.

 @param aParent
        The parent window or null.
 @param aDialogTitle
        Text to appear in the title of the dialog.
 @param aText
        Text to appear in the body of the dialog.
void alert(in nsIDOMWindow aParent, in wstring aDialogTitle, in wstring aText)
 Puts up an alert dialog with an OK button and a labeled checkbox.

 @param aParent
        The parent window or null.
 @param aDialogTitle
        Text to appear in the title of the dialog.
 @param aText
        Text to appear in the body of the dialog.
 @param aCheckMsg
        Text to appear with the checkbox.
 @param aCheckState
        Contains the initial checked state of the checkbox when this method
        is called and the final checked state after this method returns.
void alertCheck(in nsIDOMWindow aParent, in wstring aDialogTitle, in wstring aText, in wstring aCheckMsg, inout boolean aCheckState)
 Puts up a dialog with OK and Cancel buttons.

 @param aParent
        The parent window or null.
 @param aDialogTitle
        Text to appear in the title of the dialog.
 @param aText
        Text to appear in the body of the dialog.

 @return true for OK, false for Cancel
boolean confirm(in nsIDOMWindow aParent, in wstring aDialogTitle, in wstring aText)
 Puts up a dialog with OK and Cancel buttons and a labeled checkbox.

 @param aParent
        The parent window or null.
 @param aDialogTitle
        Text to appear in the title of the dialog.
 @param aText
        Text to appear in the body of the dialog.
 @param aCheckMsg
        Text to appear with the checkbox.
 @param aCheckState
        Contains the initial checked state of the checkbox when this method
        is called and the final checked state after this method returns.

 @return true for OK, false for Cancel
boolean confirmCheck(in nsIDOMWindow aParent, in wstring aDialogTitle, in wstring aText, in wstring aCheckMsg, inout boolean aCheckState)
 Puts up a dialog with up to 3 buttons and an optional, labeled checkbox.

 @param aParent
        The parent window or null.
 @param aDialogTitle
        Text to appear in the title of the dialog.
 @param aText
        Text to appear in the body of the dialog.
 @param aButtonFlags
        A combination of Button Flags.
 @param aButton0Title
        Used when button 0 uses TITLE_IS_STRING
 @param aButton1Title
        Used when button 1 uses TITLE_IS_STRING
 @param aButton2Title
        Used when button 2 uses TITLE_IS_STRING
 @param aCheckMsg
        Text to appear with the checkbox.  Null if no checkbox.
 @param aCheckState    
        Contains the initial checked state of the checkbox when this method
        is called and the final checked state after this method returns.

 @return index of the button pressed.

 Buttons are numbered 0 - 2. The implementation can decide whether the
 sequence goes from right to left or left to right.  Button 0 is the
 default button unless one of the Button Default Flags is specified.

 A button may use a predefined title, specified by one of the Button Title
 Flags values.  Each title value can be multiplied by a position value to
 assign the title to a particular button.  If BUTTON_TITLE_IS_STRING is
 used for a button, the string parameter for that button will be used.  If
 the value for a button position is zero, the button will not be shown.

 In general, aButtonFlags is constructed per the following example:

   aButtonFlags = (BUTTON_POS_0) * (BUTTON_TITLE_AAA) +
                  (BUTTON_POS_1) * (BUTTON_TITLE_BBB) +
                   BUTTON_POS_1_DEFAULT;

 where "AAA" and "BBB" correspond to one of the button titles.
PRInt32 confirmEx(in nsIDOMWindow aParent, in wstring aDialogTitle, in wstring aText, in unsigned long aButtonFlags, in wstring aButton0Title, in wstring aButton1Title, in wstring aButton2Title, in wstring aCheckMsg, inout boolean aCheckState)
 Puts up a dialog with an edit field and an optional, labeled checkbox.

 @param aParent
        The parent window or null.
 @param aDialogTitle
        Text to appear in the title of the dialog.
 @param aText
        Text to appear in the body of the dialog.
 @param aValue
        Contains the default value for the dialog field when this method
        is called (null value is ok).  Upon return, if the user pressed
        OK, then this parameter contains a newly allocated string value.
        Otherwise, the parameter's value is unmodified.
 @param aCheckMsg
        Text to appear with the checkbox.  If null, check box will not be shown.
 @param aCheckState
        Contains the initial checked state of the checkbox when this method
        is called and the final checked state after this method returns.

 @return true for OK, false for Cancel.
boolean prompt(in nsIDOMWindow aParent, in wstring aDialogTitle, in wstring aText, inout wstring aValue, in wstring aCheckMsg, inout boolean aCheckState)
 Puts up a dialog with a password field and an optional, labeled checkbox.

 @param aParent
        The parent window or null.
 @param aDialogTitle
        Text to appear in the title of the dialog.
 @param aText
        Text to appear in the body of the dialog.
 @param aPassword
        Contains the default value for the password field when this method
        is called (null value is ok).  Upon return, if the user pressed OK,
        then this parameter contains a newly allocated string value.
        Otherwise, the parameter's value is unmodified.
 @param aCheckMsg
        Text to appear with the checkbox.  If null, check box will not be shown.
 @param aCheckState
        Contains the initial checked state of the checkbox when this method
        is called and the final checked state after this method returns.

 @return true for OK, false for Cancel.
boolean promptPassword(in nsIDOMWindow aParent, in wstring aDialogTitle, in wstring aText, inout wstring aPassword, in wstring aCheckMsg, inout boolean aCheckState)
 Puts up a dialog with an edit field, a password field, and an optional,
 labeled checkbox.

 @param aParent
        The parent window or null.
 @param aDialogTitle
        Text to appear in the title of the dialog.
 @param aText
        Text to appear in the body of the dialog.
 @param aUsername
        Contains the default value for the username field when this method
        is called (null value is ok).  Upon return, if the user pressed OK,
        then this parameter contains a newly allocated string value.
        Otherwise, the parameter's value is unmodified.
 @param aPassword
        Contains the default value for the password field when this method
        is called (null value is ok).  Upon return, if the user pressed OK,
        then this parameter contains a newly allocated string value.
        Otherwise, the parameter's value is unmodified.
 @param aCheckMsg
        Text to appear with the checkbox.  If null, check box will not be shown.
 @param aCheckState
        Contains the initial checked state of the checkbox when this method
        is called and the final checked state after this method returns.

 @return true for OK, false for Cancel.
boolean promptUsernameAndPassword(in nsIDOMWindow aParent, in wstring aDialogTitle, in wstring aText, inout wstring aUsername, inout wstring aPassword, in wstring aCheckMsg, inout boolean aCheckState)
 Puts up a dialog box which has a list box of strings from which the user
 may make a single selection.

 @param aParent
        The parent window or null.
 @param aDialogTitle
        Text to appear in the title of the dialog.
 @param aText
        Text to appear in the body of the dialog.
 @param aCount
        The length of the aSelectList array parameter.
 @param aSelectList
        The list of strings to display.
 @param aOutSelection
        Contains the index of the selected item in the list when this
        method returns true.

 @return true for OK, false for Cancel.
boolean select(in nsIDOMWindow aParent, in wstring aDialogTitle, in wstring aText, in PRUint32 aCount, [array, size_is(aCount)] in wstring aSelectList, out long aOutSelection)