Working with Multiple Versions of Interfaces
nscomptr<nsiaccessible> accnode; rv = refp->getaccessiblefor(node, getter_addrefs(accnode)); if(ns_failed(rv)){ return self; } void *wh = null; nscomptr<nsiaccessibledocument> accdocnode; accdocnode = do_queryinterface(accnode, &rv); if(ns_failed(rv)){ return self; } rv = accdocnode->getwindowhandle(&wh); if(ns_succeeded(rv)){ self = static_cast<hwnd>(wh); } return self; } this approach worked, as is, for versions as early as firefox 1.5.
...iar_iid_old, getter_addrefs(refp)); if (ns_failed(rv)){ return self; } nscomptr<nsiaccessible> accnode; rv = refp->getaccessiblefor(node, getter_addrefs(accnode)); if(ns_failed(rv)){ return self; } void *wh = null; nscomptr<nsiaccessibledocument> accdocnode; rv = accnode->queryinterface(iad_iid_old, getter_addrefs(accdocnode)); if(ns_failed(rv)){ return self; } rv = accdocnode->getwindowhandle(&wh); if(ns_succeeded(rv)){ self = static_cast<hwnd>(wh); } return self; } there is good news and bad news.
...getwindowhandle is the tenth method declared in the nsiaccessibledocument.h that firefox 2 was built with, but actually the eighth method in the sdk that i used to build my extension (and hence xpcom component).
..._old rv = accnode->queryinterface(ns_iaccessibledocument_iid_old, getter_addrefs(accdocnode)); if(ns_failed(rv)){ return self; } rv = accdocnode->getwindowhandle(&wh); if(ns_succeeded(rv)){ self = static_cast<hwnd>(wh); } return self; } ...