XPCOM:nsIThreadManager: Difference between revisions

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   NS_METHOD NS_DispatchToMainThread(nsIRunnable *event,
                                     PRUint32 dispatchFlags = NS_DISPATCH_NORMAL);
+ &nbsp;
+ /**
+  * Process all pending events for the given thread before returning.  This
+  * method simply calls ProcessNextEvent on the thread while HasPendingEvents
+  * continues to return true and the time spent in NS_ProcessPendingEvents
+  * does not exceed the given timeout value.
+  *
+  * @param thread
+  *        The thread object for which to process pending events.  If null,
+  *        then events will be processed for the current thread.
+  * @param timeout
+  *        The maximum number of milliseconds to spend processing pending
+  *        events.  Events are not pre-empted to honor this timeout.  Rather,
+  *        the timeout value is simply used to determine whether or not to
+  *        process another event.  Pass PR_INTERVAL_NO_TIMEOUT to specify no
+  *        timeout.
+  */
+ NS_METHOD NS_ProcessPendingEvents(nsIThread *thread = nsnull,
+                                   PRIntervalTime timeout = PR_INTERVAL_NO_TIMEOUT);
 === nsCOMPtr helpers ===