Integration with the “Metro”/”Modern” UI environment in Windows 8.
Note: browser/metro/base/content/browser.js contains a stub
implementation of this interface for non-Windows systems, for testing and
development purposes only.
Show the settings flyout
Launches the specified application with the specified arguments and
switches to Desktop mode if in metro mode.
Displays a native Windows 8 toast.
| aAppId | Application ID for current application. If using Metro mode, it can be null string. |
Secondary tiles are a Windows 8 specific feature for pinning new tiles
to the start screen. Tiles can later be activated whether the browser is
already opened or not.
Pins a new tile to the Windows 8 start screen.
| aTileID | An ID which can later be used to remove the tile ID must only contain valid filesystem characters |
| aShortName | A short name for the tile |
| aDiplayName | The name that will be displayed on the tile |
| aActivationArgs | The arguments to pass to the browser upon activation of the tile |
| aTileImage | An image for the normal tile view |
| aSmallTileImage | An image for the small tile view |
Unpins a tile from the Windows 8 start screen.
| aTileID | An existing ID which was previously pinned ID must only contain valid filesystem characters |
Determines if a tile is pinned to the Windows 8 start screen.
| aTileID | An ID which may have been pinned with pinTileAsync ID must only contain valid filesystem characters |
| true if the tile is pinned |
Settings panel links. addSettingsPanelEntry adds an entry to
the settings flyout panel that the user can invoke.
| aChromePanelId | panel id invoked via nsIBrowserDOMWindow's ShowPanel api. Example: 'prefs-container' |
| a unique identifier that will be passed as "data" in the "metro-settings-entry-selected" notification when the entry is clicked |
Change the value of the “switch primary and secondary buttons” preference.
See the Windows SwapMouseButton API docs for details.
Included here for use in automated tests (see bug 839460).
| aSwap | true to enable the preference, false to disable it. |
| original value of the preference. |
Determine if the current device has the hardware capabilities to run
in metro mode.
Determine if the current browser is running in the metro immersive
environment.
Determine the activation URI
Determine the previous execution state. The possible values of this
attribute are exactly those values in the
Windows::ApplicationModel::Activation enumeration.
Helper for our restart logic up in the about flyout. We set this
right before we restart for an update so that MetroAppShell can
communicate this to the ceh.
Soft keyboard attributes. Used in unison with shown/hidden observer
events sent via FrameworkView.
keyboardVisible - returns true if the soft keyboard is currently
displayed, false otherwise.
keyboardX, keyboardY, keyboardWidth, keyboardHeight - occlude rect
of the keyboard when displayed in device independent pixels.