palemoon-dev/platform/embedding/components/find/nsIFind.idl

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#include "nsISupports.idl"

interface nsIDOMRange;
interface nsIWordBreaker;

[scriptable, uuid(40aba110-2a56-4678-be90-e2c17a9ae7d7)]
interface nsIFind : nsISupports
{
  attribute boolean findBackwards;
  attribute boolean caseSensitive;
  attribute boolean entireWord;

  /**
   * Find some text in the current context. The implementation is
   * responsible for performing the find and highlighting the text.
   *
   * @param aPatText     The text to search for.
   * @param aSearchRange A Range specifying domain of search.
   * @param aStartPoint  A Range specifying search start point.
   *                     If not collapsed, we'll start from
   *                     end (forward) or start (backward).
   * @param aEndPoint    A Range specifying search end point.
   *                     If not collapsed, we'll end at
   *                     end (forward) or start (backward).
   * @retval             A range spanning the match that was found (or null).
   */
  nsIDOMRange Find(in AString aPatText, in nsIDOMRange aSearchRange,
                   in nsIDOMRange aStartPoint, in nsIDOMRange aEndPoint);
};