nsIFactory

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[edit] Summary

The nsIFactory interface allows for the creation of nsISupports derived classes without specifying a concrete class type.

#include "nsIFactory.h"
 
[scriptable, uuid=(00000001-0000-0000-c000-000000000046)]
interface nsIFactory : nsISupports { ... };

[edit] Methods

createInstance

Creates an instance of the class associated with this factory.

lockFactory

This method provides the client a way to keep the component in memory until it is finished with it.

[edit] Remarks

On WIN32 systems, nsIFactory is ABI-compatible with Microsoft COM's IClassFactory interface.

[edit] History

This interface was frozen for Mozilla 0.9.5. See bug 99144 for details.

[edit] See Also

nsISupports