[Project_owners] Q: how to access calling XUL window from XPCOM component code?

[Malte Kraus]

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Godmar Back schrieb:
> Also, can name.caller be replaced with arguments.caller? (I find
> conflicting information in MDC - it says that arguments.caller is no
> longer supported for security reasons, though this wouldn't make sense
> for XUL code.)
You can use arguments.callee.caller, I think.


> Is it possible to walk the stack in some way in case the function is
> called indirectly along a chain of calls, as in
> 'name.caller.caller....' until a __parent__ property is found?
Sure:
var caller = arguments.callee.caller;
var globalObject = {}.__parent__;
while(caller.__parent__ != globalObject) {
  caller = caller.caller;
}

With recursive functions, this loop will never stop though.
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