Helper.h revision 178020c30cf77bb39f38497c6efe5dd41193db56
/** @file
*
* VBox frontends: VBoxSDL (simple frontend based on SDL):
* Miscellaneous helpers header
*/
/*
* Copyright (C) 2006-2007 innotek GmbH
*
* This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), as
* available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software;
* you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
* General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
* in version 2 as it comes in the "COPYING" file of the VirtualBox OSE
* distribution. VirtualBox OSE is distributed in the hope that it will
* be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind.
*
* If you received this file as part of a commercial VirtualBox
* distribution, then only the terms of your commercial VirtualBox
* license agreement apply instead of the previous paragraph.
*/
#ifndef __H_HELPER
#define __H_HELPER
#if defined(VBOX_WITH_XPCOM) && !defined(__DARWIN__) && !defined(__OS2__)
/** Indicates that the XPCOM queue thread is needed for this platform. */
# define USE_XPCOM_QUEUE_THREAD 1
/**
* Creates the XPCOM event thread
*
* @returns VBOX status code
* @param eqFD XPCOM event queue file descriptor
*/
int startXPCOMEventQueueThread(int eqFD);
/*
* Notify the XPCOM thread that we consumed an XPCOM event
*/
void consumedXPCOMUserEvent(void);
/**
* Signal to the XPCOM even queue thread that it should select for more events.
*/
void signalXPCOMEventQueueThread(void);
/**
* Indicates to the XPCOM thread that it should terminate now.
*/
void terminateXPCOMQueueThread(void);
#endif /* defined(VBOX_WITH_XPCOM) && !defined(__DARWIN__) && !defined(__OS2__) */
#endif // __H_HELPER