Thunderbird: getting messageManager for currently displayed

[susbox]

Hi friends,

In Firefox we use the gBrowser.selectedBrowser.messageManager to be capable of using the sendAsyncMessage function to communicate to a proper script.

How do we get a messageManager in Thunderbird? The window.messageManager supports only nsIMessageBroadcaster, so there's no way to send a message to specific script using sendAsyncManager.

My solution is:

var emailMessageManager = window.messageManager.getChildAt(0);
emailMessageManager.sendAsyncMessage(...)

I wonder if there is a proper way to obtain this messageManager?

[lithopsian]

This is a proper way. Is it always child zero that you want?

You can get individual browsers in Thunderbird. Do they not have a messageManager property defined? If not then something like this might work:

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aBrowser.QueryInterface(Ci.nsIFrameLoaderOwner).frameLoader.messageManager;

Sorry, I haven't done this in Thunderbird so I have no idea if that makes sense.

[susbox]

Thanks, lithopsian

You gave me a hint. That was really easy:

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var msgMgr = window.getBrowser().messageManager;

[lithopsian]

Ah, so the browser does have a messageManager property in Thunderbird. That's good.