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2005-01-09 09:56:28 AM
Just thinking off the top of my head, why don't you call a function in
your parent window that does those three things.
window.opener.doAllThree(self)
and then in your parent
function doAllThree(objWindow) {
objWindow.close();
self.focus();
document.location.href = 'whatever.htm';
}
This is definitely just thinking. I'm not even sure that you can pass
the reference to the window object like that or not....hopefully it
will get you closer though.
Micky
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"DixieGal" <hhd@ospammers-honeyhousedesigns.com>wrote in message
rather than behind the scenes.
You can try adding your window.close() to it and see if this works for you
or not.
It was designed to bring the popup to the front if the visitor did not close
the window and went back to the originating page.
<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
function popup(mylink, windowname)
{
if (! window.focus)return true;
var href;
if (typeof(mylink) == 'string')
href=mylink;
else
href=mylink.href;
window.open(href, windowname,
'width=600,height=100,left=100,top=200,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes');
return false;
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
<A
HREF="popupbasic.html"
onClick="return popup(this, 'notes')">my popup</A>
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Richard wrote:
by user settings, - window.focus - would do that, but the method does
not do anything if it is never called.
resemble the desired outcome in any way.
undertaken by a lunatic as the code posted has no relationship to that
proposed design intention.
redundant.
window.focus method does not make sense unless the code guarded by the
test actually employs that method. Otherwise the implication is that
this is a test by which the environment's support for other features is
being inferred from the existence of an unrelated method. Testing of
that type is utterly unreliable.
Additionally, source code posted to Usenet should always be formally
indented (as described in the FAQ).
arguments of indeterminate type would result in code that was more
general in its employment, in reality the result is to promote a
disregard for variable type that is dangerous in a loosely typed
language.
The HTML employing this function will only ever pass an object reference
to this function so this branching is not needed, and neither is the
local variable - href -.
implemented in all environments is obviously misguided. The preceding
test on the wiindow.focus method logically should have been a test on
the widnow.open method, as that is the environment feature that is
actually used by the code.
window as the location in which that window opened may have no
relationship to the existing browser window.
the HREF of the A element. However, at this point it has not been
determined whether the window opening attempt has been successful. in
the event that the window opening attempt failed (or that the new window
will subsequently be closed by an external pop-up blocker) then this
code should return true so that the browser can fall-back to the HTML
link.
OP's question. If you have nothing better to offer you probably should
keep it to yourself.
Richard.
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