Kinda New... Trying to refer to the "grandparent" window... 1

[JavaStripped]

I got into JS a few months ago, and all was going more or less well until I got to this point. I'm trying to send form textbox values back to the parent of the parent of the dialog box in IE5/6. The main web page has a dialog box (using

showModalDialog()

) that opens a second dialog box (using the same function) based on radio button value; this all works, but I can't get the form in the second dialog box to return its values to the main window. I tried nesting the

.opener

and

.parent

properties, but neither method seemed to work. The only other thing I can think of is to use DHTML methods and re-write the code of the single dialog box to play both roles, but I really don't want to go through that. Any assistance would be much appreciated.

 

[jemminger]

i don't think this is how the modalDialog is supposed to work...are you even able to send data back to the main window from the first dialog?

the way they are intended to work is to send a return value:

var returnValue = window.showModalDialog(sURL [, vArguments] [, sFeatures]);

using this method, the second dialog would return a value to the first, which could return it to the main window.

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if (!succeed) try();
-jeff

 

[JavaStripped]

I'll play with it some more using your suggestions. Thanks!

 

[JavaStripped]

I got this working last weekend, finally; sorry it took me so long to update this. For those who are interested, I used the following method:

1: Create

<input type = &quot;hidden&quot;>

elements in the calling window(s), except the window that initiated the call (which I am assuming has

<input type = &quot;text&quot;>

elements that are being filled by the incoming data).

2: Write script to "shuffle" the data back to the main window, one window at a time, just as you would for a normal dialog/parent interaction, using the

<input type = &quot;hidden&quot;>

elements.

Make sure you set the

window.opener

property at each level.

Thanks again to jemminger for making me think (long and hard, as it turned out) about what I was doing and what I was trying to do, and for helping me toward the solution. JavaStripped
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