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return value from popup window 1
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BillyRayPreachersSon
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You mean specifically when the user closes the popup, or at any time?
If on close, what would you want the value to be? True if they've closed it, false otherwise (although how could it ever be false? ;o)...
If it's not on close, then you could just use window.opener to call a function in the opening window, passing any values as parameters.
Hope this helps,
Dan
If on close, what would you want the value to be? True if they've closed it, false otherwise (although how could it ever be false? ;o)...
If it's not on close, then you could just use window.opener to call a function in the opening window, passing any values as parameters.
Hope this helps,
Dan
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I plan to have it return a value on close 
The popup window contains images. There's only one thing to do and that's select an image to be pasted into the form in the main document.
This works great with modalwatchimowidget in MSIE but I would like to emulate the effect in NN4/Mozilla aswell.
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I'm willing to trade custom scripts for... [see profile]
The popup window contains images. There's only one thing to do and that's select an image to be pasted into the form in the main document.
This works great with modalwatchimowidget in MSIE but I would like to emulate the effect in NN4/Mozilla aswell.
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I'm willing to trade custom scripts for... [see profile]
Mozilla has a method for modal / modeless dialogs...it's something like openDialog() (google for it)
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-jeff
try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); }
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-jeff
try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); }
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using a regular window, you can have a script attached to window.onunload to send your value back.
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try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); }
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-jeff
try { succeed(); } catch(E) { tryAgain(); }
BillyRayPreachersSon
Programmer
This works for me:
Main code:
popupCode.html:
Hope this helps,
Dan
Main code:
Code:
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
<!--
function openWin() { var winHandle = window.open('popupCode.html', '', ''); }
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body>
Click <a href="javascript:openWin();">here</a> to open a new window.
<br><br>
The last window you closed returned a value of: <span id="returnValue"> </span>
</body>
</html>popupCode.html:
Code:
<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript">
<!--
function sendValueToOpener()
{
window.opener.document.getElementById('returnValue').innerHTML = document.getElementById('valueField').value;
}
//-->
</script>
</head>
<body onunload="sendValueToOpener();">
<form>
Type in a value to get returned when this window closes: <input type="text" id="valueField">
</form>
<br><br>
Click <a href="javascript:window.close();">here</a> to close the window.
</body>
</html>Hope this helps,
Dan
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