Akim — Thu, 25 May 2000 17:50:00 +0000

Thank you very much !!!

With the OPENER object you've saved me!!
now I can access to the main window object easily.

Thank you Vincent.

Akim — Thu, 25 May 2000 13:51:00 +0000

thanks Vincent,

- But the thing is that the popup window which should reference the main one and not the inverse : There is not waiting time between the 2 instructions

myTreeWin = window.open(blah, blah....
popChoice = myTreeWin.popChoice;

- Is there a way to reference a window by for example Windows collection (if exists)?

- Or It's not a good practice to design my web app like that... And I should find another method??

Thank you for your help.

Vincent Puglia — Thu, 25 May 2000 04:54:00 +0000

Hi Akim,

Guess I'm confused, but...

1) you reference the main window with:
opener.varname;
opener.document.formname.elementname.value;
2) The two statements I made are not necessarily one after the other (I don't know your code, so I can't tell you where to put them.) They are examples.
3) re: "There is not waiting time between the 2 instructions"
You do not need waiting time. Windows do not automatically close. I'm presuming your TreeView is some sort of form that collects a value (popChoice). Once you have that value you can pass it back to the main window (if that is what you want to do) and focus the main window ("opener.focus()"), and then close the popUp (if that is what you wnat to do.)

Vinny

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Vincent Puglia — Wed, 24 May 2000 23:54:00 +0000

HI,

Try something like:

1) name your popUp
myTreeWin = window.open(blah, blah....
2) pass the selection back to the main window
popChoice = myTreeWin.popChoice; (this assumes you have declared the var in both windows.)
3) Once you have the var, close the popUp, then redirect the window.

myTreeWin.close();
location.href = popChoice;

Vinny

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