RE: ASP page, closing a window with JavaScript

by "Brett Errington" <brett(at)opensearch.com>

Date:	Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:32:06 +0800
To:	<hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
In-Reply-To:	max1
	todo: View Thread, Original

Hi

Yes you can however it can be a problem from memory because you have
lost the object with which to refer to the popup window when you change
pages. The way to get it back again is to run the same UploadStatus()
function with a blank URL. This should create a new object for the popup
window but not actually launch a new popup. If you have troubles let me
know because I'm not 100% sure if I have remembered the exact procedure
but it should work. 

Later,
Brett

"Oooooh... they have the Internet on computers now..." - Homer Simpson

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]
On Behalf Of Craig
Sent: Thursday, 22 August 2002 12:46 AM
To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Subject: ASP page, closing a window with JavaScript

Hi,

Can you close a window with JavaScript after the page changes (for lack
of a
better word)?

I have the ASP page below (watch the word-wrap). It simply opens a new
window
when the 'open' button is clicked, and tries to close it with the
'close'
button. The 'open' button is a submit type which submits the form.  I've
tried
to simplify the page and remove anything that's not related.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body>
<script language="javascript">
 <!--
 function UploadStatus() {
  var w = 480, h = 340;
  //if (document.all || document.layers) {
     w = screen.availWidth;
     h = screen.availHeight;
  //}
  var popW = 150, popH = 150;
  var leftPos = (w-popW)/2, topPos = (h-popH)/2;
  UploadStatus =
window.open('page.htm','UploadWindow','scrollbars=no,status=no,width=' +
popW
+ ',height=' + popH + ',top=' + topPos + ',left=' + leftPos);
 }
 function CloseUpload() {
  UploadStatus.close();
 }
 //-->
</script>
<%=request.form("open")%>
<form action="test.asp" method="post">
<input type="submit" value="open" name="open" onclick="UploadStatus();">
<input type="button" value="close" onclick="CloseUpload();">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Thanks,
Craig.

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