[Javascript] Challenge - Passing Object Refs to Other Windows

[Rodney Myers]

Why open a new window and close the old one if you could  open the new
page in the old window?

If you used a frameset you could store all the data as you went along.

Pretty sure I must be missing the point here....


Rodney

Peter Thompson wrote:
> 
> I have a problem that I've been struggling to
> figure out.
> 
> I'm developing a web-based document control
> system.  When the user clicks the Submit button,
> my boss wants me to then prompt for all the
> approval information.  I created a flowchart in
> Visio and this process turns out to be quite
> complicated.  It means opening a series of
> windows to walk the user through forms which
> prompt them for info - approval names, approval
> type (Parallel vs. Serial), etc.  There are about
> 6 windows that need to be opened in this sequence.
> 
> As I open the next window, I want to close the
> previous.  My challenge is: how to maintain a
> handle to the original document?  I need to pass
> a reference to this window from window to
> window.  That way, I can write data back to the
> original document during this process.
> 
> I just can't figure out how to do it.  If I
> create a method in window A that I call from
> window B and pass it the original window object,
> that would work - but how do I reference that
> method in window A?
> 
> Obviously, I have the window.opener property to
> get the previous window reference but once I
> close the first "dialog" box,
> window.opener.window.opener.... won't work
> because I've broken that chain back to the
> original document by closing one of the windows.
> 
> It would look horrible to have to open all these
> windows and leave them open until the last step.
> If I can't pass a window reference, then is there
> some way to hide an open window?  I think I can
> use DHTML to change it's z-order and put it
> behind the top window, is that correct?


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