[Javascript] Can a reloaded parent window close its child?

[Paul Novitski]

And to further complicate this sad affair, the orphaned child still 
recognizes its parent, even though the cruel parent has forgotten its child.

The child can interact with the parent [clone] even after it's reloaded:
         window.opener.document.ParentForm.ParentTextbox.value = "Mommy!";
and can even reload the parent with:
         window.opener.document.location.reload();
and still not lose the connection.

If anyone has an idea how to bypass this problem of the amnesiac parent, 
I'd be grateful.

Paul


At 06:27 AM 12/27/2003, BEKIM BACAJ wrote:
>Obvious and not obvious sametime
>All the pages wiewed on browser win are to be considered as 'clones' of 
>the original generator.
>So if one clone has a child, the other is not awear of it. Since a 
>reloaded page is just another clone, the last child does not belong to 
>him, because he is younger than this child and doesn't have any knowlledge 
>of existance of his other clones nor his other relatives. Even if this 
>child can be legaly proclaimed as a child of reloaded window, it isn't, a 
>paradox that awaits our civilisation on horizon...
>
>>From: Paul Novitski <javascriptlist at dandemutande.org>
>>Reply-To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
>>To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
>>Subject: [Javascript] Can a reloaded parent window close its child?
>>Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:41:01 -0800
>>
>>I want my browser window to create a child window that says "Please wait" 
>>while the parent window is reloading.  Unfortunately, when the parent has 
>>reloaded, it appears to have forgotten the identity of the child:
>>
>>body onLoad="jsCloseChild();" onUnLoad="jsCreateChild();"
>>
>>The close function fails when I use either of these two techniques for 
>>creating and naming the child:
>>
>>=====================================
>>function jsCreateChild(){
>>         window.open('PleaseWaitChild.html', 'MyChild', '');
>>}
>>function jsCloseChild(){
>>         MyChild.close;
>>}
>>=====================================
>>var MyChild;
>>function jsCreateChild(){
>>         MyChild=window.open('PleaseWaitChild.html', 'WindowName', '');
>>}
>>function jsCloseChild(){
>>         MyChild.close;
>>}
>>=====================================
>>Can anyone provide a solution?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Paul
>>
>>
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