[Javascript] Thanks & follow-up, was: Handling child windowvisibility...

Thu Aug 12 10:33:17 CDT 2004

Since you're creating the window with form submission, I don't think there's
anyway you can reference the resultant window in javascript in the original
page.  I'd love to be corrected, but to the best of my understanding it
won't be possible.

Your second suggestion might be feasible though: you could have an onClick
event on the submit button which ran a routine which deactivated the button:

<!-- start -->
<input type="submit" name="mySubmitButton" value="Clicky"
onClick="fDisableButton(this)">
<script language="javascript">
    function fDisableButton (oButton) {
        // disable the button however you want here ... I'll hide it for
now.
        oButton.style.display = 'none';
    }
</script>
<!-- end -->

However, you'd then be left with the question of how to make the button
active again...

I'm not sure I'd approach the whole thing with a page submission in the
first place: it'd be easier to handle if the window was opened via
javascript - you then have a scripting relationship between parent and child
windows and can manipulate one from the other as you see fit...

Not much help I'm afraid ...

Matt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shawn Milo" <ShawnMilo at runbox.com>
To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Javascript] Thanks & follow-up, was: Handling child
windowvisibility...

Paul, Mat, and Hakan,

Thanks for the advice.  The following did the trick:
<body onload="window.focus();">

I do not want to force the window to remain on top,
so I will not be scripting the onblur event.

Follow-up question:  Although this works, it does not
bring up the window until the page has loaded (obviously),
and since the page is running some ASP code and reading
from a database, it could take a few seconds.  In that time,
the person could click the button again, thus re-starting
the entire process.

So is there a way to, from JavaScript included on the main
page, bring that window to the fore? If not, I suppose that
I could always disable the button temporarily, and replace
the button value with 'Please Wait'.  Ideas?

T Herman,

That is a very useful-looking script.  However, I can't
use it here, because the new window is being opened
by a form submission, not by a JavaScript event.

Thank, all!

Shawn

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