[thelist] [re;] JS window.returnValue [solved]
James Aylard
evolt at pixelwright.com
Tue Sep 9 10:00:43 CDT 2003
Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:
> Gah, 5 minutes after... found the solution, at the following page if
> you are interested:
>
> http://cita.rehab.uiuc.edu/scripting/newwindow/alert/page1.html
On the IE-HTML list sometime back, contributor Joe Fawcett provided
another very
interesting (and, to my knowledge, otherwise explicitly documented) way to
pass data into and out of modal dialogs [1]. Essentially, you assign the
"opener" [2] as the argument passed into the modal dialog box. This allows
the modal dialog to directly update a variable in the "opener" document
regardless of whether it also sets a returnValue.
Briefly:
"Opener" pseudo-code:
---------------------
<html>
<head>
<title>Parent document</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
var vTestData, vRv ;
vTestData = "I am a rock" ;
function fnShowModal()
{
vRv = window.showModalDialog("modalWindow.html", window.self, "") ;
}
function fnShowValue()
{
alert("vTestData = [" + vTestData + "]\nvRv = [" + vRv + "]") ;
}
fnShowValue() ; // The original value and an undefined return value
fnShowModal() ; // Pop the modal
fnShowValue() ; // The modified value and the return value
</script>
</head>
</html>
Modal pseudo-code:
------------------
<html>
<head>
<title>Modal Dialog</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
dialogArguments.vTestData += ", I am an island" ;
window.returnValue = "I can be something else" ; // optional
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="button" onclick="window.close();">
</body>
</html>
Might be worth a look.
1.
http://microsoft.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-msn.exe?A2=ind0207b&L=ie-html&T=0
&F=&I=-3&S=&P=1957
2. I put the word "opener" in quotes because modal dialogs don't actually
have a value for the opener property.
James Aylard
evolt at pixelwright.com
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