[Javascript] Enumerating Other Window

[Peter Brunone]

Point of parliamentary procedure:  shouldn't 

window.opener.parent.document.framename

be

window.opener.parent.framename

?  I don't think you can get to the frameset through the document (although with IE 5.5 and above, you can treat iframes as CSS elements).

Cheers,

Peter

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "David Lovering" <dlovering at gazos.com>
Reply-To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:29:36 -0700

>It isn't quite that simple.
>
>When a program spawns a remote, the parent can do pretty much as you said,
>and use
>
>    windowname.document.formname.varname.attribute  -- OR --
>    windowname.document.framename.document.formname.varname.attribute
>// one or more frames
>
>to call up the bits in the child window(s).
>
>When the child program wants to access items in the parent window, it is a
>bit more complicated.
>
>    For a single form, no-frame parent:
>
>    window.opener.document.formname.varname.attribute
>
>    For multiframe, multiform parent(s):
>
>    window.opener.parent.document.formname.varname.attribute -- OR --
>
>window.opener.parent.document.framename.document.formname.varname.attribute
>
>  It gets REALLY tedious when you start embedding things inside <OBJECT>
>declarations, as it appears with
>MicroSloth's defective DOM structure you can only go from the parent to the
>child, and not backwards.  I won't even attempt to give you a path map for
>this -- it is too complicated to explain lucidly in a few sentences.
>
>  The reason the second 'document' declarations are needed inside pages with
>frames is that the frame acts as a document boundary, and to access the
>internals of one you must 'bust-through' the hard outer layer to get at the
>soft and chewy insides.
>
>  Hope this helps.
>
>  -- Dave Lovering
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Chris Tifer" <christ at saeweb.com>
>To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
>Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 7:49 AM
>Subject: Re: [Javascript] Enumerating Other Window
>
>
>> You just have to target which window you want to look through by
>> using the handler you used when opening the window.
>>
>> Chris Tifer
>> http://www.emailajoke.com
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <uplate at attbi.com>
>> To: <Javascript at LaTech.edu>
>> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 9:30 AM
>> Subject: [Javascript] Enumerating Other Window
>>
>>
>> > Greetings;
>> >
>> > using the window.open() method is it possible to open another URL and
>then
>> > enumerating through it's links or images arrays?
>> > Opening the window is no problem and even using a for loop to retrieve
>the
>> links
>> > on the current document is no probllem, but I can't seem to get the two
>> working
>> > together.
>> > Any ideas?
>> > Thanks.