Repost of:[Javascript] Adding an item to a select list fromanotherwindow

[David Lovering]

Interesting.  I'll have to think about this...

-- Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Pollard" <rpollard at apple.com>
To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 9:16 AM
Subject: Re: Repost of:[Javascript] Adding an item to a select list
fromanotherwindow


> Hey David,
>
> This is what I am doing:
>
> Select from list: Add a comma delimited list to the new line to this
> list:
>
> A <--select this one A,B,D
> B <--select this one
> C
> D <--and this one
> E
>
> Select the options again and my newly added element in the list in the
> source window looks like:
> A A,B,D
> B <--select this one B,D
> C
> D <--and this one
> E
>
> I'll allow the user to continue making these selections until they have
> all the patterns they need.  Each comma delimited list gets assigned to
> a new element in the source list.  This what we refer to as day
> patterns.  Each combination of letters represents what days will be
> used.
>
> Thanks for your response and help.
>
> I just discovered that Exploder 5.2 is blowing up but Netscape 7.0
> seems to work fine.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robert
>
> On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 08:55 AM, David Lovering wrote:
>
> > I think you are getting bitten by the comma-delimited list here.  You
> > can't
> > stuff that into a single option.
> >
> > You are much better off by running a 'for loop' around the array
> > generated
> > by splitting the comma delimeted list, and doing each entry by itself
> > with
> > the new Object declaration.
> >
> > That should work ok -- I do it all the time.
> >
> > -- Dave Lovering
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Robert Pollard" <rpollard at apple.com>
> > To: <javascript at LaTech.edu>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 8:44 AM
> > Subject: Repost of:[Javascript] Adding an item to a select list from
> > anotherwindow
> >
> >
> >> I'm sorry I posted this with the typo.  I had to change the code after
> >> I copied into the email and didn't notice I replaced the text
> >> incorrectly.
> >> My code doesn't have 2 options[j] in it.  I just posted it incorrectly
> >> to the list.
> >>
> >> I apologize for wasting your time with a typo.
> >>
> >> Here is the code as it is in my source:
> >>
> >> var vFields = new Option(commaDelimitedList, "",false,false);
> >> var j = window.opener.document.forms[0].elements[aValue[i]].length;
> >>
> >> It's good up until here.  This next line causes Explorer to
> >> unexpectedly quit.
> >> window.opener.document.forms[0].elements[aValue[i]].options[j] =
> >> vFields;
> >> This next line just returns a no object error.
> >> window.opener.document.forms[0].elements[aValue[i]].options[j].value =
> >> commaDelimitedList;
> >>
> >> Platform is Mac OS X 10.2.3
> >> Explorer: 5.2
> >>
> >> Any ideas why this wouldn't work?  Notice the second line actually
> >> returns a value.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any insight,
> >>
> >> Robert Pollard
> >>
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