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[Javascript] Need help determining when remote window closes.


  • From: glenn_lanier at netzero.net (Glenn E. Lanier, II)
  • Subject: [Javascript] Need help determining when remote window closes.
  • Date: Tue Jun 21 12:23:07 2005

> On 6/21/05, Glenn E. Lanier, II <glenn_lanier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  
> > Hi, I want to open a new browser window, let the user use 
> that window for
> > several minutes, and when they close the window, I'd like 
> to change the page
> > displayed in the original window. 
> > 
> > File 2 contains some filler text. I can not change the 
> source of this window
> > (when live).

> From: javascript-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:javascript-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shawn Milo
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:54 AM
> 
> How about just using a cookie, and have the child window write to it
> onclose(), and have the parent check the cookie on a timer?
> 

Thanks, but I can not change the contents of the remote window. If I could, I
would use something like window.opener.closeRemote() which would close the
remote window (from the opening window) and do my processing.

--G