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How to not open a named regular window if it already exisits

 
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Hello All
How can you check If the window with name YWINDOW was already opened by the user
If he tries to click on the link on different page

X page link opens url Y with window name as YWINDOW.

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Is this what you are asking for?



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Hello Eric
Thanks for your code. But in our application we have we a main window from App A which would open a link to a new windown in appB , App A and App B are independent application afterr it has been opened.

Your code if i understand right has a instance variable called winPop and then if a window is opened it will be assigned true so when next time someone trries to click on the link to open a window it would fail saying it is already open.

But this will not help in my scenario when if the app B window is closed by that application or by user of browserr for app b. The instance variable in my application will always think there is App B window is always open. SO how can i handle this scenario like when App B is prresent use it otherwise open a new window.


Thanks for your help
 
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when b is closed, the object is destroyed and it will open up a new window.

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Hello Eric
Thanks, The code works perfect till from application A i stay on the same page and try to invoke the link to app B.

If I move away frm that page in App A the variable is initiased to false and the next time when u click on the link coming back to the page which has the lnk it tries to open window again

what can i do?
 
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You loose the object. JavaScript gets reset when you change pages since it has nothing like session. Ways around it are ugly and deal with frames.

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Hello Eric
Thanks for your rreply. I understand that if you move away from the page which originally created the opened window you loose the new window object refrence (winpop = false) again.

So i am thinking of a way to maintain it even if i move away from the page and I think of 2 ways
1. Using cookies. Write a javascript to write a cookie and store the reference when i open a new window and when i move away frorm the page i initialize the value of winPop by getting the value from cookie.
2. using netscape.javascript.JSObject, please tell me whether it is possible at all.
Would appreciate your expert comments on this.

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Can you please help me on this...
 
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If this is critical you are going to have to use a hidden frame and open the windows from that hidden frame.

The cookie would make it a string and not an object.

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Many thanks
So cookie option is out is it?
Next what about using netscape.javascript.JSObject and storing in session as areference is it possible?
 
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netscape.javascript.JSObject

When I see something like that I hear not cross browser compliant...You could always try...

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