chris belyea

hey rusty thanks for the reply.... My application is internal only... at the end of accomplishing a task, the applet opens a browser and goes to an internal url....

The users are lazy and want what they want, they don't want to follow our standard proceedures, so they don't bother closing the web page and then expect the next time the application accomplishes the same task, then that existing browser instance will again be brought to the forefront displaying the new information, but it does'nt, it just changes behind the scenes and they don't like that. I have argued blue in the face that we are not following standard practices BUT they don't care, nothing about the program is normal anyway so i needed to come up with some type of workaround but i can't seem to come up with anything.

The url we hit is dynamically assembled and passed to the applet.. i don't have access to the code from the web page we actually hit soooooo i was trying to control the browser, either bring it to front, or close it onBlur so that when it called showDocument the next time it would create a new browser instance and when that happens it always opens a new one on top... My problem basically lies in the fact that the user won't close the browser window on their own, and i have been told to fix it... :-(

Hmmm, it looks like IE defaults the window to the front when you use

showDocument(url, "Name");

but Mozilla does not... either way my application does'nt do it. I somehow have to open a new (temporary) browser from a java class with a dynamic URL that the java class recieves and have this new window close onBlur>... but the trick is i do not control the code on the webpage we are going to....

I never seem to get responses on this board but i am really hoping someone can shed some light... I am using an applet to spawn the browser but maybe the solution to this has nothing to do with applets, perhaps i am posting this in the wrong place??

Hi There

i have a problem that i have looked at high and low today and am really interested to find an answer. I have opened a browser window from a java extension class written for an applet.... i.e

AppletContext a = getAppletContext();
URL url = new URL(link);
a.showDocument(url,"URS");

This works fine and ofcourse there are other options for "_blank", "_self" etc, instead of naming it as i did above "URS"...

My issue is that if noone closes this window and it falls behind the application, then the next time the method is run and the url changes, the web browser updates but is not brought to the front.... this old application is built with AWT, i do not see a way to regain control of this browser and bring it to the front. "_blank" will pop up a new browser window BUT eventually if the user does not close the windows they will have a pile of windows open.... Why would they have an option to name it if i can't access it again?? I could really use a hand, or an explanation of why this works this way if i am trying to do something that is in left field!!!

Thanks guys

Chris
[ August 20, 2008: Message edited by: chris belyea ]

I have been searching all over the place for a way to do this.. I have no options. It's not a Frame, it is just an applet with some info on it and they do not want it to be able to be minimized... I can't see any way of doing this, i know it may even go against some standars and all, but this is what they want and i am at a loss?? Can anyone shed some light, i cannot add any code to use Frames or anything, not allowed!! Craziness