[Chameleon] RE: Window focus

[Jason Fournier]

You could try the following:

In your index.phtml (after you initialize oApp) put:

if( isset( $_POST['childWin'] ) && strlen( $_POST['childWin'] ) > 0 )
     $oApp->setVar( 'childWin', strtolower( $_POST['childWin'] ) );

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In your template form put:

<input type="hidden" name="childWin" value="[$szChildWin|NULL$]">

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In your javascript function include (forms[0] assumes you only have one 
form in the template):

if( document.forms[0].childWin.value != "NULL" )
{
     // the window has been opened prior to submit so get a handle on it
     // reference it by name
}
else
{
     //open the window
     wh = window.open.......
     // set the hidden var
     document.forms[0].childWin.value = wh;
}

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You'll have to update your TemplateParser.php script from cvs for the 
preprocessing to work properly.

This is untested code ;)

Jason




Tweedy, Scott wrote:

> Thanks to Paul and Jason for your answers they work.  Now I have another
> question.
> 
> It seems that the window I open is tied to the main window (that's where I
> had to declare the variable myWh to make this work).  Once any operation is
> performed on the map (Zoom in, Apply points to map, etc) and the main page
> refreshes I lose the variable myWh and the application window starts again.
> 
> Is there any way around this behaviour?  Is there any way of passing the
> variable myWh (the child window) in a form to the newly refreshed page?
> 
> Thanks again,
> st
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>>From: 	Tweedy, Scott  
>>Sent:	Thursday, September 09, 2004 10:56 AM
>>To:	'chameleon at lists.maptools.org'
>>Subject:	Window focus
>>
>>I have an application written in Chameleon.  When a button in the main
>>application is clicked it opens a child popup window which contains most
>>of the code for the application.  If the user  minimizes the child window
>>and clicks on the main button again the child window is reinitialized and
>>the user has to start from scratch.
>>
>>Is there a way to test to see if the child window is already open when the
>>user clicks on the main button and to simply shift focus to that window if
>>it is and to reinitialize it if the window isn't open?
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>st
>>
>>Scott Tweedy
>>Geoscience Database Analyst - Analyste de base des données
>>géoscientifiques
>>ESS Geoinformatics Division - Division SST Géoinformatique
>>Earth Sciences Sector - Secteur des sciences de la terre
>>Natural Resources Canada - Ressources naturelles Canada
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>>
>>
> 
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