[Chameleon] RE: Window focus

[bartvde at xs4all.nl]

I tried something like this last week and it did not work in my case.

It seemed like one cannot store a javascript object handle in a form
string variable.

Curious if you will get it to work.

Best regards,
Bart

> You could try the following:
>
> In your index.phtml (after you initialize oApp) put:
>
> if( isset( $_POST['childWin'] ) && strlen( $_POST['childWin'] ) >  )
>      $oApp->setVar( 'childWin', strtolower( $_POST['childWin'] ) );
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> In your template form put:
>
> <input type="hidden" name="childWin" value="[$szChildWin|NULL$]">
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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;
> }
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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
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>>>
>>>
>>
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