[Chameleon] RE: Window focus

[Ken Sanderson]

If you are building the page on the fly you could add your variable to
the child window at the same time, or you could pass your variable
through the URL used in the open(). If not building the page on the fly
I think if you have a variable defined on the child, you can then assign
data to that variable. So you would do the open() and then assign data
to the specific variable.

Some thoughts at any rate.

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org
[mailto:chameleon-bounces at lists.maptools.org] On Behalf Of Tweedy, Scott
Sent: September 10, 2004 7:44 AM
To: 'chameleon at lists.maptools.org'
Subject: [Chameleon] RE: Window focus


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
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> 
> 

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