Java Question

mparab

I have a javascript applet that edit's a record. When you click 'update' the applet closes and reloads the main page. This works fine in IE 6, but doesn't work in Netscape 7.1. In Netscape the applet opens and closes like it should but it does not update the database. Here is the javascript I use:

print"<td><input type=submit name=update value=Update language=\"javascript\" onclick=\"window.opener.location.reload(); self.close();\" ></td>";

Thanks in advance,
M

nemonoman

I had the same problem with similar code.

Lets say you have a window base.php
that opens subwindow.php

In my case, I had a form in subwindow.php that got and displayed new values from the database. Sort of:
subwindow.php?action=newvalues

In IE, 'opener' was always base.php

In Netscape opener was base.php UNLESS AND UNTIL subwindow.php?action=newvalues was clikcked...then Netscaoe considered subwindow.php to the 'opener'

My solution was to have subwindow.php write values to a database on close, and then to force a refresh of base.php through a reload which captured the database values loaded by subwindow.

mtimdog

I did something similar also...I had the subwindow when clicked, change values in a hidden form on the main window...then submitted the form...then the window closed. I don't remember any problem with Netscape though?...hmmm

nemonoman

Both IE and netscape work fine if the popup window directly sends values to the underlying opener.

Netscape problem only arises if the new window changes...if you click a link or submit a form and repopulate the new window.

For example I had a simple pop-up color picker that always worked: pop up a pallette, pick a color, populate the opener.

For the alternate case example,the popup window was 'find or create a new customer' for an underlying opener order window.

If all that happened was to fill out the popup's initial display form, things went OK: new customer info was incorporated in the opener.

If they clicked through on the new window to find an existing customer, however, IE would populate the opener page with the found customer data, but Netscape would not.

If a user clicked through from the initial create customer to the find customer page in the new window, Netscape regarded the 'create customer' popup as the opener of the 'find customer' popup.

IE maintained that the original order page was the opener for both cases.

It pays to do some cross-browser checking...they all work differently.