Devide the reload and close window actions

[olegkot]

Hi!

When I put code into the onunload= hendler I get the problem conserning the close and refresh window actions.

Situation: when I close window with my "close" button on the page, some code dealing with closing child windows goes, but to get the same functionality with closing through standard "x" window button - I need to put the same code (function) to onunload= body tag. Here the problem :-( that the window.location.reload (which I use on the same page as well) function is also pushes the "onunload=" event. So it also closes the window...

Any ideas?

 

[iza]

when you fire window.location.reload, also set a flag to whatever (say : true)
then onunload, check if this flag is true, if it is, don't close, if it's not, close - and don't forget to turn it to false again

 

[olegkot]

Pls explain more.
Actualy I fire reload method from child window to parent:
opener.location.reload.

So how to pass that flag?

oleg

 

[baad]

take a look at thread216-127820

but may be iza has something to add? Victor

 

[olegkot]

Victor!

Everything you recomended is working perfect. Only the "F5" (refresh) is still making problems! It calls first of all handler for onUnload event which is closing the window, because theFlag = false (we change theFlag when we call rl() function) ??

Any ideas..? s-)

 

[baad]

well, i have just few 'words' in my mind:
may be you should set this unload handler when you really need it to run (after some actions you have to do or something) & then it would look like this:
if you're done, let'em hit F5 in their pleasure, but then they would delete these child windows handy, & if you are still in your actions, then reload won't do anything to your window, & 'child reminder' would do it's job

here is a faq on seting/deleting event handlers for this forum (follow the link in the right bottom corner of this (or any) post) Victor