Flash, JavaScript, and IE 5.5

[ptbernar]

Hey all-

I have a problem with a website. On my page, I make a JavaScript call to the history.back() function. This works fine until I open a pop-up window from my .swf file.

After opening the window, my history.back() link no longer functions. However, when I select any other link in my Flash movie, the history.back() function is executed INSTEAD of the desired link.

This is only a problem with IE 5.5 and 6.0, everything works fine in IE 5.0

Any ideas??? I'm really lost on this one.

 

[oldnewbie]

Have you ever asked yourself if that popup has a history? As opposed to your main browser window! Regards,

 

[ptbernar]

I have tried calling self.history.back() as well, in order to avoid any conflict between the history of the parent and child windows, but it does not work either.

I'm sure that the pop-up window has it's own history, but as I said the correct history.back() function is being executed, it's just not being executed from the page, the control seems to be trapped by the Flash movie.

Is there maybe an ActionScript function/call that I could use to explicitly transfer control from the Flash Movie back to the rest of the page?

Thanks.

 

[xutopia]

try using debug info like this :

alert(history.length)

This will check that there is a history if it is above 1. Gary

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Haran