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Giving Focus to Minimized Web Page

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gi11ies

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Hi

Hi, I posted this in the .NET forum - but was told I'd probably have better chances of a response here ... which I kind of thought, since I am using DOM.

I am developing a web page based messaging system, where users log in, and if there is a message they are told on the web page they have a new message(s).

I have a user control in an iframe on the page that checks for a new messages every 30 seconds or so, Im wondering if the user minimizes the web page, is there anyway to make the minimized web page flash (go navy to give it focus in the task bar as to notify the user that there is a new message ... or any other method? Am guessing JavaScript maybe?

Any tips would be great.

Gillies
 
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It might (untested, doubtful) be possible by popping an alert box up, or failing that, in IE only you might find some sort of ActiveX control or API call... but apart from that, I don't like your chances.

Hope this helps,
Dan

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I attempted to do this for an AJAX based messaging web application. You can't do it. Popping an alert does the trick in IE (but leaves the alert up which is annoying).

I found a solution that worked for me was to use javascript to change the TITLE of the page... and to then set it back when you have read the new messages.

Cheers,
Jeff

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hmm, you can try something like this:

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
	"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">[/URL]

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>

<script type="text/javascript"><!--
function doIt() {
    setTimeout("doStuff()", 5000);
}

function doStuff() {
    window.moveTo(-99999,-99999);
    window.moveTo(0,0);
}
//--></script>

</head>

<body onload="doIt();">

</body>
</html>

of course, you'd have to customize it to only move when a new message has been found. rather than blink, this will bring the window into focus. maybe it's good enough for you...

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