html change frame content

TooNew · Jul 8, 2005

Embarrassed to say I spent about five hours trying to do this and searching for a solution.

I have a generic frameset called “group.htm” with a frame called “mainFrame”. I have a number of htm files with content I want to load into “mainframe” as needed, based on a “getURL” action script command from a button in a flash swf file.

Since I can’t put together a dynamic solution, I have set up a separate frameset for each different htm file with “mainFrame” = to the individual htm’s.

This works but it doesn't make sense to have all the separate framesets that are identical except for the content of “mainFrame”.

I just can’t find the syntax to access and change “mainFrame” in the window created by a function to window.open(“group.htm” ….) executed by the “onload” event.

Developers have to be doing this all the time!

tsuji · Jul 9, 2005

Not sure understand the question.

>the window created by a function to window.open(“group.htm” ….)

To prepare for the complete functionality, define a global variable owin say. Then open the frameset by the usual window.open.
[tt]
<script language="javascript">
[blue]var owin;[/blue]
function doit() {
owin=window.open("group.htm");
}
//...
</script>
[/tt]
>...a generic frameset called “group.htm” with a frame called “mainFrame”...
>...I just can’t find the syntax to access and change “mainFrame” in the window created by a function to window.open(“group.htm” ….)...

This is how you can access the individual frame, in particular a named frame "mainFrame".
[tt]
function seturl(sname,surl) {
if([blue]owin[/blue]) {
owin.frames[sname].location=surl;
} else {
alert("Cannot find the frameset window, either it is closed or it has not been launched.");
}
}
[/tt]
The mainFrame can also be accessed by index number of it in the frameset. The above is by name defined in the frameset.

- tsuji

TooNew · Jul 9, 2005

Thank you ever so much!
I was using ( ) instead of [ ] in the following code.
myWin.frames["mainFrame"].location=newpage;

Works just as I knew it had to.

Thanks again.

TooNew · Jul 13, 2005

tsuji, again thanks for the help.

I find that the "seturl" function dosen't always seem to execute. To try to debug this, I put an "alert" statement between the "doit" function and the "seturl" function and the "seturl" function does executes every time when closing the alert message box. I also tried placing the "seturl" function within a "setTimeout" function and this worked better, but still not consistantly.

function doit(loadSet) {
myWin=window.open(loadSet);
setTimeout("seturl('cemeteryPrices.htm',
'cemeteryPricesNav.htm')",1000);
}

function seturl(setpage,setnav){
if(myWin) {
myWin.frames["mainFrame"].location=setpage;
myWin.frames["topFrame1"].location=setnav;
} else {
alert("Cannot find the frameset window, either it is closed or it has not been launched.");
}
}

<body onLoad="javascript:doit('cemeteryFrameSet.htm');">

tsuji · Jul 13, 2005

TooNew, even though adding a protocol javascript: to the onload handler is not very appealling, but should not result in any adverse effect here. I cannot reproduce your observation from simple pages. Take the "javascript:" out and try again? There are issues related to cross-domain security and pages resisting to be loaded in frame setting. But for pages of your own domain and with contents you have full control, I cannot see an obvious reason for inconsistency, though timing may be a legitimate concern.
- tsuji

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