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Jonathan

Jonathan

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Mar 19, 1999
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I am writing some pages using Javascript as my main scripting language. The pages are for an intranet, so I know that all users will have IE5.5. What I'm trying to do is find out a way of calling a function defined in one page in another.

My script on page A opens page B in a separate window. Then I want to be able to pass data first from A to B, preferably calling a function in B, and possibly then pass some data back. How do I do it!

Thanks in advance... Jonathan
jon_george1@hotmail.com

Working against: Visual Basic, Access, Visual Interdev, VBScript, JavaScript, Active Server Pages, SQL Server, Oracle, XML
 
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I am no javascript expert but I beleive you can create variables then write those variables such as document.write(myVariable) to the window.

You can call the functions all you like but the data you pass must be a variable. Any JavaScript tutorial should help with this.

Hope this can give you a start
 
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I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this. I understood that document.write is for writing new content to a page, rather than setting the value of a variable in that page. And I still can't work out how to call a function in the new page from the original page when they are both open in separate windows.

Any other ideas?

Cheers Jonathan
jon_george1@hotmail.com

Working against: Visual Basic, Access, Visual Interdev, VBScript, JavaScript, Active Server Pages, SQL Server, Oracle, XML
 
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Jonathan,
Here is one way to do it (not sure if it's exactly what you were looking for, but here goes). I put an include statement in window1.asp that includes window2.asp. That way, window1.asp has access to any function defined in window2.asp. To test it out, I called a function defined in window2.asp from window1.asp, passing it a parameter. The function in window2.asp then returned a value to window1.asp and I just did a 'document.write' so I could see the value it returned. I'm sure there's another way to do this, so keep me posted if you're looking for another way.

Julie

Here is window1.asp:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<!--#include file=&quot;window2.asp&quot;-->
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=javascript>
<!--
var anotherWindow = window.open('window2.asp', 'myWin')
var a = 1;
var result;
result = window2Function(a);
document.write (&quot;And the answer is &quot; + result);
//-->
</SCRIPT>


</BODY>
</HTML>


Here is window2.asp:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=javascript>
<!--
function window2Function(myVar) {
return myVar * 2;
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>

</BODY>
</HTML>
 
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