JS variable assignment problem

[Bastien]

I have a situation like this:

On the parent (framed) page, i declare an object in js in a hidden frame

var xfilter = new Object();

Then from a child window, I am doing an AJAX call to fetch an xml snippet which comes back as an XML object via HTPPRequest.ResponseXML

What I want to do then is assign the xml object to the xfilter object via

//d is the object to the parent window's hidden frame
d = window.opener.parent.frames.hidden_work_area;
d.xfilter[key] = objXML;

However, this is is not working, giving an undefined error on the xfilter object. IS this a scoping issue in the js varxfilter?

How do I sort this out?



Bastien

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Have you tried using "window.parent" instead of "window.opener.parent"?

I don't think "window.opener" is useful unless you are dealing with windows opened using "window.open" - which is not the case with a frame.

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[Bastien]

nope, the addressing of the frame is correct.

I am currently playing with extending the var d to include the object xfilter to so this:

d = window.opener.parent.frames.hidden_work_area.xfilter;
d[key] = objXML;

I seem to be having more success with this approach

Bastien

I wish my computer would do what I want it to do,
instead of what I tell it to do...

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

So are you using window.open to open the window running the above code, then?

Dan



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