Passing data to an existing form

[tbubbs]

Hello,
Here is my problem. I have a pop up window that is used to select comments. Once a comment is selected I would like it to be placed in the comment area of the main page. The reason I have a pop up window, is because the user may want to expand on the existing comment. The problem I am having is that when I go to close the pop up window, it does not refresh the main page with the selected commment. Any suggestions? I have done this for other pages, but as I was closing those pages, I was submitting directly to the database, this time I just want to submit to the existing parent page.
Thanks,
T

 

[JohnYingling]

Put the comment into the URL querystring and send it to your page to incorporate it and redisplay.

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[JJR]

You could also consider using the window.opener statement in Javascript to get a reference to the window object of the page that opened the pop-up. And from there you might be able to write the contents of the pop-up window to the main window without even refreshing.

Don't know if it's cross-browser compatible...

Jordi Reineman

 

[GlennBSI]

If your users are all using IE5, you can open a modal dialog window and get whatever value(s) you want back from it.

Check out window.showModalDialog. Example in VBScript:

Dim vDialogArguments
Dim vReturnValue
	
vDialogArguments = window.frmMyForm.txtComments.value
vReturnValue = window.showModalDialog("PopUpComments.ASP", vDialogArguments, "dialogHeight:500px;dialogWidth:795px;center:yes;help:no;resizable:yes;status:no")
window.frmMyForm.txtComments.value = vReturnValue