Question on javascript events

[fisa]

I have an HTML page that has a readonly text box input field( say, system name). I have a button on the page , which on click opens up a new page from where the user can select a name which then appears in the text box.

What I want to do is to populate the other text boxes in the page automatically according to the system name selected. I tried implementing this by calling a java script function onChange of the text box for system name. But onChange event occurs only when there a manual change made to the input field and not when the field is populated by selecting a name from a window. How do I do this? All I want to do is to invoke a javascript function onChange of the text box field value, provided the textbox is readonly.

Please shed some light on this?

 

[LFI]

Assuming you populate the textbox with something like:

opener.document.forms[0].textBox.value = myValue;

...you could follow this statement with:

opener.javaScriptFunctionIWantToTrigger();

...or something to that affect.

Good luck.

--Dave