reference to a showModelessDialog from a different window

[ThorO]

Hello guys

I have a problem with understand how to 'find' a showModelessDialog from a different window. What I want to do is using a showModelessDialog in a printtemplate to give users a status on whats going on. I have a document in a frameset which open a showModelessDialog e.g.
winref = showModelessDialog(bla..bla)
Then I open a different window (or the printtemplate does) and then I need to e.g. close the showModelessDialog window from the 'new' window.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance
Thor

 

[kaht]

try using the opener reference:

http://www.webreference.com/js/tutorial1/opener.html

So in your situation, you have a window a, it opens up a modeless dialog box and assigns it to a variable called winref, it then opens up a new window b. In window b you should be able to use the following code to reference the variable called winref:

var newWinRef = opener.window.winref

from there you can do whatever you could normally do to the modeless box - like close it:

newWinRef.close();

-kaht

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[ThorO]

Hello kath and thanks for reply. I am sorry to inform that this did not work. I think that the print-preview window which the templateprinter use also is a sort of showModeDialog and that has restrictions. I will try to ask the guys who made the Printtemplate we use, and hopefully they can answer.

Thanks for your time

Thor

 

[ThorO]

I have come a step further and now understand that the printtemplate (which is a completly separate window) has many restrictions, so I am not able to run anything from the printtemplate. I can however change the value of a variable from the document that has winref and hope that someone can give me a clue on how I can set up a sort of eventhandler that can trigger when a certain variable change and from that point I can call the winref.close() or whatever I want.

I have testet with onchange etc., but they do not fire of when I from a different window change their values.

Does anybody have a suggestion?

Thanks in advance
Thor