yeah, chrome at least sets window.opener on o-i-n-t windows to the parent tab. Just realized I could test this just in the devtools without mucking around with messageEvents - you just need to check if window.opener is null or not.
e On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Eric Eslinger <[email protected]>wrote: > As far as I know, the browser treats each window as a separate memory > space (so shared objects are right out) and each reload/refresh event as a > total restart. You could try being clever with localStorage (although > rapid-fire clicks would probably lead to a race condition as you can't > really guarantee instantiation order of the tabs, I imagine). > > It would also be helpful to store all relevant variables in your path, but > if that's not available, you may need to look into using some kind of > cross-window communication. I *think* (I've never actually tried this) that > a tab opened via open-in-new-tab maintains a reference to the parent window > in window.opener, so could get get clever with all kinds of message events. > > Best bet is storing unreconstructable state in the URL, I think. That > seems to me like what it's for. > > e > > > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Srikar Shastry > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello, >> I have two pages each supported by respective controllers. Now, I want to >> pass variable from first controller to another as later utilizes it as get >> query parameter (not the path parameter). I tried services but when user >> right clicks and clicks "open link in a new tab", the second controller >> receives am empty var. Same happens when user reloads the page. I tried >> local storage but the problem with that is when user tries to open >> multiple links, all point to the latest variable(true since local storage >> is being overwritten with latest vars as user clicks on links). Any idea on >> how to restrict services from reseting on page reload? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "AngularJS" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/angular. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AngularJS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/angular. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
