I'm not sure about the others but:
win.focus() will probaly not work until the page has loaded. So
calling it immediately would not work unless the window has been
loaded.
Try writing the window.onload stuff to the window.
--
( Robert Rainwater )
On 3/4/2001, 6:37:13 PM EST, Dann wrote about "SV: [Dynapi-Dev] DynAPI layer
techniques applied to windows":
> Hi,
> Thanks for the feedback !
> I haven't been able to debug it to the detail, but referencing a window immediately
>returned by an open method doesn't seem reliable... I haven't been able yet to figure
>out what you can do,
> and what you can't do :
> win = open(...), immediately followed by
> win.<method> can cause a script error, depending on conditions I haven't been able
>to put my finger on...
> e.g. win.focus() doesn't always work...
> e.g. win.onload=<function> sometimes throws an error...
> Troubles often occur if the window is already open, trying to open it again has been
>documented as a way to retrieve the handle to that window... but consecutive methods
>applied to such a
> window can fail... dunno which methods do or why they do it yet...
> I tried the win.onload = <callback method to opener> and it was not reliable...
>don't know under which conditions it fails... the only reliable method is to hardwire
>the callback in the window
> you are opening (already in the HTML embedded scripts). Such a window would contain
>an onLoad handler which accesses the opener to execute code in reponse :
> [code in opened window :] opener.callback(<identifier>) in which <identifier> is
>most likely this.name, as it is the only identifier which can be matched against the
>identifier used to open the
> window, remember the open method :
> open(<url>,<identifier>,<window features>)
> The opener would have registered that <identifier> to a windowManager in advance,
>together with a Function object to be executed in callback (as in a hashtable). That
>callback can resize, move,
> focus... the opened window in reponse to its onLoad event returning the right
>identifier.
> So far, doing it that way keeps the errors away... not really ugly, perhaps even
>elegant in a way, but what an effort !!!
> CU,
> Dann
> I think, just as Eytan pointed out b.t.w., that the object you get a reference to is
>not immediately there
> example :
> ca
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