at 5.34p EDT on 2004 February 02 Monday Miguel Howard said: > > using opener would help to use a JavaScript function in an JavaScript > > generated window (I don't know any other way to define a JavaScript > > function as content of a JavaScript written window). > > We need to try one more time. > > I still do not understand what you are trying to accomplish. > for example: a Web page opens a new window with JMol instance in it. the msgcallback for that Jmol applet would call to a js function that exists in the opener document, but not in the document that contains the Jmol applet code. similar situation for a multi-frame document, where Jmol in one frame calls a js function that exists in another sibling frame (or the parent).
> Java cannot call a JavaScript function that is on another page. It *must* > call a JavaScript function on the same window that contains the Java > Applet. > that sounds pretty final. ;-) I wonder: what if the Java applet called a function in the same window, but *that* function called one in a different window? that would work, no? <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd";> <html> <head> <!-- <title>demo only!</title> <script type='text/javascript'> function show_picked(app,info,num) { var picked = opener.show_picked(app,info,num); alert (picked); } function show_msgd(app,msg) { var picked = opener.show_msgd(app,msg); alert (picked); } </script> --> </head> <body> <!-- <applet name="jmolapp" code="JmolApplet" archive="JmolApplet.jar" width="90%" height="90%" align="left" mayscript="true"> <param name="emulate" value="chime" /> <param name="load" value="1d66.pdb" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" /> <param name="style" value="shaded" /> <param name="wireframeRotation" value="false" /> <param name="perspectiveDepth" value="false" /> <param name="MessageCallBack" value="show_msgd" /> <param name="PickCallBack" value="show_picked" /> <param name="debugscript" value="true" /> </applet> --> </body> </html> regards, :tim -- timothy driscoll molvisions - molecular graphics & visualization <http://www.molvisions.com/> usa:north carolina:wake forest ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
