In the parent page/window you could have an invisible div then use
ajax.request to update the div with desired data and seem to popup by
setting visibility=true
On 9/20/08, Bobby.D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ok, I was just checking about the popup, I thought perhaps using the
> function to open would screw stuff up. I am designing an Intranet
> Business Web App, restricted to 1 browser. If I was going to use a
> "lightbox" effect I'd just open a whole new page, but I'm trying to
> give the app a slightly more desktop feel.
>
> On Sep 20, 1:49 pm, bluezehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Can I please, please beg of you not to use a popup window. It's ugly.
>> Most browsers just block them anyway so it's useless.
>>
>> You've got to remember as well that a popup window is a COMPLETELY
>> separate browser instance. You can't access any variables at all from
>> the source window, and prototype/scriptaculous will not be available
>> unless they're included in the source of the popup.
>>
>> Much much better is to bring up a fixed positioned div floated above
>> everything else on the page. Google prototip to see what I mean - and
>> they don't have to be "tooltips" either, they can be full on windows
>> over the rest of your page - see the other project by the author of
>> prototip, think it's called lightbox, to see what I mean.
>>
>> Other than that advice, your question is way too vague to be able to
>> answer it. If you have prototype in the source of the popup window,
>> ajax will be available just as it otherwise would be - either you
>> haven't included prototype or there's an error in your code, in which
>> case the fact that it's running in a popup window is completely
>> irrelevant.
>>
>> On Sep 20, 5:46 pm, "Bobby.D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > I'm using the following function to generate a pop up box:
>>
>> > var win=null;
>> > function popUp(page, name, w, h, scrollb) {
>> > var winL = (screen.width-w)/2;
>> > var winT = (screen.height-h)/3.5;
>> > var settings = 'height='+h+',';
>> > settings += 'width='+w+',';
>> > settings += 'top='+winT+',';
>> > settings += 'left='+winL+',';
>> > settings += 'resizable=no';
>> > settings += 'scrollbars='+scrollb+',';
>> > settings += 'toolbar=no';
>> > settings += 'menubar=no';
>> > window.open(page, name, settings);
>>
>> > }
>>
>> > I use the following link to open:
>>
>> > <a href="#" onclick="popUp('initiate.php', 'Initiate Case', '600',
>> > '600', 'no')"><img src="images/initiateCase.png" alt="Initiate Case" /
>>
>> > ></a>
>>
>> > The popup works, however, I can't get ANY AJAX to work on the pop up.
>> > I'm successfully loading several Spry Assets, I can't figure out why I
>> > can' get any of the AJAX to work.
>>
>> > I'm using an Updater to display a dynamically generated number from a
>> > PHP page. When I pull the php page up, it is working properly....but
>> > no update.
>>
>> > Could it be because of the way I'm opening the page?
> >
>
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