5~On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Matthew Todd wrote: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:12:54PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > When a reviewer is assigned to a book, I want two distinct things to > > happen: (1) a letter is generated, to be printed and sent out by > > snail-mail; and (2) the user is redirected back to a blank assignment > > screen. > > On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 16:17, David Rasch wrote: > > I would suggest you add an onclick event to a link or an onsubmit > > event (using JavaScript) to your form that launches a window with the > > popup PDF (which could be from a Perl script), and then redirect your > > current window to a new location > > > Warning, you'll find your efforts stymied by some popup blockers. > > We've found Google's to be particularly strict. > > If there's any way to re-shape the user interaction to avoid both things > having to happen at once, I'd recommend it. > > Or (ugh) frames somehow? -- Matthew >
Thanks for the warning. In this case I don't think it's too much of a problem, since this is for internal use -- only 4 or 5 clients will be accessing it, and I can just make them turn off their popup blockers :) ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
