managing popup windows

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I have a parent window that potentially open a lot of pop windows(let call
them children windows) from different page on the parent. Over time, those
children windows can add up on the screen if the users don't close them
manually. What I'm looking to do is I want to have all the children windows
closed itself when the parent windows is closed by either X it out or close
by the window.close method in the parent window. I know every children
windows has it own window name. What I could do here is look for those
children window names then close it using a script in the parent window. But
the challenge is, I don't know which windows are opened when the user about
to close the parent window. I would get a object not found error if i
reference a none existent children window name. I want to avoid that error.
I want to know all the available pop up windows at the time when the parent
window is about to close then close them out. Does anyone have some ideas?

thanks

Ken

[kaeli]

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I want to avoid that error.
I want to know all the available pop up windows at the time when the parent
window is about to close then close them out. Does anyone have some ideas?

Sure. Check if they're null before closing them.

Simplistic snip of my code that works in IE5+/NN4+/Opera6+ (not tested
in other browsers)...

var h_window = null;

// the open, gets a handle
if (!h_window || h_window == null || typeof h_window == "undefined" ||
h_window.closed || !h_window.document)
h_window = window.open("help.html","Help","height=200,width=
200,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes");

// the close, if necessary
if (!(!h_window || h_window == null || typeof h_window == "undefined" ||
h_window.closed || !h_window.document))
h_window.close();

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