Modal Window in Firefox

[Smellyfrog]

Hi,

I'm a newbie in mozilla web development. I've been developping apps
for IE and Netscape for years though.
After searching the internet (groups google etc..), I found a way to
pop a modal window using a XUL page.

Here is my question: despite seing examples of how to return a value
to the caller window, I have been unable to make this work. Is there
anyone who would have a TESTED very simple example on poping a modal
window that would receive one argument and would return a result?

I want to use this to pop a calendar page and return the date chosen.
I have the code for the calendar, but I need the mechanism to get the
date back. This window has to be modal by requirement.

Many thanks
Yannick

[mscir]

Smellyfrog wrote:

<snip>

Is there
anyone who would have a TESTED very simple example on poping a modal
window that would receive one argument and would return a result?

I use this on Netscape 7.2 and Firefox 1 PR to open a modal window to
the dictionary site, (it looks up a word and give you
dictionary/thesaurus hits free).

javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void (Qr=prompt('Look up
this word at
yourDictionary.com:',''))};if(Qr)w=window.open('ht tp://www.yourdictionary.com:80/cgi-bin/lkupbttn.cgi?dlookup='+escape(Qr),'yourDictionary' ,'width=480,height=400,top=0,left=0,scrollbars=yes ,resizable=yes,modal=yes');w.focus();

Mike

[Smellyfrog]

Hi Mike,

Thanks a million for your reply. It did give me a new approach on how
to pop a window as modal.
However would you know how to return a value to the caller window?
This is my main problem at the moment.

Thanks
Yannick

mscir <ms***@access4less.net> wrote in message news:<10*************@corp.supernews.com>...

Smellyfrog wrote:

<snip>

Is there
anyone who would have a TESTED very simple example on poping a modal
window that would receive one argument and would return a result?

I use this on Netscape 7.2 and Firefox 1 PR to open a modal window to
the dictionary site, (it looks up a word and give you
dictionary/thesaurus hits free).

javascript:Qr=document.getSelection();if(!Qr){void (Qr=prompt('Look up
this word at
yourDictionary.com:',''))};if(Qr)w=window.open('ht tp://www.yourdictionary.com:80/cgi-bin/lkupbttn.cgi?dlookup='+escape(Qr),'yourDictionary' ,'width=480,height=400,top=0,left=0,scrollbars=yes ,resizable=yes,modal=yes');w.focus();

Mike

[mscir]

Smellyfrog wrote:

Thanks a million for your reply. It did give me a new approach on how
to pop a window as modal.
However would you know how to return a value to the caller window?
This is my main problem at the moment.

Hi Yannick,

Would you mind explaining what you want to do in a little more detail?

Mike