window handle state {...}

Will

I have a parent/child relationship between two windows. The parent
spawns the child using something like this.

windowHandle = window.open("child.aspx","child");

the problem is that if the child window closes then the windowHandle
object is left in an orphaned state. It does't equate to null and I'm
not sure how to check and see if the window still exists. The child
does notify the parent window through the window.opener object when it
closes but this does not work in EVERY case.

I'm looking for something like "if isnothing(windowHandle)"

thanks
will

Jul 23 '05 #1

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In your child.aspx :
<body onUnload="self.opener='null';"

Would be nice to have self-updating window-refs, but it would possibly
compromise the unter-domain security.

Jul 23 '05 #2

Will Wirtz

VK,

Thanks for the quick response. I am currently performing some similar
code in the onload event but the problem is that if the child page
reloads because of an autopost back of a drop down control then the
onunload event fires and I don't want to seperate the parent and the
child at that point, only when the child window closes. This is the
problem I'm trying to work around. I just wish there was an event that
signals the window closing and not just unload the html.
will
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Jul 23 '05 #3

Grant Wagner

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I have a parent/child relationship between two windows. The parent
spawns the child using something like this.

windowHandle = window.open("child.aspx","child");

the problem is that if the child window closes then the windowHandle
object is left in an orphaned state. It does't equate to null and I'm
not sure how to check and see if the window still exists. The child
does notify the parent window through the window.opener object when it
closes but this does not work in EVERY case.

I'm looking for something like "if isnothing(windowHandle)"

<url: http://jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ4_10 />

windowHandle is not in an "orphaned" state. It's -closed- property is
set to true. You can test for that.

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Grant Wagner <gw*****@agricoreunited.com>
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Jul 23 '05 #4

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