Detecting browser minimize?

Dag Sunde

Is it possible to detect if the user minimizes the browser-window?

I do some polling, and want to stop it while the window in minimized,
but not when it only is blurred...

TIA...

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Dag.

Jun 16 '06 #1

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Randy Webb

Dag Sunde said the following on 6/16/2006 11:27 AM:

Is it possible to detect if the user minimizes the browser-window?
No.
I do some polling, and want to stop it while the window in minimized,
but not when it only is blurred...

Give up now before it gives you too many grey hairs :) You can't detect
minimizing.
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Jun 16 '06 #2

Tony

Randy Webb wrote:

Dag Sunde said the following on 6/16/2006 11:27 AM:
Is it possible to detect if the user minimizes the browser-window?

No.
I do some polling, and want to stop it while the window in minimized,
but not when it only is blurred...

Give up now before it gives you too many grey hairs :) You can't detect
minimizing.

Good thing - I can see it now:
<body onMinimize="maximize()">
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facts is the most likely to be believed by conspiracy theorists"

Jun 16 '06 #3

Dag Sunde

Randy Webb wrote:

Dag Sunde said the following on 6/16/2006 11:27 AM:
Is it possible to detect if the user minimizes the browser-window?

No.
I do some polling, and want to stop it while the window in minimized,
but not when it only is blurred...

Give up now before it gives you too many grey hairs :) You can't
detect minimizing.

Thanks!

--
Dag.

Jun 16 '06 #4

Dag Sunde

Tony wrote:

Randy Webb wrote:
Dag Sunde said the following on 6/16/2006 11:27 AM:
Is it possible to detect if the user minimizes the browser-window?

No.
I do some polling, and want to stop it while the window in
minimized, but not when it only is blurred...

Give up now before it gives you too many grey hairs :) You can't
detect minimizing.

Good thing - I can see it now:
<body onMinimize="maximize()">

LOL

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Dag.

Jun 16 '06 #5

Martin Honnen

Dag Sunde wrote:

Is it possible to detect if the user minimizes the browser-window?

I do some polling, and want to stop it while the window in minimized,
but not when it only is blurred...

There is no event that fires when the browser window is being minimized
but at least Mozilla/Firefox changes
window.outerWidth
window.outerHeight
when the window is minimized.
For instance here with Firefox 1.5 on Windows XP a minimized browser
window the browser reports the dimensions as
outerWidth: 160
outerHeight: 31
So your polling code could check for such a low outerHeight and stop
polling as long as the outerHeight is lower than a certain limit.

But note that I have not checked on other platforms, nor with other
browsers.
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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Jun 17 '06 #6

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