Popup Window

[ruca]

Hi,

DESCRIPTION:
I'm developing an application that when I need to insert a date, I use 3
textbox's and one image button. This image button open's a small popup
window with a calendar, allowing user choose date. Then, this popup returns
the year, month and day to the correspondent textbox. So far, so good.

PROBLEM:
The problem is that the applications opens so popup's as the number of
clicks that I do in image button. What I want is that only opens one popup
at a time. That when it's already one open, this closes and open a new
popup.

For that I have a .JS file that have this:
-------------------------------------------------
var NewWnd = null;

function DestroyWnd()
{
// close the current window
if(this.NewWnd != null)
{
this.NewWnd.close();
this.NewWnd = null;
}
}

function pick(Year,Month,Day)
{
if((this.NewWnd == null) || (this.NewWnd.closed))
{
var url = "Calendar.aspx?srcA=" + Year + "&srcM=" + Month + "&srcD=" + Day
this.NewWnd = window.open(url, "_blank", "height=200, width=200, left=250,
top=200, " +
"location=no, menubar=no, resizable=no, " +
"scrollbars=no, titlebar=no, toolbar=no", true);
}
else
{
DestroyWnd();
pick(Year,Month,Day);
}
}
-------------------------------------------------

Because buttons do postback my .JS variable (NewWnd) is reset and never
mantain the value of window.
How can I solve this?
--
Programming ASP.NET with VB.NET
Thank's (if you try to help me)
Hope this help you (if I try to help you)
ruca

[Armin Zingler]

"ruca" <ru***@iol.pt> schrieb

Hi,

DESCRIPTION:
I'm developing an application that when I need to insert a date, I
use 3 textbox's and one image button. This image button open's a
small popup window with a calendar, allowing user choose date. Then,
this popup returns the year, month and day to the correspondent
textbox. So far, so good.

PROBLEM:
The problem is that the applications opens so popup's as the number
of clicks that I do in image button. What I want is that only opens
one popup at a time. That when it's already one open, this closes and
open a new popup.

For that I have a .JS file that have this:
-------------------------------------------------
var NewWnd = null;

[...]

This is a VB.Net group. Please post only to the appropriate groups. Thx.
--
Armin

[ruca]

Hi Armin,
If you can see in my signature it says:

------------------------------------
Programming ASP.NET with VB.NET
Thank's (if you try to help me)
Hope this help you (if I try to help you)
ruca
------------------------------------

And I posted here too, because maybe It's possible I have to do anything in
my VB code (if I know the answer, I'm sure that I don't post here my
question).
If you can see too, you've posted your answer to my question in ASPNET and
JSCRIPT group. Like me, you've posted wrong.

Thanks anyway for your help.
ruca

"Armin Zingler" <az*******@freenet.de> escreveu na mensagem
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"ruca" <ru***@iol.pt> schrieb

Hi,

DESCRIPTION:
I'm developing an application that when I need to insert a date, I
use 3 textbox's and one image button. This image button open's a
small popup window with a calendar, allowing user choose date. Then,
this popup returns the year, month and day to the correspondent
textbox. So far, so good.

PROBLEM:
The problem is that the applications opens so popup's as the number
of clicks that I do in image button. What I want is that only opens
one popup at a time. That when it's already one open, this closes and
open a new popup.

For that I have a .JS file that have this:
-------------------------------------------------
var NewWnd = null;

[...]

This is a VB.Net group. Please post only to the appropriate groups. Thx.
--
Armin

[Armin Zingler]

"ruca" <ru***@iol.pt> schrieb

Hi Armin,
If you can see in my signature it says:

------------------------------------
Programming ASP.NET with VB.NET
Thank's (if you try to help me)
Hope this help you (if I try to help you)
ruca
------------------------------------

It's not interesting whether you are using VB.Net for programming as long as
the question is not related to the VB.Net programming language. Even after
reading your question again I don't see any relation.
--
Armin

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "ruca" <ru***@iol.pt> scripsit:

The problem is that the applications opens so popup's as the number of
clicks that I do in image button. What I want is that only opens one popup
at a time. That when it's already one open, this closes and open a new
popup.

For that I have a .JS file that have this:
-------------------------------------------------
var NewWnd = null;

function DestroyWnd()
{
// close the current window
if(this.NewWnd != null)
{
this.NewWnd.close();
this.NewWnd = null;
}
}

function pick(Year,Month,Day)
{
if((this.NewWnd == null) || (this.NewWnd.closed))
{
var url = "Calendar.aspx?srcA=" + Year + "&srcM=" + Month + "&srcD=" + Day
this.NewWnd = window.open(url, "_blank", "height=200, width=200, left=250,
top=200, " +
"location=no, menubar=no, resizable=no, " +
"scrollbars=no, titlebar=no, toolbar=no", true);
}
else
{
DestroyWnd();
pick(Year,Month,Day);
}
}
-------------------------------------------------

Because buttons do postback my .JS variable (NewWnd) is reset and never
mantain the value of window.
How can I solve this?

I don't see any relation to VB.NET programming...

--
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

[ruca]

Anyone want to sugest something useful for my problem? I appreciate your
help.
--
Programming ASP.NET with VB.NET
Thank's (if you try to help me)
Hope this help you (if I try to help you)
ruca

"ruca" <ru***@iol.pt> escreveu na mensagem
news:ea**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Hi,

DESCRIPTION:
I'm developing an application that when I need to insert a date, I use 3
textbox's and one image button. This image button open's a small popup
window with a calendar, allowing user choose date. Then, this popup returns the year, month and day to the correspondent textbox. So far, so good.

PROBLEM:
The problem is that the applications opens so popup's as the number of
clicks that I do in image button. What I want is that only opens one popup
at a time. That when it's already one open, this closes and open a new
popup.

For that I have a .JS file that have this:
-------------------------------------------------
var NewWnd = null;

function DestroyWnd()
{
// close the current window
if(this.NewWnd != null)
{
this.NewWnd.close();
this.NewWnd = null;
}
}

function pick(Year,Month,Day)
{
if((this.NewWnd == null) || (this.NewWnd.closed))
{
var url = "Calendar.aspx?srcA=" + Year + "&srcM=" + Month + "&srcD=" + Day this.NewWnd = window.open(url, "_blank", "height=200, width=200, left=250, top=200, " +
"location=no, menubar=no, resizable=no, " +
"scrollbars=no, titlebar=no, toolbar=no", true);
}
else
{
DestroyWnd();
pick(Year,Month,Day);
}
}
-------------------------------------------------

Because buttons do postback my .JS variable (NewWnd) is reset and never
mantain the value of window.
How can I solve this?
--
Programming ASP.NET with VB.NET
Thank's (if you try to help me)
Hope this help you (if I try to help you)
ruca

[Cor Ligthert]

Hi Ruca,

What I do not understand why it should be such an anoying popup windows.
Most people have a popup killer.

This can be nicely done by creating an area on your form where that calender
control is in and you hide another control and after that you hide the
calender control again.

Now you are taking a lot of work doing that what most people hate.

Just my thought,

Cor

[Patrick Delifer]

HI Ruca,

why don't you try to disable the button if the window is already open?

"ruca" <ru***@iol.pt> wrote in message
news:ea**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Hi,

DESCRIPTION:
I'm developing an application that when I need to insert a date, I use 3
textbox's and one image button. This image button open's a small popup
window with a calendar, allowing user choose date. Then, this popup returns the year, month and day to the correspondent textbox. So far, so good.

PROBLEM:
The problem is that the applications opens so popup's as the number of
clicks that I do in image button. What I want is that only opens one popup
at a time. That when it's already one open, this closes and open a new
popup.

For that I have a .JS file that have this:
-------------------------------------------------
var NewWnd = null;

function DestroyWnd()
{
// close the current window
if(this.NewWnd != null)
{
this.NewWnd.close();
this.NewWnd = null;
}
}

function pick(Year,Month,Day)
{
if((this.NewWnd == null) || (this.NewWnd.closed))
{
var url = "Calendar.aspx?srcA=" + Year + "&srcM=" + Month + "&srcD=" + Day this.NewWnd = window.open(url, "_blank", "height=200, width=200, left=250, top=200, " +
"location=no, menubar=no, resizable=no, " +
"scrollbars=no, titlebar=no, toolbar=no", true);
}
else
{
DestroyWnd();
pick(Year,Month,Day);
}
}
-------------------------------------------------

Because buttons do postback my .JS variable (NewWnd) is reset and never
mantain the value of window.
How can I solve this?
--
Programming ASP.NET with VB.NET
Thank's (if you try to help me)
Hope this help you (if I try to help you)
ruca

[Jim M]

Then how do you make the nice little area modal. Programmers usually want
to force an input. Is there a way to do this with an area on the page?

Thanks,

Jim

"Cor Ligthert" <no**********@planet.nl> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Hi Ruca,

What I do not understand why it should be such an anoying popup windows.
Most people have a popup killer.

This can be nicely done by creating an area on your form where that calender control is in and you hide another control and after that you hide the
calender control again.

Now you are taking a lot of work doing that what most people hate.

Just my thought,

Cor

[Cor Ligthert]

> Then how do you make the nice little area modal. Programmers usually want

to force an input. Is there a way to do this with an area on the page?

Why not?

Cor

[George Ter-Saakov]

Just FYI:
Popup killers will kill popup window only if it served from another domain.
If it's served from the same domain of the original URL then Popup killers
will let it through.
So do not worry about it.

George.
"Jim M" <an********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Then how do you make the nice little area modal. Programmers usually want
to force an input. Is there a way to do this with an area on the page?

Thanks,

Jim

"Cor Ligthert" <no**********@planet.nl> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Hi Ruca,

What I do not understand why it should be such an anoying popup windows.
Most people have a popup killer.

This can be nicely done by creating an area on your form where that

calender

control is in and you hide another control and after that you hide the
calender control again.

Now you are taking a lot of work doing that what most people hate.

Just my thought,

Cor

[Cor Ligthert]

Hi George,

Just FYI:
Popup killers will kill popup window only if it served from another domain. If it's served from the same domain of the original URL then Popup killers
will let it through.
So do not worry about it.

I told that most people do not like the use of popup screens and especially
in a Web situation.
They use Popup killers, that it is not killed does not make that people like
them.

Reason, you have always to click them away when you have used them and they
appear always on the place where is the information you need to type in the
answer. While it is not something that appears on another monitor you can
put it in aspx as well fixed in the same window.

However just my idea about this

Cor

[George Ter-Saakov]

I was not referring to your comments.
I was just stating that pop ups are ok to use even if 90% people using popup
killers.
Also i would like to notice that it's matter of personal preferences of
liking and not liking popups.

I have not seen any study on that but from my own experience popup(s) are ok
if they are logically fit into the application.

I have simple example.
On my site people can enter HTML message and at some point the might want to
embed image into text.
I think it's a good choice to popup a small window to allow them upload
image rather than navigating away from text they entered and having them
worried that all they have entered so far is lost because they did not click
submit button.

George.

"Cor Ligthert" <no**********@planet.nl> wrote in message
news:uN**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Hi George,

Just FYI:
Popup killers will kill popup window only if it served from another domain.

If it's served from the same domain of the original URL then Popup killers will let it through.
So do not worry about it.

I told that most people do not like the use of popup screens and

especially in a Web situation.
They use Popup killers, that it is not killed does not make that people like them.

Reason, you have always to click them away when you have used them and they appear always on the place where is the information you need to type in the answer. While it is not something that appears on another monitor you can
put it in aspx as well fixed in the same window.

However just my idea about this

Cor

[Cor Ligthert]

Hi George,

I did not say you have to add a new pag, I think it is better to use a part
of the page as a special area for that. (And I am not talking about plain
html or asp, I am talking about serverside aspx applications)

And I said consequently that it is just my thought.

Cor

[Scott M.]

Fix your system clock.
"Jim M" <an********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...

Then how do you make the nice little area modal. Programmers usually want
to force an input. Is there a way to do this with an area on the page?

Thanks,

Jim

"Cor Ligthert" <no**********@planet.nl> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Hi Ruca,

What I do not understand why it should be such an anoying popup windows.
Most people have a popup killer.

This can be nicely done by creating an area on your form where that

calender

control is in and you hide another control and after that you hide the
calender control again.

Now you are taking a lot of work doing that what most people hate.

Just my thought,

Cor

[Vidar Petursson]

Hi

No need to check... give it a name

window.open("pageToGo.aspx","myCalendarWin","Windo w SPECS");

This will reuse window if already open

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"ruca" <ru***@iol.pt> wrote in message
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Hi,

DESCRIPTION:
I'm developing an application that when I need to insert a date, I use 3
textbox's and one image button. This image button open's a small popup
window with a calendar, allowing user choose date. Then, this popup
returns
the year, month and day to the correspondent textbox. So far, so good.

PROBLEM:
The problem is that the applications opens so popup's as the number of
clicks that I do in image button. What I want is that only opens one popup
at a time. That when it's already one open, this closes and open a new
popup.

For that I have a .JS file that have this:
-------------------------------------------------
var NewWnd = null;

function DestroyWnd()
{
// close the current window
if(this.NewWnd != null)
{
this.NewWnd.close();
this.NewWnd = null;
}
}

function pick(Year,Month,Day)
{
if((this.NewWnd == null) || (this.NewWnd.closed))
{
var url = "Calendar.aspx?srcA=" + Year + "&srcM=" + Month + "&srcD=" +
Day
this.NewWnd = window.open(url, "_blank", "height=200, width=200,
left=250,
top=200, " +
"location=no, menubar=no, resizable=no, " +
"scrollbars=no, titlebar=no, toolbar=no", true);
}
else
{
DestroyWnd();
pick(Year,Month,Day);
}
}
-------------------------------------------------

Because buttons do postback my .JS variable (NewWnd) is reset and never
mantain the value of window.
How can I solve this?
--
Programming ASP.NET with VB.NET
Thank's (if you try to help me)
Hope this help you (if I try to help you)
ruca