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  • Clive Moore
    #1

    focus word plugin

    I am trying to grab the focus of a popup window with a word plugin
    showing a rtf document using the following code.

    viewerWindow = window.open("65 64641.rtf", "test");
    viewerWindow.fo cus();

    Unfortunately i get an error "member not found" when focus() is called.
    The same code works perfect with.

    viewerWindow = window.open("te st.html", "test");
    viewerWindow.fo cus();

    Any Ideas?

    Thanks.

    Clive


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    • Lee
      #2
      Re: focus word plugin

      Clive Moore said:[color=blue]
      >
      >I am trying to grab the focus of a popup window with a word plugin
      >showing a rtf document using the following code.
      >
      >viewerWindow = window.open("65 64641.rtf", "test");
      >viewerWindow.f ocus();[/color]

      The window.open() call returns before the window actually
      exists. You might never notice that with HTML pages, but
      Word documents take longer to open.

      You'll probably want a delay loop that checks to see if
      the focus() method exists, and invoke it when it does.

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        • Grant Wagner
          #3
          Re: focus word plugin

          Clive Moore wrote:
          [color=blue]
          > I am trying to grab the focus of a popup window with a word plugin
          > showing a rtf document using the following code.
          >
          > viewerWindow = window.open("65 64641.rtf", "test");
          > viewerWindow.fo cus();[/color]

          In this case, viewWindows is pretty much a reference to an instance of Word
          (or some other application that can load RTF files inline in IE). You can't
          script local applications.
          [color=blue]
          > Unfortunately i get an error "member not found" when focus() is called.
          > The same code works perfect with.
          >
          > viewerWindow = window.open("te st.html", "test");
          > viewerWindow.fo cus();[/color]

          In this case, viewWindow is a reference to an instance of an IE browser
          window you opened and until you load it with content from another domain,
          would be fully scriptable.
          [color=blue]
          > Any Ideas?[/color]

          Create an HTML file that sets the location.href of an embedded <iframe>:

          <body
          onload="window. frames['test'].location.href= 'path/to/your/file.ext';">
          <iframe name="test" src="about:blan k" height="400" width="600"></iframe>

          Now simply change the client-side JavaScript from using a hard-coded path
          to using a path you pass to it:

          var viewerWindow =
          window.open('vi ewerHtml.html?p ath=path/to/your/file.ext', 'test');
          viewerWindow.fo cus();

          If you really plan on doing this, I'd recommend doing it using server-side
          technology:

          <iframe name="test" src="<%= Request.Value(' path') %>" height="400"
          width="600"></iframe>

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          Grant Wagner <gwagner@agrico reunited.com>
          comp.lang.javas cript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq

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            • Clive Moore
              #4
              Re: focus word plugin

              As a workarround for the problem i now store the viewerWindow
              inside a global variable. Now i call viewerWindow.cl ose() before i
              reopen the window with the window.open() function.

              Thanks for your help
              regards
              Clive




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