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]

Re: Modal Window in Firefox

Smellyfrog wrote:

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> 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?[/color]

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=d ocument.getSele ction();if(!Qr) {void(Qr=prompt ('Look up
this word at
yourDictionary. com:',''))};if( Qr)w=window.ope n('http://www.yourdiction ary.com:80/cgi-bin/lkupbttn.cgi?dl ookup='+escape( Qr),'yourDictio nary','width=48 0,height=400,to p=0,left=0,scro llbars=yes,resi zable=yes,modal =yes');w.focus( );

Mike

[Smellyfrog]

Re: Modal Window in Firefox

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 <mscir@access4l ess.net> wrote in message news:<10oimvd5d 238j83@corp.sup ernews.com>...[color=blue]
> Smellyfrog wrote:
>
> <snip>
>[color=green]
> > 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?[/color]
>
> 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=d ocument.getSele ction();if(!Qr) {void(Qr=prompt ('Look up
> this word at
> yourDictionary. com:',''))};if( Qr)w=window.ope n('http://www.yourdiction ary.com:80/cgi-bin/lkupbttn.cgi?dl ookup='+escape( Qr),'yourDictio nary','width=48 0,height=400,to p=0,left=0,scro llbars=yes,resi zable=yes,modal =yes');w.focus( );
>
> Mike[/color]

[mscir]

Re: Modal Window in Firefox

Smellyfrog wrote:
[color=blue]
> 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.[/color]

Hi Yannick,

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

Mike