closing a window

[Blake Macon]

I have a JSP page which allows you to select some data sets, the click
a button that puts the data together on the server side then downloads
it to the remote end. when the user clicks on the download button I
have a window open that says "Compiling Data...".

I want the window to close when the download is finished. I named the
window and put some Javascript in the download servlet to close it,
but it won;t close. Any idea how i can do this?

[BJay]

Re: closing a window

macon@itd.nrl.n avy.mil (Blake Macon) wrote in message news:<8e7e15e5. 0311141304.4176 95c1@posting.go ogle.com>...[color=blue]
> I have a JSP page which allows you to select some data sets, the click
> a button that puts the data together on the server side then downloads
> it to the remote end. when the user clicks on the download button I
> have a window open that says "Compiling Data...".
>
> I want the window to close when the download is finished. I named the
> window and put some Javascript in the download servlet to close it,
> but it won;t close. Any idea how i can do this?[/color]

if you opened the window using something like
a = window.open("hr ef")
you could try
a.close()

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: closing a window

Blake Macon wrote:
[color=blue]
> I have a JSP page which allows you to select some data sets, the click a
> button that puts the data together on the server side then downloads it
> to the remote end. when the user clicks on the download button I have a
> window open that says "Compiling Data...".
>
> I want the window to close when the download is finished.[/color]

Unless you are talking about an (X)HTML document downloaded to be displayed
with the user agent (UA) afterwards you cannot determine when the download
is finished. And even then you depend on what the UA considers a complete
download of the document, i.e. whether this includes all images to be
downloaded or only the markup to be rendered.
[color=blue]
> I named the window and put some Javascript in the download servlet to
> close it, but it won;t close.[/color]

Source code?



PointedEars