Methods to get a reference to a child window

[SteveKlett@gmail.com]

I'm using a on-demand, SaS ERp application. I would like to customize
a few aspects of the application and I can as they have the ability to
"deploy" custom scripts with the served up pages.

One of the things that the page does it open a popup child window. I
can't directly hook into this process and get a reference to the
popped window, but I need to.

Are there any techniques to detect when a window opens another window?

It looks like the Window object doesn't have a collection of child
Windows, so I can't check that.. I really don't know what other
options there are.

I found one thread on google that covers this question and the answer
was "no" but it was pretty old thread, maybe something has changed?

In a nutshell, I need to detect when a new window opens up. Is that
possible and if so... can you give me some hints how it's
accomplished?

Thanks,
Steve

[Joost Diepenmaat]

Re: Methods to get a reference to a child window

"SteveKlett@gma il.com" <SteveKlett@gma il.comwrites:

In a nutshell, I need to detect when a new window opens up. Is that
possible and if so... can you give me some hints how it's
accomplished?

*if* the script opens a new window using window.open(), you *might* be
able to replace that method with something of your liking:

var oldopen = window.open;
function open() {
var win = oldopen.apply(w indow,arguments );
// do something here
return win; // return to calling code
}

This is completely untested and unresearched code.

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[Joost Diepenmaat]

Re: Methods to get a reference to a child window

"SteveKlett@gma il.com" <SteveKlett@gma il.comwrites:

So I would basically be hijacking the built in method, I like it! ;0)
>
Thanks for the suggestion, I will check this out.

It should work, the main issue is that AFAIK browsers *may* make those
methods read-only. I'd be interested to know if it works on the usual
systems :-)

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Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/

[Laurent vilday]

Re: Methods to get a reference to a child window

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn a écrit :

Joost Diepenmaat wrote:

>I'd be interested to know if it works on the usual systems :-)

>
I wouldn't.

Do you really think anyone care about what you are or not interested ?

Please get real and go consult a psychiatrist while you are at it !

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laurent