refresh another window

[anarchist]

this is a simple question at least it should be

I have a window that opens a popup which will then open another popup and close its self
the third window needs to refresh the first (also a named popup)

one method that should work would be window.opener.opener.refresh, however window.opener closed itself on creation of window thus breaking this possable link

I tried windowname.refresh() however this seemed to fail, is there another method that I've missed or does it appear to be as simple as getting the window name wrong?

[Khalid Ali]

I doubt that you can target an orphan popup window,but I could be wrong.
Logically when there is no centralised source that knows about a window then there is no way for JavaScript to ask Operating System to give it the reference to any or none popups opened in a system.

[anarchist]

thanks

its always good to know that the reason my codes not working's because I'm trying to do the imposable :) well last time I said something was impossable we figured it out, actually think it was the last 2 times (do I sound pessimistic?)

I'll keep trying as its quite important that it works

I assume windows knows all about what windows are about just doesnt give javascript access, as a target= on a link will open a new window or reuse an old one, and the same with a window.open I thnk

do you think I could make the window I need to refresh adopt my new window?

oldwin -> opens midwin
midwin -> opens newwin
newwin.opener=midwin.opener
midwin -> closes self
newwim -> refreshes oldwin

do you think this is possable or is the opener property read only?

going to try it now

[Khalid Ali]

Interesting bit...I think it might work..try and let me know too

[anarchist]

hey it worked :)

I've attached my test code, all very basic but it does the job.
unfortuanatly I have to figure out how to use it now in a very complex web application