Creating an auto link out of a popup

[gecks]

Hi

I'm a little stuck with this one... What I have done so far is to use java to open a popup window that has a flash game in it from a main page.

Now what I want todo is when the player has run out of money/what ever, that the popup window closes its self down and uses the original window (the one where the link to the popup window was placed) and go to a different page in that browser window, any help would be really really appreciated..

If its been difficult trying to understand what I have written, I'm really sorry but my english is terrible.

Thanks alot GRANT

[swon]

You use flash in your window? When the player looses or anything else the window should close and the parent window goes to another location, am I right?

You can call from flash a javascript function like:

<script language="javascript">
function closeandlocate()
{
var w = window.opener;
w.location.href = "newpage.html"; // the page where parent window have to locate
window.close();// closes the actually window
}
</script>

I don't know how to call the function in flash, but I know it's possible

[gecks]

Originally posted by swon
You use flash in your window? When the player looses or anything else the window should close and the parent window goes to another location, am I right?

You can call from flash a javascript function like:

<script language="javascript">
function closeandlocate()
{
var w = window.opener;
w.location.href = "newpage.html"; // the page where parent window have to locate
window.close();// closes the actually window
}
</script>

I don't know how to call the function in flash, but I know it's possible

:) thanks Swon, I'll have to research a little bit, but thats great.. thanks

[gecks]

Originally posted by gecks
:) thanks Swon, I'll have to research a little bit, but thats great.. thanks

Cool.... I've found a way to do it but without goign through the flash,

<b>Within the original window: </b>

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
function newWindow(file,window) {
msgWindow=open(file,window,'resizable=no,width=200,height=200');
if (msgWindow.opener == null) msgWindow.opener = self;
}
//--></script>

<form>
<input type="button" value="Open New Window" onClick="newWindow('a.html','window2')">
</form>


<b>Within the new window:</b>

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
function load(file,target) {
if (target != '')
target.window.location.href = file;
else
window.location.href = file;
}
//--></script>

<a href="javascript:load('b.html',top.opener)">load document into opener</a>
<p>
<a href="javascript:load('b.html','')">load document</a>

but now I have a different problem. that when trying this function in a frameset it doesn't work and I imagine that is due to that fact that the opener for a frame isn't the same as the opener for a window. is there a way to change the target?

Gecks::confused:

[swon]

Back again,

for frames you must give the frame-specified name:

if you have 2 frames for example:

<frame name="top" src="topsite.php">
<frame name="main" src="mainsite.php">

the top frame is called by:

var t = parent.top; //as the name of the topframe
//not sure, maybe var t = window.opener.parent.top; check it out!
t.location.href = "newlocation.php";

the same for the main frame
I think that could works!