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baggy - 31 Aug 2005 14:13 GMT

Hi,
I have a situation where I need to be able to refresh a windows parent
parent. I can not seem to use anything like

window.opener.parent.location.reload()

as by the time I execute the statement the parent has closed and all
connections closed and I am not even sure that would work!

Is there a way to reference a window to refresh it other than by using
window.parent or window.opener.

Thanks
Baggy

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ASM - 31 Aug 2005 14:43 GMT

> Hi,
> I have a situation where I need to be able to refresh a windows parent
> parent. I can not seem to use anything like
>
> window.opener.parent.location.reload()

if parent.parent is the frameset itself :

opener.location=opener.location

if not, you call directly the frame by its name :

opener.myFrame.location = ...

(I think there is no importance if this frame is in a frameset
itself in top frameset - to verify ?)

> as by the time I execute the statement the parent has closed

You can't close a window it it hasn't be opened by window.open()
did your 'parent' be ?

but you can know if is yet opened

alert(!!opener)
or
if(!!opener) alert('yes'); else alert('no');

> and all
> connections closed and I am not even sure that would work!
>
> Is there a way to reference a window to refresh it other than by using
> window.parent or window.opener.

I think it's the only way each one can know each other

communication between 3 windows (mother + 2 daughters)
simple demo in french (open, exist?, close, messages) :
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/stephane.moriaux/truc/popup_oui_non/
(not really necessary to understand very more than yes no)
If mother of 2 daughters is closed anything work

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