There are a couple of things I'm not quite getting:
1) how do you invoke this from Flex?
2) what do you mean by your "wrapper"?
I understand the code below but I am still not really clear how it
gets invoked. Sorry for being so dim :-(
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Tracy Spratt" <tspr...@...> wrote:
>
> I handle this by having a js function in my wrapper create the new
> window, with the parameters I need, then using externalInterface to
> invoke the js function.
>
> This has an additional benefit of allowing me to make the same window
> show different content from flex(I haven't figured out how to do this
> with navigateToURL directly). Here is the javascript I am using:
>
> Tracy
>
> var windowHelp;
> function showHelp(sURL)
> {
> if (windowHelp && windowHelp.open && !windowHelp.closed) { //Be
> SURE the window is available
> if (sURL != sLastURL && sURL.length > 0) { //If
> user wants a new url
> windowHelp.location.href = sURL;
> //navigate
> sLastURL = sURL;
> }
> windowHelp.focus();
> //always focus
> }
> else {
> if (sURL.length > 0) {
> //make sure we have an url
> var iBorderWidth = 50;
> var iLeft = window.screenLeft;
> var iTop = window.screenTop;
> var iWidth = document.body.offsetWidth;
> var iHeight = document.body.offsetHeight;
>
> var sWindowProperties =
> "location=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,menubar=no,resizable=yes"
> sWindowProperties += ",top=" + (iTop + iBorderWidth);
> sWindowProperties += ",left=" + (iLeft + iBorderWidth);
> sWindowProperties += ",height=500";
> sWindowProperties += ",width=400";
> windowHelp = window.open(sURL,'Help',sWindowProperties);
> sLastURL = sURL;
> }
> }
> }//showHelp
>
>
> From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On
> Behalf Of simonjpalmer
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 10:11 AM
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [flexcoders] Controlling browser window state during
> navigateToURL
>
> Hi,
>
> I want to place a link on my app which starts a static HTML help page
> in a new broswer window and I want to control the appearance of the
> browser window that gets created. If I were doing this in HTML I
> would use JavaScript window.open and set the config parameter, e.g.
>
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">
> <!--
> window.open ('titlepage.html', 'newwindow', config='height=100,
> width=400, toolbar=no, menubar=no, scrollbars=no, resizable=no,
> location=no, directories=no, status=no')
> -->
> </SCRIPT>
>
> Is there a way of doing this in Flex (specifically Flex 2)?
>
> TIA
> Simon
>
