I have a Flex 2.0 app that has to open a URL used to "configure" a shopping cart item. When finished configuring an item and you return to Flex, Flex calls a web service to retrieve the item configuration and all is good.
Currently, I'm opening a new browser window using navigateToURL() with "_blank" for the target. This presents a couple of problems: 1) When the item configuration is done and the window is closed (using Javascript) I get the annoying "The webpage you are using is trying to close the window" and you have to verify that you want to close the window. 2) I don't have any good way to detect the window was closed and then fire off the web service to get the item configuration -- I basically have to wait for the user to do something back in the Flex app that causes an event to fire that I can trigger on. (I'm currently using the focusOut event of the Quantity field in the item data grid, but there's no guarantee the user will click/tab into a quantity field and then back out after configuring an item...) So, does anyone know of a way I could open a new window/url for the item configuration, but then return to the Flex app without the "Do you want to close this window?" dialog box AND in a way that would fire a Flex event I can use to trigger the web service call? I don't have any control over the "item configuration" URL/code -- it's a 3rd party application I'm integrating with... Thanks in advance for any insight/help!
