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Users catch it right away when you cut a known feature like right-click
"open in new window". Please use an applet/activex control to do what you need
and leave the browser alone. If you do customize it, change icons and
look-and-feel enough so IT doesn't get a million calls about why their
browser isn't working anymore.
$.02
tom mallard
seattle
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 2:18
AM
Subject: Re: limiting browser
windows
At 21:24 20/01/2001 +0000, Chad Birely wrote:
Hello. I would like to limit
the number of browser windows to one. I
haven't been able to find a
way to do this through XUL, so I've started
looking through the
source. I'm guessing that there's some function
that is always
called to create a new browser window. The plan is to
have this
function return the current window if another widow is
requested.
Does this seem like a reasonable course of action? My best
guess is
that I need to deal with nsGlobalWindow, but my search for a
factory or
something of that sort hasn't panned out. Can anyone make
some
suggestions as to how I can go about acomplishing this? I'm
having
trouble piecing together what happens when a browser window is
created.
Thanks.
Aaron
Having done this I can give
you the code if you'd like. You're right in that nsGlobalWindow is the
level to do it at. OpenInternal is the function which checks whether to open a
new window or not. The method I used was to assign the same name to
window regardless of the window name passed in. In my case I used
"_content".
That's fine and it stops windows opening completely,
but there are a number of side effects which is the reason I haven't
contributed.
1. Dialogs have to be renamed as a known name so
that they can still be opened as a new window, I chose "_dialog".
2.
In some cases javascript that opens a new window and then is called by a core
window js code will fail because the document won't have finished
loading.
3. Creating a new window legitamately, i.e. File|New
Window will create the chrome and window within the current
window. This isn't so bad and could be fixed fairly
easily.
Simon
Beware knowledge
cheaply gained for in the spending of it you may pay more than its
worth.
S. P. Lucy
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