Maybe eventually I'll move to that. I'm all for using your idea, but
this is stage 1 of a several stage development program for this
company.
For those wondering, we moved all of our Prototype/Script.aculo.us
files from "support" into a "js" folder....and then didn't update part
of the source code....
On Sep 20, 2:52 pm, "jason maina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In the parent page/window you could have an invisible div then use
> ajax.request to update the div with desired data and seem to popup by
> setting visibility=true
>
> On 9/20/08, Bobby.D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > Ok, I was just checking about the popup, I thought perhaps using the
> > function to open would screw stuff up. I am designing an Intranet
> > Business Web App, restricted to 1 browser. If I was going to use a
> > "lightbox" effect I'd just open a whole new page, but I'm trying to
> > give the app a slightly more desktop feel.
>
> > On Sep 20, 1:49 pm, bluezehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Can I please, please beg of you not to use a popup window. It's ugly.
> >> Most browsers just block them anyway so it's useless.
>
> >> You've got to remember as well that a popup window is a COMPLETELY
> >> separate browser instance. You can't access any variables at all from
> >> the source window, and prototype/scriptaculous will not be available
> >> unless they're included in the source of the popup.
>
> >> Much much better is to bring up a fixed positioned div floated above
> >> everything else on the page. Google prototip to see what I mean - and
> >> they don't have to be "tooltips" either, they can be full on windows
> >> over the rest of your page - see the other project by the author of
> >> prototip, think it's called lightbox, to see what I mean.
>
> >> Other than that advice, your question is way too vague to be able to
> >> answer it. If you have prototype in the source of the popup window,
> >> ajax will be available just as it otherwise would be - either you
> >> haven't included prototype or there's an error in your code, in which
> >> case the fact that it's running in a popup window is completely
> >> irrelevant.
>
> >> On Sep 20, 5:46 pm, "Bobby.D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >> > I'm using the following function to generate a pop up box:
>
> >> > var win=null;
> >> > function popUp(page, name, w, h, scrollb) {
> >> > var winL = (screen.width-w)/2;
> >> > var winT = (screen.height-h)/3.5;
> >> > var settings = 'height='+h+',';
> >> > settings += 'width='+w+',';
> >> > settings += 'top='+winT+',';
> >> > settings += 'left='+winL+',';
> >> > settings += 'resizable=no';
> >> > settings += 'scrollbars='+scrollb+',';
> >> > settings += 'toolbar=no';
> >> > settings += 'menubar=no';
> >> > window.open(page, name, settings);
>
> >> > }
>
> >> > I use the following link to open:
>
> >> > <a href="#" onclick="popUp('initiate.php', 'Initiate Case', '600',
> >> > '600', 'no')"><img src="images/initiateCase.png" alt="Initiate Case" /
>
> >> > ></a>
>
> >> > The popup works, however, I can't get ANY AJAX to work on the pop up.
> >> > I'm successfully loading several Spry Assets, I can't figure out why I
> >> > can' get any of the AJAX to work.
>
> >> > I'm using an Updater to display a dynamically generated number from a
> >> > PHP page. When I pull the php page up, it is working properly....but
> >> > no update.
>
> >> > Could it be because of the way I'm opening the page?
>
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