Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-27 Thread biju george
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RE: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-24 Thread Tim Welford
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John R. Sweeney Jr Sent: 24 January 2006 00:28 To: Lingo programming discussion list Subject: Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground on 1/23/06 3:17 PM, Valentin Schmidt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: baCloseApp( WinHandle ) would kill the app, but I wouldn't recommend

Re[2]: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-23 Thread Duck
Monday, January 23, 2006, 12:28:15 AM, John wrote: JRSJ on 1/22/06 5:26 PM, Neil at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried having some simple javascript in your html page? JRSJ These are all different commerical websites. I can't do anything server JRSJ side. It has to be in(on) my CD. How

Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-23 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr
on 1/23/06 3:23 AM, Tim Welford at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This will produce better results, especially when you have multiple internet browser windows open. Alternativly, you could create a small html page with an auto forward javascript script in the distribution of your movie, call your

Re: Re[2]: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-23 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr
on 1/23/06 3:44 AM, Duck at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then wait a moment, giving the window a chance to open, then call some javascript: gotoNetPage(javascript:windowName.focus()) Doesn't the JavaScript have to be placed in the html page that you are calling? These are commercial websites

Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-23 Thread Stephen Ingrum
Win2k, Firefox IE simple gotoNetPage(http://www.macromedia.com;, ), and baGetUrl(http://www.macromedia.com;, Normal) both work as wanted (bringing themselves forward each time). In fact, I can't get it to fail. Are you doing anything special with the Director window? (Stay on Top, ???) HTH,

RE: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-23 Thread Tim Welford
I don't TBH, but you can find a compatibility list here: http://www.mods.com.au/frameset.htm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John R. Sweeney Jr Sent: 23 January 2006 14:18 To: Lingo programming discussion list Subject: Re: lingo-l Bringing

Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-23 Thread Kevin M. Dean
On Jan 23, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Randal Hunting wrote: At 6:28 PM -0600 1/22/06, John R. Sweeney Jr wrote: on 1/22/06 5:26 PM, Neil at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John... Have you tried having some simple javascript in your html page? You could use something like body onload=self.focus() That

Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-23 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr
on 1/23/06 9:05 AM, Stephen Ingrum at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, I can't get it to fail. Are you doing anything special with the Director window? (Stay on Top, ???) HTH, Stephen Nope. We are testing on WinXP and I've had three friends try it with FireFox and all three have the

Re: Re[2]: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-23 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr
on 1/23/06 9:51 AM, Valentin Schmidt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK the JS-focus() idea wouldn't really help, because in firefox window.focus() only gives focus to a window IN THE REALM of the browser, but it doesn't steal the focus from other applications (I think that's differenet with

Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-23 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr
on 1/23/06 10:20 AM, Kevin M. Dean at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could have an html with the following: SCRIPT type=text/javascript focus(); window.location.replace(http://www.yoururl.com/;) /SCRIPT That gives that page the focus in the browser, but its still behind Director. :(

Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-23 Thread Mark Hagers
On 23-jan-2006, at 18:27, John R. Sweeney Jr wrote: Nope. We are testing on WinXP and I've had three friends try it with FireFox and all three have the same problem. Browser comes to foreground the first time, but alt-tab back to director and make another selection and the browser loads

Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-23 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr
on 1/23/06 2:19 PM, Mark Hagers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more thing to try (but it's what we call in dutch a 'horse remedy'): if the user's browser is firefox, test to see if it's currently active, and kill it's process before calling gotonetpage (or baOpenUrl). Not exactly playing

Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-23 Thread Valentin Schmidt
John R. Sweeney Jr wrote: on 1/23/06 2:19 PM, Mark Hagers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One more thing to try (but it's what we call in dutch a 'horse remedy'): if the user's browser is firefox, test to see if it's currently active, and kill it's process before calling gotonetpage (or

Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-23 Thread Mark Hagers
On 23-jan-2006, at 21:35, John R. Sweeney Jr wrote: How would you go about killing the process? masterapp Xtra has a function for that, as has Buddy API On 23-jan-2006, at 22:17, Valentin Schmidt wrote: baCloseApp( WinHandle ) would kill the app, but I wouldn't recommend this, as the user

Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-23 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr
on 1/23/06 3:17 PM, Valentin Schmidt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: baCloseApp( WinHandle ) would kill the app, but I wouldn't recommend this, as the user might be pissed if he had other important browser windows (or tabs) opened. Valentin I know. :( Thought of that one already. :) John

Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-23 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr
on 1/23/06 3:31 PM, Mark Hagers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why I called it a horses remedy ;-) Clients. We can't live without them and we can't SHOOT them. :) Thanks, John === John R. Sweeney Jr.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Interactive

lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-22 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr
Howdy all, I'm using the standard gotoNetPage(myURL) to launch a couple of weblinks. In IE it works everytime correctly. With FireFox (on a PC), the first call launches the browser just fine in foreground. Then if a user clicks on the task bar back to my program and clicks another link, the site

Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-22 Thread Valentin Schmidt
John R. Sweeney Jr wrote: Howdy all, I'm using the standard gotoNetPage(myURL) to launch a couple of weblinks. In IE it works everytime correctly. With FireFox (on a PC), the first call launches the browser just fine in foreground. Then if a user clicks on the task bar back to my program and

RE: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-22 Thread Russell Mead
list Subject: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground Howdy all, I'm using the standard gotoNetPage(myURL) to launch a couple of weblinks. In IE it works everytime correctly. With FireFox (on a PC), the first call launches the browser just fine in foreground. Then if a user clicks on the task bar

Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-22 Thread Mark Hagers
On 22-jan-2006, at 21:23, John R. Sweeney Jr wrote: I'm using the standard gotoNetPage(myURL) to launch a couple of weblinks. In IE it works everytime correctly. With FireFox (on a PC), the first call launches the browser just fine in foreground. Then if a user clicks on the task bar back

Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-22 Thread Mark Hagers
If you bring the browser's active window to the front immediately *after* issuing a baOpenUrl call, that window should contain the webpage you just opened. Is this not what you're seeing? regards, On 23-jan-2006, at 0:02, John R. Sweeney Jr wrote: Works for awhile, but then if another

Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-22 Thread John R. Sweeney Jr
on 1/22/06 5:26 PM, Mark Hagers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you bring the browser's active window to the front immediately *after* issuing a baOpenUrl call, that window should contain the webpage you just opened. Is this not what you're seeing? Same intermittent results. :(

Re: lingo-l Bringing Webpage to Foreground

2006-01-22 Thread Mark Hagers
Do you have Firefox set to open url requests from other apps in a new window, or the active window? (can be set somewhere in prefs) What happens if you change that setting? (won't help much, I know, just wondering) On 23-jan-2006, at 0:29, John R. Sweeney Jr wrote: Is this not what you're