JavaScript - Focus A Window(not A Webpage)

I have an application I'm working on and here is what I'm trying to do:

I want users to work from a main application. Certain things will need to be done but the users wont want to see the main screen go away while doing these certain things. So my idea is to just open a new window with the content they need, they'll make their changes, the new window will close but then I want the main page to reload.

What I've done now is at the end of the script that will be run prior to the new window closing is added this (its a php app):
Code:

echo "<script>window.close();</script>";
echo "<script>window.opener.location.reload(true);</script>";

Sometimes this works in IE and Firefox but never in Chrome. I know I've seen this done before on other sites, but I cant think of what they are.

Can anyone tell me a reliable way that works in all browsers?

I am trying to write a javascript to open multiple websites in the same window for Internet Explorer. However I keep getting the website opening in a new window.

Here is my code.

Code:

var url = [
"http://www.google.com",
"http://www.yahoo.com",
"http://www.msn.com"
];

var interval = 3000;
var startTime = 0;
for (i = 0; i < url.length; i++) {
    startTime = startTime + interval;
    setTimeout("openWindow("+i+")", startTime);
}

function openWindow(num) {
	window.open(url[num],'mywindow','width=800,height=600,menubar=yes,status=yes,location=yes,toolbar=yes,scrollbars=yes');
}

So currently, this code behaves like this. Every 3 seconds, it opens up a new website. However this code I wrote opens google.com in a new window, then yahoo.com in a new window and so on.

I want it to open all the websites in the same window. How do I achieve this?

Hi

I'm banging my head against this problem and I'd really appreciate some help. I think the problem is cause by my lack of understanding of how the browser (firefox 3.6.3) handles focus.

A simplified version of my problem is:

I've defined the function
Code:

function two_focus()
        {
            document.getElementById("two").blur();
            
            alert("hello");
        }

then in the body I have the form with two text boxes
Code:

<input id="one" type="text"><input id="two" type="text" onfocus="two_focus();">

When the page is loaded and I click in the second textbox I get the alert, all well and good. I OK the alert box, but when I click on box 1, or anywhere on the page for that matter, the function is called and the alert comes up.

I just don't understand why the focus is being returned to the second box when I click anywhere in the browser window.

Any comments will be gratefully received.

Everything up until the focus line works, any ideas?

Code:

else {
	alert ("Please enter your Postcode correctly, this includes:\n \n * Correct Spacing - AA1 1AA \n * Correct amount of letters and numbers. \n \n Sorry if this causes any inconvenience, but it is to your benefit.");
	document.delAdd.postcode.value = "";
	document.delAdd.postcode.focus();}

I've got a div named "iframe_container". Inside it are an iframe used to display floor maps and another div named "compass_rose". I have a function that moves compass_rose around the map based on an office number.

Now iframe_container is scrollable, it's only big enough to display about 2/3 of the map at any one time. I designed it that way to properly fit in the sharepoint site it's going in. To help some of our less tech savvy users it would be nice if iframe_container would automatically shift its view to keep the compass_rose visible at all times. Can that be done? Thanks.

<div id="iframe_container" style="width:1000px; height:635px; position: relative; overflow:hidden">

<div id="compass_rose" style="top: 10px; left: 10px; position: absolute; z-index: 2; visibility:hidden;"><img alt="Compass Rose" src="compass_rose_animated2.gif" width="80" height="80" /></div>

<iframe id="viewer" width="1600" height="635" src="front_page2.jpg" marginwidth="1" marginheight="1" name="viewer" scrolling="no"></iframe>

</div>

Have a jsp page with 10 editable fields and in last Add Button.Now when user edit a field from value 10 to 20(example)and click on Add .Value will be changed and focus will return to the same field.similarly for other fields.how to to .any code sample?

Hi,

I need your help guys. I've got a little problem.

I have some smileys which I enter to a textarea when clicking on them. It works perfect, but once the user clicks on a smiley, the focus goes off of the textfield. I use document.getElementById('message').value += smileycode
It works perfectly, it enters the smileycode to the textarea.

My problem is... When I say document.getElementById('message').focus()
it goes back to where the cursors has last been so before the smileycode.

Instead of this, I want the focus to go back after the insertion of the code.

I hope it's understandable. And thanks in advance!

Hello,

I have a search textbox field which populates the results in a dropdown after searched.

But there is no way, to let users to explain to click or use the dropdown to see the results.. thus, I would like to have a focus on the dropdown, so after the user searches through the search textfield, and enter, the dropdown gets the focus so it will user friendly.

can anyone help me on this.
thank you in advance

Hi

I am opening a child window with the following href.

If it is a completly new window, it is opened and the focus shifts to it,
... but ...

if that href has been clicked on before and the window exists, the focus stays with the parent window and does NOT shift to the child

How can I make the focus shift ?

here is my href:


PHP Code:
echo "<a href='$Ad_detail' rel=\"external\" onclick=\"window.open (this.href, '$Ad_detail', 'height=800,width=960,scrollbars');  return false\" > 


I guess I need a "window. ??? focus();" in there somewhere - but I don't know what the ??? should be.

If you can help - many thanks

Hello,

I am researching an issue in a rather big app which displays pdf files in IE window.
The issue is that inside javascript code we call 'window.setTimeout( win.focus() ...)' (for the child window), but it doesn't come into focus every time, seems a bit random when it does and does not come into focus.

At present I wrote a much smaller app + javascript to reproduce the issue, but it does not manifest in same way.
Specifically this is the confusing part:
window.setTimeout( function() {win.focus(); win.moveTo( 200 , 200 ); } , 500 , "JavaScript" );
the 'win' does move, but never comes into focus.

Any ideas about why the focus function does not accomplish what I'm trying to do?

Here's the code of my simplified app + html + javascript:

JAVASCRIPT:
Code:

var win;

function f(s) {
   	website="http://machine/apache/jsfnu/mytest" + s + ".txt";
   	if (!win)
   		win = window.open( website , "thetest" , "toolbar=yes,resizable=yes");
   	else
   	{
   		win.url = website;
   	}
   	win.navigate(website);
   	win.focus();
   	window.setTimeout( function() {win.focus(); win.moveTo( 200 , 200 ); } , 500 , "JavaScript" );
   }
   

function emitApplet() {
document.write("<APPLET CODE=\"mytest.class\" archive=\"mytest.jar,netscape.jar\" NAME=\"myApplet\"  MAYSCRIPT HEIGHT=1000 WIDTH=1000> </APPLET>");
}

function window_onUnload()
{
}

JAVA code:
Code:

import netscape.javascript.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class mytest
extends java.applet.Applet implements ActionListener
{
	Button nextButton;
	Button prevButton;

	int _page=1;
	public void init() {
		System.err.println("init started");
		setLayout(new FlowLayout());
		System.err.println("setLayout done");
		nextButton = new Button("Next!");
		System.err.println("next button created");
		prevButton = new Button("Prev!");
		System.err.println("prev button created");
		add(prevButton);
		System.err.println("prev button added");
		add(nextButton);
		System.err.println("next button added");

		nextButton.addActionListener(this);
		System.err.println("next button action");
		prevButton.addActionListener(this);
		System.err.println("prev button created");
	}
	public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt)
	{
		if (evt.getSource() == nextButton)
		{
			doButton(++_page);
		}
		else if (evt.getSource() == prevButton)
		{
			doButton(--_page);
		}
	}
	public void doButton(int page)
	{
		JSObject win = JSObject.getWindow(this);
		JSObject doc = (JSObject) win.getMember("document");

		JSObject loc = (JSObject) doc.getMember("location");
		String s = (String) loc.getMember("href");
		String []args = new String[1];
		args[0] = (new Integer(page)).toString();
		win.call("f", args);
	}
	public void paint (java.awt.Graphics g)
	{
		g.drawString("Hello, World9!",50,25);
	}
}

HTML:
Code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="StartTest.js"> </script>
<html>
        <head>
                <title>try</title>
        </head>
        <body bgcolor="#fdf8ed" text="black" language="Javascript" onload="window_onUnload()">

                <center>
                        <script type="text/javascript">

                                        emitApplet();

                        </script>

                </center>
        </body>
</html>

Hy ! I have this form:
PHP Code:
<form name = "myform" method = "POST" action = "proba1.php">
        Name:<br /> <input type = "text" name = "name" size = "30" onBlur = "namecheck()" /><br />
        Username:<br /> <input type = "text" name = "username" size = "30" onBlur = "usercheck()" /><br />
        Password:<br /> <input type = "password" name = "password" size = "30" /><br />
        Repeat password:<br /> <input type = "password" name = "password2" size = "30" onBlur = "passcheck()"/><br />
        Email:<br /> <input type = "text" name = "email" size = "30" onBlur = "mailcheck()" /><br /><br />
       
                                <input type = "reset" name = "reset" value = "Reset" />
                                <input type = "submit" name = "submit" value = "Submit" />
                       
</form> 


and a Js file to check it:
PHP Code:
function namecheck()
{
        var name = document.myform.name.value;
                if(name.indexOf(" ") < 0)
                {
                        document.myform.name.focus();
                        document.myform.name.select();
                        alert("Pleaase enter your full name!")
                        return false;
                }
        return true;   
}

function usercheck()
{
        var username = document.myform.username.value;
                if(username.length < 6)
                {
                        alert("Username must be at least 6 chars!");
                        document.myform.name.focus();
                        document.myform.name.select();
                        return false;
                }
        return true;   
}

function passcheck()
{
        var password = document.myform.password.value;
        var password2 = document.myform.password2.value;
                if(password != password2)
                {
                        alert("The two passwords not identical!")
                }
}

function mailcheck()
{
        var mail = document.myform.email.value;
        var diff = mail.lastIndexOf(".") - mail.indexOf("@");
        var diff2 = mail.length - mail.lastIndexOf(".");
                if(mail.indexOf("@") < 0 || mail.indexOf(".") < 0 || diff < 2 || diff2 > 3)
                {
                        alert("Not a valid email adress!")
                }
} 


So when a value is not proper,there should be an alert message,then select and focus on the field.But only the alert works.I can set the select and the focus to any other field from the current one ,but not to the current.(For instance:if the name is not good:document.myform.username.select() works,but :document.myform.name.select() not.)
Can somebody help me?

I've got an older style frameset (3 frame within). Its a user browse/select set. Top frame is controls, middle is headings & sort control, bottom is the scrollable browse data.

This needs a performance solution since it works fine when the browse data is low volume (or the network is blazing fast).

The prob: Once the set is fully loaded the cursor is placed in a text box in the control frame allowing the user to be able to type a search term without having to click in the textbox.

Problem is the cursor doesn't stick in the bottom frame after _all_ that data loads I tried:
Code:

 window.parent.MCABrowseControl.document.getElementById('txtQuickFind').focus()
 alert("after")

no errors of any kind and for a split second the cursor is visible -- and then is gone (the focus appears to revert to the bottom frames first input (a radio button)

I messed with onreadystatechange but couldn't get my fx to fire when the state became "complete". It only fired once when "loading"

Any methods/properties I can use to solve the issue of _waiting_ for all frames to finish before setting the focus(), and have it stay there?

thanks

(sorry for the noobiness)

Is there a way to focus on the most recent input to a text area (say after 50 inputs) without having to manually scroll down??

Code:

function console(msg){
     document.console1.input.value = document.console1.input.value+=msg
     document.console1.input.value.focus()
		}

~read that focus() should do it . . . but it doesn't

Thanks!

i have this code i need to close the parent.html window when the child window opened, i need the code for that working well in IE and Firefox


Parent.html


<HTML>

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
function sendTo()
{
window.open('child.html','_blank','resizable=yes,width='+(screen.width-500)+',height='+(screen.height-500)+'');

}



</SCRIPT>



<BODY >
<form name="form">

<input type="text" value="" name="text1" id="pdetails1">
<input type="text" value="" name="text1" id="pdetails2">
</br>


<input type="submit" value="submit" onClick="sendTo()">

</BODY>
</HTML>


child.html

<html>
<body>
<form>
<input type=text name="text5" value="">
<input type=submit name="submit"value="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Hello all, and thank you for your coments,

I want to preserve a 16/9 aspect ratio to the window after any resize, making the width a function of the height.

As I have a window.resizeTo() inside the window.onresize event function, the infinite loop is served. How may I quit it?


Code:

<html><head><title>Title</title><script languaje="javascript">

const c_ra=16/9;
window.onresize = function WindowReSize() {
  var myWidth = 0, myHeight = 0;
  if( typeof( window.innerWidth ) == 'number' ) {
    //Non-IE
//  myWidth = window.innerWidth;
	myHeight = window.innerHeight;
  } else if( document.documentElement && ( document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.documentElement.clientHeight ) ) {
    //IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
//    myWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth;
    myHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight;
  }

myWidth = Math.floor(myHeight*c_ra);
window.resizeTo(myWidth,myHeight); // ** CAUTION resize event in a onresize event handler !
};  

</script></head><body><p>Hello World</p></body></html>