BASIC: Reusing opened HTML windows

[Tea_J]

Hi,

I've got a flash based thumbnailed gallery, and the full size pops up in another window. ANways, after viewing a few pictures the user's desktop is cluttered with a lot of opened windows...

so, how do i reuse an opened popup window???? in plain html, it's just a matter of calling the same HTML name.. but it aint working in flash's getURL func..

please advice

[catbert303]

Hi,

Are you opening the windows with javascript? maybe something like,

getURL("javascript:window.open('filename.html','ne wWin','width=400,height=300');void(0);");

if so you just need to make sure the name (in the above example the window name is newWin) is the same in each link, and each new page will be opened into the existing window.

[Tea_J]

hi catbert,

well, i am using plain old

getURL("pic.jpg","newWindow");


is there any way i can reuse windows with this?

Tea

[Tea_J]

i dont bloody believe it.. noone knows!

[va]

Maybe you should try it the way catbert showed you up - thats not much of work. Better than just ranting around isn't it?

[Tea_J]

hehe, i aint ranking around.. and i know about catbert's advice.. but, WHY GO THRU EXTRA METHODS IF I CAN DO IT SIMPLIER??? more methods equals more CPU cycles, space consumption, and sheer added complexity to the whole function scheme...

i hope im crystal clear to ya mate.