Re: FLASH: Too simple to be true! (is: browser windows)

[Bill Bogan]

JD ... Helen ... anyone, will you please continue this thread.  At this 

point, my client is patiently *asking* me to fix this problem, but by the 

end of today (I've already been working on it since last Friday) I'm afraid 

they are going to start *demanding*.  Please help.


Bill


PS - Helen, THANK YOU for your contributions!



At 07:24 PM 10/10/2000 -0400, you wrote:

>The problem is illustrated (with real urls, not local files) at

>http://i-technica.com/flash5/test_openurl.html

>

>If you run this in Netscape and click the top button (code shown next to

>it), a new window (name=jdowdell) opens with the macromedia site in it.

>If you then click the bottom button, i-Technica opens in that *same*

>window, replacing the previous content.  This is good.

>

>If you run this in IE and click the top button, a new window

>(name=jdowdell) opens with the macromedia site in it.  If you then click

>the bottom button, *another* window opens with i-Technica in it.  If you

>click either again, another new windows opens.  Click again, another new

>window, ad nauseum.  Unless I've missed something, this is bad.  Once

>the window has been opened, its content should be replaced whenever a

>getURL is issued with that same window name as the target.

>

>Regards,

>Helen

>

>John Dowdell wrote:

> > I'm getting lost in the thread, but if the core problem is "What can cause

> > an IE/Win to open a new window even though I use a name of an existing

> > window?" then some versions can indeed do that with local files... more

> > info on this browser difference:

> > "Previewing documents in Internet Explorer 5"

> > http://www.macromedia.com/go/13889

> >

> > I don't know whether this is *the* core issue behind the thread, sorry.

> >

> > At 12:50 PM 10/10/0, Helen Triolo wrote:

> > >True.  But when you hit the same button (or another button that

> > >references the same target window) again and again, it shouldn't spawn a

> > >new window *every* time.

> >

>

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