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

[Helen Triolo]

Resend of message 15 hours later...


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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