Chris and Ibatullin,

Thank you for your responses.  Both of your solutions have places in the
app I am developing.

Regards,
Eric


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Scott [mailto:chris@e...] 
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 8:21 AM
To: javascript
Subject: [javascript] Re: ShowModalDialog and Redirect Parent

Hi Eric

> Question... Does anyone know of a way to redirect the parent based on
> the results of a modal pop-up?  I know that this is doable via
> window.opener, but was wondering if a modal pop-up can be programmed
to
> do the same thing, with window.returnvalue perhaps?

If you pass the modal dialog a handle to the current window when you
open
it...

var myModal=showModalDialog("modal.asp",window);

You can access it from the dialogArguments property of the modal window
&
change the location of the parent page...

var myWin=window.dialogArguments;
myWin.document.location.href="redirect.asp";

However, the parent page will not be changed until the modal dialog is
closed.

HTH,

Chris



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