New Window/Pop Up Minimizes

rvanandel · July 19th, 2005, 11:31 AM

We have several pages that use a javascript function to open a new web presentation created from MS PowerPoint. The new window has all toolbars and title bars removed. This works fine on most computers but a few in our company are having trouble with it. When the click the button to launch the presentation, the window immediately minimizes.

Here is the function we are using:
function chgpage(){
popupWin = window.open("Confid.htm",null, "fullscreen=yes,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=n o");
}

And the button code is
<input type = button value="Click here to start" onclick="chgpage();MM_goToURL('parent','http://home/');return document.MM_returnValue">

Thanks for your help.

joefawcett · July 20th, 2005, 02:03 AM

I'm surprised it doesn't happen to everyone as you seem to navigate the main page to a new location and it's probably grabbing the focus. Perhaps try something like:

Code:

function chgpage()
{
  popupWin = window.open ("Confid.htm",null, "fullscreen=yes,status=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no");
return popupWin;
}

function showSlides()
{
  var oWin = chgpage();
  MM_goToURL('parent','http://home/');
  oWin.focus();
  return document.MM_returnValue;
}

and

Code:

<input type = button value="Click here to start" onclick="return showSlides();">

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

rvanandel · July 20th, 2005, 09:03 AM

I had thought of that too, so I removed all code the redirects the page. This solution did not fix the problem.