I have the follow scenario:
I click a link which: opens a popup window called 'popup' which loads a pdf inside of it (in IE6).
without closing the popup, i click the link again, which should reopen the pdf inside the popup, but instead a javascript error in thrown: member not found
the javascript function used to open the popup is:
function openWindow(url, name, props) {
var windowRef = window.open(url, name, props);
if (!windowRef.opener) {
windowRef.opener = self;
}
windowRef.focus(); //error at this line, windowRef must be null
return windowRef;
}
question: how do i get around this, without opening a new popup window every time?
this is the hack that works that everyone on the internets is using:
function openWindow(url, name, props) {
if(/*@cc_on!@*/false){ //do this only in IE
var windowRef = window.open("", name, props);
windowRef.close();
}
var windowRef = window.open(url, name, props);
if (!windowRef.opener) {
windowRef.opener = self;
}
windowRef.focus();
return windowRef;
}
try to use global var windowRef outside the function openWindow(). Something like this:
var WindowRef = null;
function openWindow(url, name, props) {
if(WindowRef == null){
WindowRef = window.open(url, name, props)
}
else{
WindowRef.document.location = url
}
if (!WindowRef.opener) {
WindowRef.opener = self;
}
WindowRef.focus();
return WindowRef;
}
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