JavaScript Forum

**Guerrilla** · 03-22-2006, 12:47 PM

Hi,

I have create a pop up to contain my flash player, only problem is that when people navigate my site (dynamic content) the window keeps getting refreshed. I tried the below code but can gte it to help. Just re-read the whole window object chapter of my JS book and still no idea how to do it.

Please help!

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
if (!music){
var music = window.open("player.htm","musicWin","width=500,height=400");
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
</body>
</html>

**vangogh** · 03-22-2006, 04:28 PM

I think the problem is that the music variable won't get passed on refresh. I'm not sure if this will work, but you might try creating an html form that just has one hidden input that you would set. The form would use the page itself as the action and then you should be able to reference that variable on refreshing the page. I think you'll need a server side scripting language to reference the variable.

You'll also need to set up some javascript so the form is automatically submitted on refreshing the page.

**kline11** · 03-22-2006, 05:28 PM

Are you saying that the window player.htm keeps getting refreshed? You could try adding
onUnload="window.stop()" in the body tag of the page reloading. This might work.

**createvibe.com** · 03-24-2006, 02:12 AM

the music variable won't be present on refresh, as vangogh suggested, however, if the window is open, you should have access to it via the window name.

var musicWin = null;

function open_musicWin() {
if (!musicWin || musicWin.closed)
musicWin = window.open("about:blank", "musicWin");

musicWin.location.href = "http://www.yahoo.com";

musicWin.focus();
}

open_musicWin();

**Guerrilla** · 03-24-2006, 06:34 PM

Thanks for the suggestions, the only way i can figure out how to do it is use a cookie and to disable the player for those without cookies.

Thanks for the code createvibe.com but it gave exactly the same problem, when the main window is refreshed the opened window (playing the music) also gets refreshed and music starts from beginning.

Nothings ever simple...!

**createvibe.com** · 03-24-2006, 06:43 PM

if that's the case, then just don't change the location.href if the window is already open.

Code:

var musicWin = null;

function open_musicWin(url) {
  if (!musicWin || musicWin.closed)
    musicWin = window.open(url, "musicWin");
  else if (musicWin.location.href != url)
    musicWin.location.href = url;
 
  musicWin.focus();
}

open_musicWin();

**createvibe.com** · 03-24-2006, 06:43 PM

doh,

open_musicWin("http://www.yahoo.com");

**Guerrilla** · 03-27-2006, 06:35 PM

it still refreshes the player window

**createvibe.com** · 03-27-2006, 07:07 PM

huh? d0od show me the URI that you need opened in the popup and i'll use that with the example

**Guerrilla** · 03-28-2006, 05:58 PM

http://www.russianrouletteband.com/mp3/player.swf or http://www.russianrouletteband.com/mp3/player.html

refresh the parent window, it re-executes the code and the player window reloads making the track start from the beginning again.

Im using mozilla BTW

**createvibe.com** · 03-28-2006, 06:26 PM

well, it must be as vangogh said. though the window target will be available, you won't have a reference to that window, so you won't be able to control it once the page refreshes.

**Guerrilla** · 03-29-2006, 04:54 AM

yer, only way I can see is to use a cookie which sux0r