My stuff's not in front of me...

Post #6,504 by ChrisR 8/23/01 2:51:58 PM Reply	My stuff's not in front of me... ...I vaguely recall having been down that road before. It's possible to get the enclosing window. What is regulated though, is the ability of one frame to call a function in another frame - some security issues get involved. Anyhow, if you haven't found it by then, I'll try to look it up.
Post #6,521 by admin 8/23/01 3:49:36 PM Reply	We own all of the frames. So security shouldn't be an issue. If you can find your code that gets the enclosing window and let me know, I'd appreciate it. The method I'm using now (passing the window as a parm) works, but it's a bit inelegant. Regards, -scott anderson
Post #6,539 by ChrisR 8/23/01 6:35:02 PM Reply	hmmm... Found some really old stuff for Navigator 3, but it just set up a frame level property that was stored as the page was being created. Don't know if this is what you are aiming at, but here's a stab: main.html <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "[link\|http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd\|http://www.w3.org/T...frameset.dtd]"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1' /> <title>Main</title> <script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'> function justForGrins(myparam) { alert(myparam); } </script> </head> <frameset border="3" rows="50%,"> <frame src="framea.html" name="bodya" frameborder="1" marginheight="80" marginwidth="120" /> <frame src="frameb.html" name="bodyb" frameborder="1" marginheight="80" marginwidth="120" /> </frameset> </html> framea.html* <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1' /> <title>Frame A</title> <script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'> function tryThis(obj) { obj.document.frames.parent.justForGrins("fred was here"); alert(obj.document.frames.parent.window); } </script> </head> <body> Frame A Contents <form name='myform' action='framea.html'> <input name='fred' type='button' value='say' onclick='tryThis(this);' /> </form> </body> </html> frameb.html <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1' /> <title>Frame B</title> </head> <body> Frame B Contents </body> </html>
Post #6,583 by admin 8/24/01 9:02:43 AM Reply	No dice. Apparently when you walk the DOM to get to an object, it's not the same object as the one referred to by "this". I just get "node.document has no properties". Regards, -scott anderson
Post #6,602 by ChrisR 8/24/01 11:52:28 AM Reply	Non standard Not sure if there is a standard way to get there, but here's a non-standard technique that works with ie & ns differences built into the code. The dump routine just dumps all the properties and methods so I could try to track my way throw the collections (thought it might be useful). <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1' /> <title>Frame A</title> <script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'> function tryThis(node) { if (node.document) { node.document.frames.parent.justForGrins("Internet Exploder"); alert(node.document.frames.parent.window); } else if (node.ownerDocument) { node.ownerDocument.defaultView.parent.justForGrins("NetScrape"); alert(node.ownerDocument.defaultView.parent.window); } else { alert("SOL"); } } function dump(myObj) { if (myObj == null) { document.write("null<br>"); } else { document.write("<table border=\\"3\\">"); document.write("<tr><th>Property</th><th>Value</th><th>Type</th></tr>"); for (var i in myObj) { document.write("<tr>"); document.write("<td width=\\"200\\">" + i); document.write("<td width=\\"200\\">"); if (myObj[i] != null) { if (typeof(myObj[i]) == "string") { document.write("\\"" + myObj[i] + "\\""); } else { document.write(myObj[i]); } } else { document.write("null"); } document.write("<td width=\\"100\\">" + typeof(myObj[i])); } document.write("</table>"); } document.write("<br>"); } </script> </head> <body> Frame A Contents <form name='myform' action='framea.html'> <input name='fred' type='button' value='say' onclick='tryThis(this);' /> </form> <script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'> var node = document.getElementsByName("fred").item(0); dump(node); if (node.document) { dump(node.document.frames.parent); } else { dump(node.ownerDocument.defaultView.parent); } </script> </body> </html>
Post #6,611 by admin 8/24/01 12:43:26 PM Reply	Yes, that seems to work. But since I've already written by passing the Window object along during traversal, and this would be the first browser-specific code I'd have had to add, I think I'll stick with what I've got. Thanks. Regards, -scott anderson
Post #6,633 by ChrisR 8/24/01 3:00:55 PM Reply	Natch Figured as much, but just wanted to complete the thought. :-) Looks like the defaultView property may become a w3c standard sometime down the road. One thing that stuck out, though, is that I couldn't find the ownerDocument property in IE5.5 and that is part of the core DOM standard. And Opera JavaScript still seems to be lagging. I gather y'all are standardizing on the latest builds of Mozilla. Out of curiosity, what IE version are they using? I still have some apps that have to go back to navigator 2.x and ie 3.x, though I'm not sure anybody is still out there using them.
Post #6,677 by admin 8/25/01 3:34:12 PM Reply	Still some problems with DOM in IE 5.5 NOt nearly as bad as the incompatibility problems of the past, but still annoying. IE treats element attributes completely differently than Mozilla. Mozilla uses the W3C method of treating attributes as child nodes of the element; IE treats the attributes as a mapping on the element. Regards, -scott anderson
Post #6,540 by Fearless Freep 8/23/01 6:51:50 PM Reply	"All your frame are belong to us"? sorry...haven't had my fix in a few weeks. Needed a quick hit of AYBABTU Jay O'Connor "Going places unmapped to do things unplanned to people unsuspecting"

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