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Can you force focus on a calling IE window on the close of a child IE window in Windows CE?

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Not sure about Windows CE but with JavaScript you can use window.opener to refer to the parent window from within a popup. I wrote a little example to demonstrate. Hope it will be of help to you:

Save this as parent.html file:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
    function openPopup() {
        window.open("child.html", "", "dependent=yes,directories=no,height=400px,width=600px,menubar=no,resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,title=yes,toolbar=no");
    }
</script>
</head>
<body>
<input type="text" name="txt" id="txtId" value="blah" />
<input type="button" name="btn" value="Open popup" onclick="openPopup();" />
</body>
</html>

and this as child.html:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
    function goToParent() {
        window.opener.focus();
        window.opener.document.getElementById("txtId").focus();
        window.close();
    }
</script>
</head>
<body>
Push the button to close this window and focus on the parent's textbox<br />
<input type="button" name="btn2" value="Close popup" onclick="goToParent();" />
</body>
</html>

Your popup should close and focus should be gained by the calling page, even if it is in the background or there is some other windows on top.

dpb 2010-10-20 19:58:10

Thanks, I'll give it a go.

IronicMuffin 2010-10-21 16:44:59

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