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[kalpers]

On my page, I have a link to a virtual catalog that I am working on. Once the user clicks on the catalog it opens in a new window. When viewing the catalog the user can click on any of the images which in turn is suppose to redirect to a different browser window to go to that page. As of right now, I am using the

GetUrl("http://ToThePage.com","_blank"); which opens a new browser window.

What I would like to do is to have the flash document redirect the request back to the original browser that had made the request for the flash document in the first place. So if I start with browser A and clicking a link in that browser opens browser B which has an embedded flash document, I would like the flash document to redirect the GetUrl back to browser A.

Thanks,

Kneale

[buzcajun]

Did you Name browser A?
You can reference it that way, Target "Browser_A"

But you have use Javascript it to bring it to front.

Hope that helps.

[kalpers]

I did a little research and I added the following code to browser "A".

<SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">
<!--
window.name = 'PageFlip';
//-->
</SCRIPT>

and in the action script I am using

GetUrl("http://ToThePage.com","PageFlip");

When I run in IE I do not have any problems but when I run in Mozilla or Firefox a new page opens each time.

Kneale

[kalpers]

I figured it out. When using Firefox, the domain name of the flash document has to be the same domain name of the name window. I had browser A on my local machine and browser B on the network.

Kneale

[buzcajun]

Well that makes sense.
Have a nice day.

[spinal007]

The proper way is to use "window.opener" (window object pointing to the originating window)