FCK crashes IE6 on XP when used in popup

Hello,
I just did some follow up testing and there is the same or similar problem even with the basic sample code provided in the archive.

I zipped to a test directory and opened the _samples_default.html page into a browser. Works fine, then hit Ctrl-N to spawn a new window of this one. Now go there and it works fine too. Now close that window and go back to original window. Boom. Seems after a few seconds it locks up totally and needs to be shutdown.

I expect this is some problem to do with IE6 bugs but I wonder how it can be worked around as otherwise it's a pretty serious flaw in using what is probably the most widespread browser out there now...

I'd be happy to know if this can be fixed or how to workaround it.

Thanks,
Chris

Hi Denny,

Thanks for your reply. I've been away and didn't work on this for a while. Yesterday I was back at it and it's still a problem for me anyway. I'll give more details of my use...

My application is php based so what I'm doing:
in my main window I have a button that opens a popup using an <a href='editme.php' target='new'> for example. This new php page creates an fck edit window in the normal fashion ie. as in docs, but not using a replace textarea style but just embedding the script.

When clicked the window opens and behaves fine. It works and even saves the edited changes without trouble and the window will continue into other functions after (the window is generic so it has a menu and you can do other things after you've edited). The problem is that if you close this window then the previous window that opened this one freezes. I also do this siilar thing in another place but using window.open(...). It seems to behave the same though I'd have to test further to find out where any difference may occur.

My applicaion is very large and contains dozens of screens. I use popups because sometimes the context of the users work is a lot of data and I don't want to slow everything down by having to reload pages so much. There are quite a few small popups for special tasks and since the user has to log in and use the application extensively they need to have popups enabled for this site to be able to use it properly anyway. In fact in a typical use a person may have 4 or more windows open at a time in order to skip between several views of data.
I hesitate to delve into this further because as I said before I really just wanted a plugin working editor solution. I have enough work right now on the main app and to have to debug components as well My hope is that it would be fixed soon or I'll just pull it and try out another one like htmlarea - but to be honest I tried that once and it was also pretty buggy. I've found lots of bugs in fck editor and I guess I should post them but it all takes so much time. Off hand, and since I'm here now:

- when you start editing in a window, even though the cursor is there and you can type text, the delete key doesn't work - you have to click with a mouse in the window and then the font list activates a font and the then after that the delete key seems to work ok.

- when loading text into the window that already contains an html table it seems to do weird stuff. The table and after that is gone but if you click on source it is actually there, and when you click again on source to return to html view it all comes back and the table is there after all. huh? well, as I said there is a few bugs no doubt.

I guess if it was a commercial product I'd be screaming and want my money back but since it's not the choice seems to be work on it and add ot the effort or drop it. I'm sorry that today I don't have the extra time to try to help out...

Chris