accessing opener frame from plugin in IE

Hey folks,

I'm creating a plugin for an app i'm working on. It basically allows a user to insert MathML via the plug-in dialog. The problem i'm having is that I can't access the opener frame in IE.

In firefox I can do it in a number of ways. I'm trying to get to the frame that contains the plugin from the fckdialog.htm's iframe.

In firefox. window.parent.opener.parent gives me access to this frame.

In IE, any call to opener seems to return a null object.

Any help would be appreciated.

thanx

Tue, 03/21/2006 - 08:40

corndiggity

Joined: 11/08/2006

Posts: 10

RE: accessing opener frame from plugin in IE

Found the source of this problem. In IE, the dialog is opened with showModalDialog which does not have an opener.

Tue, 03/21/2006 - 09:24

corndiggity

Joined: 11/08/2006

Posts: 10

RE: accessing opener frame from plugin in IE

This solution I found is to add an Opener variable to the oDialogInfo object that is passed to the dialog. I set the this value to self and it allows me to get to the opener even.

Tue, 03/21/2006 - 12:32

snoopy_0815

Joined: 04/11/2006

Posts: 8

RE: accessing opener frame from plugin in IE

Hi corndiggity!
That's exactly what I was searching for!
But I can't get it working...

can you give more details - or even post your changes as an example?

I tried the following:

fckeditorcode_ie_2.js:
in -> var FCKDialog=new Object();

added:
oDialogInfo.opener.this=self;

but this leads to an errormessage...

can you help me?

and if possible: can you post the example-lines + filenames how to exchange a value between plugin and opener window?

thanx in advanced, j:)rgen.