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Doug Munday · Guest

This has me stumped. It seems like it should be easy, and it probably is,
but my brain is not cooperating today. Here is what I need to do. When the
user fills in some information and clicks on a particular button on a form
page, have the 'post' submit to the ISAPI app as normal. But I want the
ISAPI app to open a NEW browser window (a popup) and fill this new window
with ISAPI generated data based on the previous form, rather than retuning
the new page to the same browser window.

I know how to cause a 'standard' popup to appear when a button is pressed
while waiting for the ISAPI to return a new main page, but the challange
here is to get the ISAPI to create the new popup window with data submitted
from the previous main window page.

Now that I think about this more, it may not be something that can be done
with webbroker, it may require client side jave script. Hmmm.

Thanks for any ideas out there.

Doug Munday

[email]nospam (AT) eims-inc (DOT) com[/email]
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BTW, this is not for commercial advertising popups. It is for an Intranet
business application.

EggMan · Guest

Try setting the target="otherwindowname" in the html form

-Bill
http://www.eggcentric.com/

"Doug Munday" <dmunday (AT) eims-inc (DOT) com> wrote

Doug Munday · Guest

Bill,

Thanks for your reply. What you suggested with the target is one way, but I
guess I was trying to dictate the target from within the Delphi app. I
didn't fully explain the situation. I have one form, with two submit
buttons on it. I use logic in the Delphi app to detect which button is
pressed. If the 'Total' button is pressed, I want to compute some totals
based on the data that was entered in the form, and displayed the totals in
a new popup window. If the 'Post' button is pressed, the app will post the
data entered into another process and redisplay in the original window with
some other results. So what I was looking for was a way to redirect the
output from within the Delphi app, based on which button was clicked, using
the same form and data.

I realize that the total could be done with javascript on the client, but I
have all the logic already developed in Delphi and was hoping to do it in
Delphi.

Thanks!

Doug

"EggMan" <offtopic (AT) eggcentric (DOT) com> wrote

Perry Way · Guest

This is a client side particular.... only.

"Doug Munday" <dmunday (AT) eims-inc (DOT) com> wrote

Dmeister · Guest

Doug,
You can achieve your goal by using client side javascript. Unfortunately, I
don't have any sample code I can provide legally.

"Doug Munday" <dmunday (AT) eims-inc (DOT) com> wrote

William Egge · Guest

Hi Doug,

It is still not nessesary to use the backend to make the popup window.
Within the click event of the Total button you can use java script to set
the target of the form and then use javascript to submit the form after the
target is set. The other button would not use javascript and would not set
the target, thus the form submit button in that case would not create a new
window.

Does that help?

Btw - My assumption is that setting the target will create a new window, you
should check this - I would but I am too busy.

-Bill

Mike Mader · Guest

"Doug Munday" <dmunday (AT) eims-inc (DOT) com> wrote