URGENT: Open multiple windows....

[SteveoAtilla]

Hello All,

 

I have an urgent problem. I have a site that I am developing, and part of the data being used for this project is one or more drawing or document files. These can be any number of formats (all web-displayable), such as TIF, JPG, PDF, DOC, XLS and so on.

 

I am relying on IE (required platform) to launch the appropriate applciation (this is on a company Intranet) to display the documents. The problem is, say there are four TIF images for a particular order. The user wants to be able to select the drawing name from a dropdown list, click a "Display Drawing" button, and have each succesive image open in a NEW window, so after choosing the four drawings, they will have five instances of IE open.

 

I am using the DisplayPopup method from the ClientSidePage class, but I cannot get it to open a second subsequent (third total) window. It keeps trying to re-use the first drawing window.

 

What do I have to do to get multiple sub-windows opened?

 

Thanks,

 

Kahuna

[mike55]

You could try and use javascript to open up the new windows:

function newWindow(){
 var doc = document.forms[0];
 window.open("http://localhost/webAppFTP/WebForm2.aspx", "Welcome", "width=350, height=25, resizeable=0, menubar=no, scrollbars=no, status=yes, left=0 , top=0")
}

 

Not sure if that is the way you want to do it.

 

Mike55

[SteveoAtilla]

Mike,

 

Thanks for the quick reply. That's what the DisplayPopup method of the ClientSidePage class does. It creates the javascript to do a window.open. It is re-using the initially opened page for all subsequent documents.

 

I have changed the page to use a standard HTML hyperlink so I can specify the "_blank" target and get a new window every time.

 

Kahuna