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From: Philip Snyder <jerome@cqc.com>
Subject: Re: How to pop up a second session that's already open?
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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 23:31:43 -0500
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Claude Potvin wrote:
> 
> Imagine there are 2 Netscape or Explorer sessions already open (A and B).
> We're working in session A.  Does anybody know :
> - How to make the session B window to pop up over the first window (A)?
> - Is there any html trick or Java applet to do the job?
> 
> In fact I want to do like the Win help windows.  Let's say you open it when
> working with Word.  But you don't close that Word help window for now.  You
> go back to Word and work a while, till you need help again.  When you click
> on the help icon, the Word help window pops up again (even if it was
> already open).
> 
> If you had a html help window, that window would pop up the first time you
> call it, but not the second time (if you let it open).  In html pages, when
> a window is already open,
> 1)  the data is sent to that window when you call up that window again
> but
> 2) but the window is not activated (it does not come to the front).
> 
> See my problem?
> 
> Here is a zip files containing 3 little html files that will help you see
> what I mean.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
>                   Name: multisession3.zip
>    Part 1.2       Type: Zip Compressed Data
>                         (application/x-zip-compressed)
>               Encoding: x-uuencode

Okay... I think this is what you want:

windowName.focus()

where windowName is the name assigned to that window.

-Philip
k31ch1@trader.com

