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How do I open a new window?

Added by Frank B almost 2 years ago

Hi,

I have context sensitive help for my application. It's a WRessource, that simply delivers the html files/images from a zip-like archive.

I'd like to open this help in a new window for the relevant topic when the user clicks on a Help-Menu. I have the menu in place, my slot get's called, I know wich WTabWidget "Page" is selected, so I know the URL to open. But I can't find a function to open the url.

And for later on (I'm not there yet): I need to open a new window and display some (actually quite a massive amount) of data in it. This is no ressource, it's part of the application. In short I need to display a Widget in a new window. How can I do that?

Thanks
Frank


Replies (3)

RE: How do I open a new window? - Added by Koen Deforche almost 2 years ago

Hey Frank,

This sounds like WAnchor::setTarget(NewWindow) ? There is no other (reliable) way of opening a new window because popup blockers are well in place in most browsers. A user needs to do this explicitly by clicking on an anchor.

The second scenario: you will need to give the new window a new session, and then it is a matter of creating an anchor which reference a particular internal path for that second window ?

Regards,
koen

RE: How do I open a new window? - Added by Frank B almost 2 years ago

Hi Koen,

Thanks.

Hmmm, can I set an Anchor for a Popupmenu-Item? I've seen, I can set one for a pushbutton, but I found nothing for a popupmenu-item.

Popup-Blockers are not a problem, because it's not public available, only for the staff of our custumors. It runs on their local intranet.

I'm quite new to all this web stuff, but I saw there is a java script method window.open(). Can I execute java script from an event handler?

Bye
Frank

RE: How do I open a new window? - Added by Koen Deforche over 1 year ago

Hey Frank,

Certainly you can call javascript.

The ones that may interest you:
  • WApplication::doJavaScript(): from a server-side event handler
  • EventSignal<>::connect(cons std::string& js): directly client-side

Regards,
koen

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