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I open a popup window:

var windowHandle = '';
function popOpen(url,name,attributes) {
windowHandle = window.open(url,name,attributes);
}

The popup window contains a form that submits to iself, does some processing and then reloads itself.

I want to refresh the main page after the processing is done in the popup window.

When i try to use window.opener I get error "Class doesn't support automation..."

Pravin Asar

after refresh

window.opener.refresh();

Pravin Asar

I mean

After processing your page in the child window.. do

window.opener.refresh();

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yourbudweiser

ASKER

thanks for the response

When i try to use window.opener I get error "Class doesn't support automation..."

Pravin Asar

try

self.opener instead of window.opener

Samuel Liew

You can use window.opener in the child page, only if you had opened the child page using the window.open() method in the parent page. If you have opened another page using a hyperlink with the target="_blank", both can't communicate with each other.

Am I right?

yourbudweiser

ASKER

sorry for the delay in responding but none of these suggestions work...

based on my original question, can I modify the popup script so that the original page is refreshed?

yourbudweiser

ASKER

ha! i found the answer to the problem !

using the code above, I would get a JS error "Class doesn't support automation."

I fixed this issue by clicking on "Start Menu" - "Run", and entering the following entries on command prompt:

regsvr32 msscript.ocx [enter]
regsvr32 dispex.dll [enter]
regsvr32 vbscript.dll [enter]

and now the window.opener works !