Can anyone help me with a question about popup windows?

[David@MPL]

Hello all,

I need some help with creating a (possibly unusual) popup window.

I can create a popup from a hyperlink just fine - positioned where I want, no address bar, etc - but I was wondering if there is a way of using elements in said popup to affect the browser window that created it, i.e. "Click Link" in popup and original browser window goes to URL specified by link in popup, then popup closes itself. I'm not sure if this sort of programming is beyond the reach of Java.

If it can be done, any sample code would be greatly appreciated or failing that, any alternate suggestions would be good.

Thanks in advance,

David

[OldWelshGuy]

It is not beyond the reach, but it opens up a whole can of worms. Why would you want to open up a pop up. then close it again, only to send the original browser to another page? tell me more ;-)

Are you saying that
1) click on link = pop up window no toolbar with message
2) close pop up, original window goes to new website?
or
3) pop up is a navigation menu that controls the original browser?

[David@MPL]

Number 3, it would be used for navigation, I'll explain what I'm after . . .

Because the seach script to display all the items in a specific product group doesn't work properly (this is a known bug) I need a link that says "Click here to see more books be the same publisher"

This then opens a popup window that has a simple list of all the other titles by that publisher (this would be hand coded). Each title is then linked using the search script so the browser will display that product.

When you click one of the titles, I want the parent browser to be the one that displays the product not the popup.

. . . any ideas?

Thanks in advance

David

Edit: I'd also like the popup to always be on top as well, Ta