about showModalDialog

the function will return a value.
But when the function open a remote web page,
No value will be returned ?

Right.

"creative" <creativebyte@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> the function will return a value.
> But when the function open a remote web page,
> No value will be returned ?
>
>

How to get the return value by opening a remote page?
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> Right.
>
> "creative" <creativebyte@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uDJvL0NKEHA.2260@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... 
>
>

In the calling page:

retVal = window.showModalDialog(url, args, options)


In the dialog page:

// the remote page has to assign a value to window.returnValue.
window.returnValue = 'some value or object'
window.close()

Any values that are passed back and forth have to be done explicitly.

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"create" <creativebyte@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> How to get the return value by opening a remote page?
> "William Morris" <news.remove.this.and.the.dots@seamlyne.com> дÈëÓʼþ
> news:c6beud$a6h1q$1@ID-205671.news.uni-berlin.de... 
>
>

> In the calling page:
>
> retVal = window.showModalDialog(url, args, options)
>
>
> In the dialog page:
>
> // the remote page has to assign a value to window.returnValue.
> window.returnValue = 'some value or object'
> window.close()
>
> Any values that are passed back and forth have to be done explicitly.
>


I think the OP knows the syntax, but that the issue is the cross-domain
access.

The showModalDialog documentation only cautions about sending private
information as an argument to a page in a different domain.

Even though there is no mention in the documentation of passing arguments or
returning a value being blocked in the cross-domain case, I think that may
actually have changed as the consequence of one of the *many* IE upgrades
and/or security patches.


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