Closing parent window and keeping up child window

[Guest]

Hi,

Using Javascript I am trying to close first window after opening second window. But closing first window also closes the second window but vice versa is not true. My code works fine on IE and Netscape.

Thanks

[spragers]

I believe that's the way PWB works - the original (first) window is the control window. If you close that window, all PWB windows close.

Scott will correct me if I'm wrong

[Scott]

You are correct, currently by design the parent PWB window closes the children.

If this needs to be changed, we certainly can add a new feature.

--Scott

[Guest]

I just got a complaint about it, thta closing parent window closes all child windows. Is it possible to add it as an option configurable via INI file?

[Scott]

In order to have the main PWB not close all the child windows, we would need to have each child window start as a new thread. We are hoping to avoid this because it will cause other problems such as when running PWB as the Windows shell.

You can have PWB confirm the closure on the main PWB when by setting the following in the INI file.

[Browser]
...
ConfirmClose=True
...

--Scott

[Oleg]

Thanks, I will give it a shot.