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Subject: RE: FLASH: closing pop up window
From: Paul Willoughby
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:48:01 +0100

davido macshane wrote on 26 October 2000...

> Im developing a flash movie that appears in a popup movie and I want
> to make a little "close popup window" button in the flash.
> Does anyone know how to go about this. It sounds like action
> scripting.
> Thanks
> David

Are you talking about a browser pop-up window? If so, read on...

This is a clever little technique I picked up from www.moock.org . Make
yourself another HTML page with just this code

<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Window Closer</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY ONLOAD="self.close()">
</BODY>
</HTML>

If you save it as windowCloser.html in the same directory as the pop-up
page, then you just need to add this code to your 'close' button in Flash:

On (Release)
Get URL ("windowCloser.html")
End On

*OR*

you could just have this code on your Flash button:

On (Release)
Get URL ("javascript:window.self.close()")
End On

To be honest, I don't know why you would want to use one technique over the
other. Maybe there are browser/platform issues I don't know about, but both
techniques work with IE 4+ on the PC.
Someone shout if they can tell me why one is better then the other!

hth

paul


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