How can i refer to the parent window of the window containing an applet ?

Question

Hi all,
I m stuck up with something. I have a web page say 'page1' which has a link that opens up a popup window. This popup say 'page2' window has an applet. On clicking particular pins on the applet i need to
direct page1 to another URL & close the popup window. i hv tried this code.
URL url = new URL(applet.getCodeBase(), path);
AppletContext appletcontext = applet.getAppletContext();
appletcontext.showDocument(url, "content");
JSObject win = JSObject.getWindow(applet);
win.eval("alert(\"Do u wnat to close!\");");
win.eval("window.close()");
This code opens up another window on click of the pin, & shows an alert before closing the popup window. On using
appletcontext.showDocument(url, "_parent"); or
appletcontext.showDocument(url, "_top");
The window containing applet gets refreshed with the URL but not page1.
How can i refer so to page1 from the applet.

Answer 1

You don't show your code for what parent or top are, but in an
applet, you must stick with relative links. Once you have the
appletcontext, use a relative path from there:
In the snippet below, docName is a relative path, i.e. ../up/above
   * Displays the specified document in the Web browser.
   * @param docName String pathname of document to download from Webserver
   * @return void
  private void fetchDocument(String docName) {
     AppletContext ctx = getAppletContext();
     java.net.URL serverURL = getDocumentBase();
     java.net.URL codeURL   = getCodeBase();
     java.net.URL docURL = null;
     try {
        docURL = new java.net.URL(codeURL, docName);
     catch (java.net.MalformedURLException err) {
        System.out.println("unable to compute URL from (" + serverURL + ", " +
                           docName + ")");
     if(this.bDebug)
       System.out.println("Open document: " + docURL.toString());
     ctx.showDocument(docURL);
  }