Leading zeros problem with custom popup

Question

I've implemented a custom popup page following the How-To docs on the topic. The value I'm return to the calling page in the passback function most often will have leading zeros. So from the custom popup I do a call like this: javascript:passback(00363644). When my value arrives back on the calling page it's converted to 124836 (haven't yet figured out what kind of conversion is happening there).
I realize this is not a javascript forum (and I've Googled for leading zeros in javascript to no avail - yet) but the HTML DB field type Popup LOV seems to accomplish this just fine so I was wondering how Oracle might be doing it. Anyone have any ideas?
Earl

Answer 1

Vikas,
See
http://tinypic.com/ibbfoy.jpg
So, just use
javascript:passback("00363644")and it should do what you want.You would think. But I've tried:
wrapping it in single quotes:
opener.document.getElementById('P6_CONTACT_ID').value = "'" + myVal + "'";
wrapping it in single quotes:
opener.document.getElementById('P6_CONTACT_ID').value = """ + myVal + """;
and the other 'trick' that I've seen mentioned several places, concatenating an empty string to the value:
opener.document.getElementById('P6_CONTACT_ID').value = "" + myVal;
All to no avail! This is really frustrating. Supposedly, any string concatenation action will 'force' the value to retain it's original 'string-ness'.
Working off this assumption and thinking that the conversion had already taken place by the time I assigned the value I backed up a step and assigned the value to a variable before trying to set the value, ala:
var myVal = p_Value.toString();
opener.document.getElementById('P6_CONTACT_ID').value = myVal;
and still no joy.
Following this logic one step further, do I need to get the value to a string in the original call. This will be a challenge because the link in the popup report is a is set to a URL with javascript call, like this: javascript:passback(#CONTACT_ID#);
Further, when I float over the links with the mouse I can see the URL in the status bar of the browser as javascript:passback(00363644); So, how do I go about wrapping this in quotes in the link?
Any help???
Earl