Opening and closing an applet or closing a webpage

Question

Hi,
i was wondering if it was possible to open an applet from inside one method and close it within another method. I do not seem to be able to do this.
I have however opened a HTML page that contains the applet and this appears to work fine. Can i, in another method close this HTML page that i opened?
Cheers,
Gareth.

Answer 1

Yes you can, using javascript. What I recommend is to open the new page containing the applet with a call to a javascript function in the page that is running the original applet. Then, call another javascript function that closes the window that was opened. For example
//this code make a call to the javascript function open_applet
JSObject obj = new JSObject();
obj.call("open_applet",null);
//this code make a call to the javascript function close_applet
JSObject obj = new JSObject();
obj.call("close_applet",null);Now, on your html (or jsp) page, just put the following:
<script>
var mywindow;
function open_applet(){
mywindow = window.open("url","_new");
function close_applet(){
mywindow.close();
</script>
Hope you can use this! Regards!