close pop-up using window.close()

greetings. first post here. thanks in advance for any help.

I am using the following code in to open a pop-up window (in Flash hence the actionscript tags ..):

getURL ("javascript:window.open('http://www.mydomain.com/radio/player.php','radio','width=275,height=100');void 0;")

This is working fine. My problem is how to close this window from other pages on the website.

I have tried:

radio.close()

And it is not working. What would be the correct javascript to use to close the pop-up window that is opened using the code above?

Thank you,
calicoder

Not sure you can close a window that was opened from Flash, but if you can...

One not-so-well-advertised fact is that you *can* "find" a window on a page by its name, assuming that your code opened it.

So you could do:

var radioWin = window.open("","radio");
if ( radioWin != null ) radioWin.close( );

Note that you don't pass a URL to the window.open. In this usage, *if* the window of that name already exists, you get a handle to it.

Caution: If the window of that name does *NOT* exist, this code will open one (blank) very briefly until the close( ) then closes it.

NOT TESTED IN ALL BROWSERS! Works in MSIE and FF.

Note: YOU must be the "owner" of the popped up window, of course. That is, your code must be. That's why I worry about invoking this from Flash: Not sure whether the browser sees Flash as same "owner" or not. I'd be curious to know if it works.

that worked perfectly!!! i was stuck on the name assign from the pages to close the window. thank you so much!

Always liked that trick, OP.
Thanks for helping the OP.

btw is it just me, or is someone playing with the buttons around here?

Oh, it's probably me.

My wife says I'm always leaving the second from the top button of my shirt unbuttoned.

<grin/>

Yeah, and the icons have changed color a bit, too.

Probably installed a new version of the forum code.

CaliCoder: Thanks for confirming that it works even from Flash.