Opening multiple windows using javascript,is it possible?

[Jignesh Gohel]

Hello ,

A humble request:
Please don't ignore this query due to such a lengthy explaination.


I'm making an chat application using JSP & servlets.

Now in that my general chat is working fine & now I'm trying to make one-to-one chat.

the scenario in my application is :


In my application's main page , where i'm doing my General Chat

in a particular room say(Room1) , two frames are continuosly getting
displayed using the "refresh" property of JavaScript.

Now, on the top frame I'm also making the user's name appear who are currently logged in as a HYPERLINK,except the user's name(for e.g. my name).

When I click on a particular hyperlinked user,with whom i want to chat ,a window is pop-upped using the javascript function winopen()

function winopen(path)
{
chatterinfo = window.open(path,"chatterwin","scrollbars=no,resizable=yes, width=400, height=300, location=no, toolbar=no, status=no");
chatterinfo.focus();
}

And this function is called as

 
<a href="javascript:winopen('filename')"></a>
 

Now when i am opening my chat application simultaneously in another browser window & some other user logs in the same room & clicks on the hyperlinked username for chatting with him,the same window which got popped-up by the user on the first browser window , the very same window is popped-up again by the user in second browser window.

So , is it possible that when i click on a particular hyperlinked user's name a new window can be opened for each username using javascript or using html ???

And if not possible then please suggest me some ideas regarding the same .




Thanking you,
Jignesh
[ April 01, 2005: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Eric Pascarello]

http://radio.javaranch.com/pascarello/2005/01/19/1106152877000.html

Also you may want into XMLHttpRequest to avoid the refreshing....

Eric

[Senthil B Kumar]

The first argument to window.open is the window name. Try giving a random text to that window name. so that each time its clicked, a new window is opened.

[Eric Pascarello]

The metod with arrays is better since you have control over thw window objects. You can then have a button that closes them all with a click. It is harder to do that with a random parameter.

Eric

[Jignesh Gohel]

Hello,
Thank you all for your replies.

As i said in my query i want to make one-to-one chat module.

So when i start chatting with a particular hyperlinked username(as mentioned previously),multiple but having common GUI (for e.g a textfield with a send button & a textarea for displaying sent & receiving messages page) pages for each user should be displayed with whom i(for e.g) want to chat.

Thanking you,
Jignesh

[Jignesh Gohel]

Sorry,

my query was incomplete .I'm very sorry for that.

So i would like to ask you that if the above mentioned thing is possible if yes then how to approach & if no then give some suggestions regarding the current mentioned situations.

Thanking you
Jignesh

[Yuriy Zilbergleyt]

As long as your application can handle the creation of new chatrooms, I don't see the problem. Use the same servlet/JSP page to generate all windows, but pass in parameters so that it knows to create a new room for just the two people chatting. The process of inviting the other person and popping up a window on his end might be tricky, but not all that hard even with refreshing windows.

-Yuriy