Passing a Value from Popup Window back to the Parent Window

[Daniel Gee]

Although it is about a popup window, I think my question is JSF specific.

I have successfully popped up a window. I am trying to pass a value that is enterend in a popup window text field and the popup window has a button.

I have seen an example code to pass a value from a popup window back to the parent window. In that example, the value to be passed back is set by clicking on a <hutputLink>. See below

<h:dataTable  value="#{ListHolderBean.items}"  var="place">
<h:column>
<h:outputLink title="#{place}" onmousedown="update(this.title);" value="#{place}" on_click="return false">
<h:outputText value="#{place}" />
</h:outputLink>
</h:column>
</h:dataTable>

and the JavaScript in that page is like:

<script type="text/javascript">
function update(place) 
        {
     window.opener.updatePlace(place);
}
</script>

My popup window is somewhat different. I have to provide a text field for users to fill out a value. And there is a button in the popup window to submit the value. The <h:inputtext> tag does not accept the "var" attribute. How do I modify the code to do what I am trying to achieve?

<h:inputText value="#{accessExternalFileBean.ip} ??? />
<h:commandButton value="OK" on_click="provideIpAddress( ?????? );" />

and I think my JavaScript in the popup window should be:

function provideIpAddress( ip ) {
    window.opener.updateIpAddress( ip );
}

[Bruce Jin]

What browser do you use? IE or firefox or...?

[Daniel Gee]

I use the Netscape and Mozilla.