Pre-sales windows questions

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#1

I will do my best to explain my goal.

I have an online store that sells parts for 8 different machines. Each machine has a schematic with each part numbered (and each number is hyperlinked). Right now I open the schematics from links on my store using this javascript code:

onclick=“javascript:window.open(‘emailMyName- Low-cost email address - 1GB email storage - Block spam - Web & POP3 email access - Get your name as your email address’, ‘_blank’, ‘top=50, left=50, height=800, width=800, status=no, menubar=no, resizable=yes, scrollbars=yes, toolbar=no, location=no, directories=no’);”>xmax Upper

the target window opens (most of the time) - of course this depends on how people have their browser set - sometimes IE opens a new tab so I have to put specials instructions on the site to tell people to “let windows decide” and sometimes Firefox gives me problems also. This is a royal pain and I’m probably losing customers.

The code I have in my popped-up windows contains this at the top to identify the parent:

and the links in my popped up window looks like this to target the parent window when clicked:

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Which brings to the point of my post.

  1. Can I use the Windows tool sold here to not only popup but also stay persistent even though someone using the parent window may change to a different screen in my store?
  2. Can the content in my popper up window target the parent window.
  3. Can the popped up window be minimized?
  4. Can I define a structure when the Window product sold here serves as the container for my entire site showing my store in let’s say the right window of two windows that are created when someone initially visits the site and when someone clicks on one of the schematic links I display that in the empty left window (which I have have set to a very narrow width initially) and then resize the left window when it’s populated with one of my schematics?

thanks in advance for any advice you folks can give me.

#2

Can I use the Windows tool sold here to not only popup but also stay persistent even though someone using the parent window may change to a different screen in my store?

Window is represented on a page by absolutely-positioned div. It is part of the page. Thefore, the window will disappear after change the page.

Can the content in my popper up window target the parent window.

Are you going to load another page into a window ? It can be done using attachURL method. In this case a window creates an iframe that can be accessed by getFrame() method. The iframe content can be accessed only if you the inner page is from the same domain as parent (browser security).

If you put html content into a window, you don’t need to use aditional methods to access it.

Can the popped up window be minimized?

If you want to hide a window content, you may call park() method:

win.park()

to restore state you need to call the same method again.

If you asked about restoring window after maximize, you may call minimize() method:

win.minimize()

when someone clicks on one of the schematic links I display that in the empty left window

You may define the position and size for a window in createWindow method that takes window position, height and width as parameters. Also you may change window size and position after it is already created.

But possibly Layout fits more for this task. Please have a look at its samples:
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dhtmlx.com/docs/products/dht … inner.html