Question

Have a flash player that pops out into a separate popup browser window. And on the source page the flash player just displays a message that it is currently popped out.

Now if the user navigates away from the source page (to another page on the same domain) how do i get a reference to the popup or just detect if its open (using javascript on the new page)?

Answer 1

Figured this out. Had to have a javascript timer in the popped out window that trys to execute a function in the parent window that if exists will simply hide the player.

example

Popout window script

<script>
    if(window.opener!=null)
        setTimeout("popCheck();",2000);

    function popCheck()
    {
        //Use try catch to prevent premission denied msgs in 
        //case parent window is on different domain
        try
        {
            window.opener.setPoppedOut();
        }
        catch(e)
        {
        }
        //Check Every 2 seconds
        setTimeout("popCheck();",2000);
    }

    window.onbeforeunload = function()
    {
        //Used to facilitate popin on window close
        if(window.opener!=null)
        {
            try
            {
                window.opener.setPoppedIn();
            }
            catch(e)
            {
            }
        }
    }

</script>

Parent window script

<script>
    //Save the previous contents so that we can restore them later.
    window.popoutContent = document.getElementById("popoutContent").innerHTML;

    function setPoppedOut()
    {
        document.getElementById("popoutContent").innerHTML = "Player is Popped Out";
    }
    function setPoppedIn()
    {
        document.getElementById("popoutContent").innerHTML = window.popoutContent;
    }
</script>