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Can you detect how many browser windows are open?
Jul 17th, 2002 10:37
Lee Grey, Martin Honnen, Greg Miller, http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/objects/objects.asp
You can't detect that as there is no browser wide windows
array/collection.
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Well, yes and no. For pure Javascript, that is accurate.
However, it actually is possible to iterate through all open shell
windows:
<html>
<head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
function fnGetMyWindows()
{
var oShell = new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application");
var oShellWin = oShell.Windows();
var cnt = oShellWin.Count;
var result = "<ul>";
for( i=0; i<cnt; ++i ) {
var oWin = new Object;
oWin = oShellWin.Item(i);
if( oWin != null )
result += "<li>" + oWin.LocationURL + " - " + oWin.LocationName;
}
result += "</ul>";
document.all.item("myspot").innerHTML = result;
}
-->
</SCRIPT>
</head>
<body onload='fnGetMyWindows()'>
<span id='myspot'>myPath</span>
</body>
</html>
This is problematic in a number of ways. It only works on IE,
presumably only in Windows (I don't know anything about IE for the
Mac), and it makes use of dangerous ActiveX components. A user who
lets you do this makes themself vulnerable to anything else you might
want to do to their machine. However, it IS possible, and there are
some pretty good principles to be learned from this small demo, so I
thought it was worth posting.
Have fun, but play nice!
Lee Grey
Grey Matter
http://www.optioninsight.com
