RadWindow for ASP.NET AJAX

When opening a RadWindow from code that is inside another RadWindow object, you can use any of the methods described in Opening Windows. However, by default the parent of the new RadWindow object is the window that is executing the javascript. This limits the second window from moving outside the borders of the first RadWindow object, which is likely to be unduly constricting and unintuitive to the end user.

You can, instead, use the current RadWindow's parent window as the parent of the new window. This allows the new window the same freedom of movement as the current RadWindow object. There are two ways to accomplish this:

• Obtain a reference to the parent window, and call radopen from there.

• Obtain a reference to the RadWindowManager, which is on the parent window, and use its open method.

For either method, your first step is to get a reference to the current RadWindow. The most robust way to do this is to add the following function to the RadWindow that will open the second RadWindow:

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function GetRadWindow()
{
    var oWindow = null; if (window.radWindow)
        oWindow = window.radWindow; else if (window.frameElement.radWindow)
        oWindow = window.frameElement.radWindow; return oWindow;
}

Next, if you want to use the first approach, you can use the current RadWindow to get a reference to the parent page, and use it to call radopen:

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var oBrowserWnd = GetRadWindow().BrowserWindow;
setTimeout(function ()
{
    oBrowserWnd.radopen("http://www.google.com", "NewWindow");
}, 0);

If you choose the second approach, use the current RadWindow to get a reference to the RadWindowManager in the parent page, and use it to call open:

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var oManager = GetRadWindow().get_windowManager();
setTimeout(function ()
{
    oManager.open("http://www.google.com", "NewWindow");
}, 0);

Tip
The timeout is needed to allow the browser to properly set the active RadWindow. This happens because the RadWindow's entire UI is created at this point via JavaScript and the browser needs to first accomplish this operation.