Radwindow maximized from within a radpageview

[Jody Harbour]

I have a RadTabStrip + RadMultiPageView + RadPageView + RadWindow on mainpage.aspx

RadPageView  I am utilizing contenturl='contentpage.aspx'

I am wanting to do the following call on contentpage.aspx

var w = radopen('dialogpage.aspx', null);

w.maximize();

w.set_behaviors(Telerik.Web.UI.WindowBehaviors.Close);

But this only sets it to full screen within the bounds of RadPageView.

I cant do
var w = parent.radopen('dialogpage.aspx', null);

w.maximize();

w.set_behaviors(Telerik.Web.UI.WindowBehaviors.Close);

as I loose the ability to send requests back to the opening page utilizing:

function GetRadWindow()
{
var oWindow = null;
if (window.radWindow) oWindow = window.radWindow; //Will work in Moz in all cases, including clasic dialog
else if (window.frameElement.radWindow) oWindow = window.frameElement.radWindow;//IE (and Moz as well)

return oWindow;
};
function CloseAndRebind()
{
GetRadWindow().Close();
GetRadWindow().BrowserWindow.UpdateFromPopup('information being passed back');
};

UpdateFromPopup would be called on mainpage.aspx instead of contentpage.aspx
any ideas on how to get the radwindow to maximize??

[Marin Bratanov]

Hello Jody,

Any contorol is bound in the window object of its frame. In your case this is the iframe which the pageview creates for contentpage.aspx. Thus, a RadWindow cannot maximize outside of if it is created in it. This is a general browser behavior - frames provide context separation.

What you can do to circumvent this:
0) have a RadWIndowManager on the topmost page, the first one loaded in the browser
1) open the RadWindow from the topmost page, i.e. var w = window.top.radopen(); so it is not bound in the iframe of the pageview and it can maximize to the full browser window
2) in its object you can store a reference to the window object of the  contentpage.aspx, e.g.: w._actualParentPageReference = window;
3) when you close it you can use this reference to call the desired function:  GetRadWindow ()._ actualParentPageReference.UpdateFromPopup(arguments);


Regards,
Marin Bratanov
the Telerik team