Opening a new window and writting to it

gary kuipers has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks:

My perl script produces a printable page however ...

Instead of having the user go to that page and have to click "back" after printing I would like to open up a new page and write the printable page to it. Then the user can kill the page after printing it and be back on the calling page.

print "<HTML>\n";
print "<HEAD>\n";
print " <script>\n";
print "  newWin=window.open\n";
print " </script>\n";
print "</HEAD>\n";
print "<BODY>\n";
print "<CENTER>\n";
etc.
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Does not work. I know about

<a href= ... target="_blank">
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But I would prefer not to have to write the page to disk and then offer the user a link to it. I'd like to write directly to an newly opened window.

Thanks!

Gary

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Re: Opening a new window and writting to it by nedals (Deacon) on Dec 02, 2004 at 18:19 UTC
This is not really a Perl question BUT.. On the assumption that your <doctype> allows you to use 'target', add this link on the page that calls the script. <a href="/cgi-bin/yourscript.cgi" target="_blank"> and the resulting page will be displayed in a new window. You do not have to write the page to disk	[reply]
Re: Opening a new window and writting to it by fglock (Vicar) on Dec 02, 2004 at 16:32 UTC
You can use a state machine. It can be as simple as having a "printable=1" key: `if ( $printable ) { # print it printable print "<h1>RESULTS</h1>"; } else { print "<p>Welcome to the calling page</p>\n"; print "<a href=xxxx?printable=1 target=\"_blank\">Click for Printa +ble version</a>"; }` [download] untested, may contain several syntax errors.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Opening a new window and writting to it by jcarlsson (Novice) on Dec 02, 2004 at 21:05 UTC
If you can use JavaScript to open a window there are functions for writing HTML in that window, example (some sort of pseudo-code): - open new window (get handle for it) - write first row in new window (in the same page that you opened the window from - write the rest of the rows to the window I don't remember the name of the function, but I know that there is such a function (I have used it one or two times), you should check in some javascript forum, they might know what the function is called. -- may the source be with you	[reply]