Re: [Roundup-users] _generic.help.html help popup not working. No buttons or filled in text widget.

[John P. R. <ro...@cs...>]

In message <200...@op...>,
Richard Jones writes:

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>On Friday 05 Mar 2004 09:23, John P. Rouillard wrote:
>> Does anybody have any tips/tricks for debugging this? Its driving my
>> supervisor batty.
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>That the pop-up works on one system, and not another, kinda tells me that 
>there's no structural problems. That it breaks across multiple browsers tells 
>me it's not just a caching issue.
>
>Even given that, I guess just check that the form element names are
>the same - the one in the Javascript pop-up window and the one in the
>form that it's trying to relate to. The pop-up holds the name in the
><javascript> block defining the "field=" value. Check also that the
>form in the main page is called "itemSynopsis".

A bit more info, we got a javascript debugger to run under XP.

The initial failure is in resetList, the variable original_field is
undefined.  If I look at the code, I see that original_field is the
result of: window.opener.document.itemSynopsis[field].value.

I brought up immediate mode in the debugger and tried typing in
window.opener.document.itemSynopsis[field].value.. I got an "Access is
denied" error. If I typed in `field', I got back the value "nosy"
including the quotes.

The function updateList apparently fails in the same way.

Ideas?

>It is very strange that you get no errors in any of those
>browsers. Try the old alert() debugging for a bit to see how far it
>gets when you hit the action buttons.

Ok. I'll  google for alert and javascript and see what comes up. I may
have some time to work on this later.

				-- rouilj
John Rouillard
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