javascript windowing

[johnnydaboy]

I have a page with several pop-up menus, each containing links to other sites. I call a function popLink() from the onChange handler in the <select> form element. This is the guts of popLink():

if (eval ("typeof(" + name + "Win) != 'undefined'"))	{
			 eval (name + "Win" + ".focus()");
} else {
		 	eval (name + "Win" + " = window.open(url,name,win_attr)");
}

I use eval() because I want each window to have it's own name that I can reference to focus() it when the user chooses that same option from one of the pop-up menus. The problem is what happens if the user has closed one of the spawned windows and then reselects an option from the pop-up. The first test passes but the new object is a String not a window. How do I see if a window exists but still using eval()? Simply doing the following

    if (eval (name + "Win"))

always returns true presumably because it's testing whether it can evaluate the expression.

I know there is a way to do this but I guess I am too retarded to figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Paul S]

Try

if (eval (name +".closed == true") ) {
..
}

to check if the window name was closed.

Paul

[Paul S]

BTW, welcome to Sitepoint forums johnnydaboy!!

[johnnydaboy]

That worked perfectly!

And thanks for the welcome, too!