Re: [PhoneGap] InAppBrowser doesn't close by window.close()

Shazron

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Jan 11, 2013, 2:50:42 PM1/11/13

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You would call ref.close() here of course....

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Denis Brighi <denis....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,
first i would like to thank you for the great work you are done with PhoneGap!
Really so useful or us, developer :-D

I would ask you if i'm missing something in a scenario like this:
- I open a new page in a InAppBrowser (phonegap v. 2.3.0)

var ref = window.open('www.somesite.com/newPage.html', '_self', 'location=no');

- in the target page there is a button like this:
<form>
<input type=button value="Close" onClick="javascript:window.close()" name="button">

</form>

=> The InAppBrowser doesn't close and neither it calls the Listener attached

ref.addEventListener('exit', function(event) { alert('closed') });
Is this a bug? Is there some workaround?
Thank you so much
Denis Brighi

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Denis Brighi

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Jan 12, 2013, 4:15:14 AM1/12/13

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Ok, I would call ref.close() in order to close the child browser from the parent browser.

But how can I close the child browser from the child browser itself?

Shazron

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Jan 12, 2013, 10:39:17 AM1/12/13

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Are we talking about the InAppBrowser here? There is a Done button.

Denis Brighi

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Jan 14, 2013, 7:14:25 AM1/14/13

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Yes,

but i would like that InAppBrowser self close when a certain page is reached...

Shazron

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Jan 14, 2013, 2:29:34 PM1/14/13

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You can use events. See http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/InAppBrowser (Example Usage #4) and this was briefly discussed in the blog posts as well.

Denis Brighi

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Jan 15, 2013, 3:42:06 AM1/15/13

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Example #4 explains how to catch events.

Maybe i am misunderstood. I try to explain again:

On the phonegap side:

var ref = window.open('www.somesite.com/newPage.html', '_self', 'location=no');

ref.addEventListener('exit', function(event) { alert(event.type); } );

On the server side (the www.somesite.com/newPage.html content):

<form>

</form>

Pushing the closing button on the newPage.html (opened in the InAppBrowser), it didn't close

and neither the 'exit' event is fired.

My final goal is to open a new window in the InAppBrowser that call a series of pages onto the server

and on the final page it automatically close).

Thank you so much!

Il giorno lunedì 14 gennaio 2013 20:29:34 UTC+1, Shazron Abdullah ha scritto:

You can use events. See http://wiki.apache.org/cordova/InAppBrowser (Example Usage #4) and this was briefly discussed in the blog posts as well.

Shazron

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Jan 15, 2013, 2:41:59 PM1/15/13

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And again, why are u calling window.close? Here you have a reference to the InAppBrowser, which you assigned to the variable 'ref'. To close it you call ref.close().

Denis Brighi

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Jan 16, 2013, 12:02:51 PM1/16/13

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On the server side (the www.somesite.com/newPage.html content):

<html>

....

ref.close();

</script>

</body>

</html>

It doesn't work. I don't think that variable scope from inside and outside InAppBrowser is the same,

and in fact it doesn't work.

Is it possible to pass some variable to or back from InAppBrowser ?

Shazron

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Jan 16, 2013, 12:44:51 PM1/16/13

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Well, of course - PhoneGap commands can only run in the context of the locally loaded pages (security feature).

Denis Brighi

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Jan 17, 2013, 4:05:16 AM1/17/13

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I know...

So there is no way to let a page close by itself!!

Why a page containing a script "window.close()" cannot close the InAppBroswer plugin? Isn't it a bug or a new feature?

Salman FF

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Jan 17, 2013, 6:27:39 AM1/17/13

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One thing you can do is to have the server redirect to a final page like www.somesite.com/closeInAppBrowser.html . Then add a loadstart eventlistener that checks the url and calls ref.close() if you are on that page.

Denis Brighi

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Jan 17, 2013, 9:39:31 AM1/17/13

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yeah ... this is a good workaround... i'll try it :D

Denis Brighi

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Jan 18, 2013, 11:42:01 AM1/18/13

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function onDeviceReady() {
         var ref = window.open('http://apache.org', '_blank', 'location=yes');
         ref.addEventListener('loadstart', function() { alert('start: ' + event.url); });
         ref.addEventListener('loadstop', function() { alert('stop: ' + event.url); });
         ref.addEventListener('exit', function() { alert(event.type); });
    }

There is an error in phonegap 2.3.0 documentation .... in function() { .... } it miss event => function (event) { alert (...

Denis Brighi

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Jan 21, 2013, 10:51:08 AM1/21/13

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Trying this code:

var ref = window.open('http://apache.org', '_blank', 'location=yes');


         // close InAppBrowser after 5 seconds
         setTimeout(function() {
             ref.close();
         }, 5000);

It doesn't close...

The console log is like this:

01-21 16:49:13.798: W/CordovaPlugin(8690): Attempted to send a second callback for ID: InAppBrowser270960984

01-21 16:49:13.798: W/CordovaPlugin(8690): Result was: "OK"

01-21 16:49:13.798: W/CordovaPlugin(8690): Attempted to send a second callback for ID: InAppBrowser270960984

01-21 16:49:13.798: W/CordovaPlugin(8690): Result was: ""

01-21 16:49:13.853: W/CordovaPlugin(8690): Attempted to send a second callback for ID: InAppBrowser270960985

01-21 16:49:13.853: W/CordovaPlugin(8690): Result was: "OK"

01-21 16:49:13.853: W/CordovaPlugin(8690): Attempted to send a second callback for ID: InAppBrowser270960985

01-21 16:49:13.853: W/CordovaPlugin(8690): Result was: ""

01-21 16:49:13.868: W/CordovaPlugin(8690): Attempted to send a second callback for ID: InAppBrowser270960985

01-21 16:49:13.868: W/CordovaPlugin(8690): Result was: {"type":"exit"}

Any idea?

Eduard Gómez Coll

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Jan 21, 2013, 11:13:48 AM1/21/13

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It's possible to pass server side variables to client side with the new page opened by the InAppBrowser?

elsigh

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May 8, 2013, 11:25:14 PM5/8/13

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OAuth presents a good reason why the InAppBrowser should close when window.close() runs in it.

This flow works in a normal browser just fine, i.e.

Load page index.html

Click login button which does

var ref = window.open('myserver/login') and also setInterval(function() { if (ref.closed) { alert('SHAZAM we are logged in!!'); } });

myserver/login redirects to Google|Facebook for OAuth which then does a callback to

myserver/callback?token=etc.. which then does a redirect to

myserver/done.html

done.html has <script>window.close();</script> which triggers that check for ref.closed mentioned above.

Sure, I can add these loadstart/loadstop things but now I've got code which doesn't work in a browser.

So I do think the InAppBrowser ought to handle window.close

Thoughts?

Shazron

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May 13, 2013, 7:30:39 PM5/13/13

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which platform is this?

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Vineel Sadineni

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I'm working on the same issue,I want to open (facebook,google+,twitter,IMDB links) links using inappbrowser using "_self" for firefox OS[I tried to use iframe,but unfortunately I'm getting framing issue while opening the above links],and I want to close the inappbrowser using var ref = window.open('http://whitelisted-url.com', '_blank');

  ref.close();

But I'm not knowing how to close it,i.e,how do I call ref.close() because the links open over the whole window ,and this does'nt allow me to add a button so that i can call

$("#click_button").click(function(){

ref.close();

});

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