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Is it possible to force IE to close (no Microsoft "close confirmation" dialogue) when the EXIT command is issued in Flex?

To the best of my knowledge there is no way to close IE without the confirmation dialogue this is by design of Microsoft.


Regards

Brenden Knifton

You can do this with a couple of caveats.

The stuff below is a Flash/JavaScript call.

getURL("javascript:window.opener = window;window.close();");

I tested with Flash Player 8. It requires you to set its security settings in order to close IE 6.0 without message box. I'm guessing people wouldn't know how to do this, nor want to do this. The confirm has always been there as a built-in security device, and probably shouldn't be overridden, but you can do as you want/need.


This is what happens in browsers based on just calling the Javascript from regular HTML.

Netscape 4.06 - Prompts the user about trying to close a window (I didn't see
this message, someone else tested it for me).
Netscape 4.80 - closes window without a prompt.
IE5.0 - prompts the user.
IE5.5 - Cant find anyone who has IE5.5 so untested there.
IE6.0 - closes window without a prompt.
Netscape 7 - closes the window without a prompt.
Opera 7 - closes the window without a prompt.
Phoenix 0.5 - closes the window without a prompt.
Mozilla 1.4 - No prompt, just an error message "Scripts may not close windows
that were not opened by script." in the Javascript console.

Thanks, guys.

There is also a link at MSDN (below), but I have no idea how to implement it in Flex.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/defau ... lose_0.asp

Best ... John