Can someone point me to a script that will allow me to implement a
"back button" in an HTA, since there is no history for HTA's.

Understand this requires an array, is there any sample code out there
?

thanks

Bud

Bud Zielinski wrote:
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> Can someone point me to a script that will allow me to implement a
> "back button" in an HTA, since there is no history for HTA's.
>
> Understand this requires an array, is there any sample code out there
> ?[/color]

Do not write spaces before sentence marks as it confuses automagic
line-break as you see here.

You will need frames for this quickhack. Put it in the frame documents
(it is best to include the plain JavaScript part in a .js file and link
to it then):

function History(target)
{
var items = [];
var currentItem = 0;

this.goto =
function history_goto(sURL)
{
items[currentItem++] = target.location;
target.location = sURL;
};

this.go =
function history_go(n)
{
if (currentItem + n < 0 || currentItem + n > items.length - 1)
{
if (n < 0)
n = -currentItem;
else
n = items.length - 1 - currentItem;
}
target.location = items[currentItem += n];
};

this.back =
function history_back()
{
this.go(-1);
};

this.forward =
function history_forward()
{
this.go(+1);
};
}

/*
* The non-function properties of the prototype are accessible
* via the function properties, the methods, only. If you need
* direct access, declare them as properties of `this' instead.)
*/

if (parent)
{
if (!parent.history)
// Let the history be a property of the parent frameset;
// navigation affects the location of the current frame (window)
parent.history = new History(window);
}

function checkProp(sProp)
{
return (parent && parent.history && parent[sProp]);
}

function back()
{
if (checkProp("back"))
parent.history.back();

return false;
}

function forward()
{
if (checkProp("forward"))
parent.history.forward();

return false;
}

function goto(sURL)
{
if (checkProp("goto"))
parent.history.goto(sURL);

return false;
}

<a
href="#"
onclick="return back();">Back</a>
<a
href="#"
onclick="return forward();">Forward</a>
...
<a
href="foobar.html"
onclick="return goto(this.href);">Next</a>


HTH

PointedEars