Exposing a function for child window to post to.

Ashley I thought I would start a thread here for my questions about getting data from child windows. The original thread is here for anyone interested: scirra.com/forum/pass-a-value-from-a-child-browser-to-game_topic55919.html

So far I have got a function to open a url in a new window using window.open and a string param in edittime.js for the user to set the url to open. This works fine.

What I am pondering though is how to go about exposing the function that the child window posts to:

function getToken(authToken) {

     userToken = authToken;

}

this basically sets a variable called authToken which is essentially my plugin's returned expression.

I am a javascript noob but so far I am swimming. I am just having trouble figuring out how to expose this function.

Thanks in advance.

M

Some extra info, I am trying post back from the child browser using:

window.opener.cr.plugins_.MYPLUGIN.prototype.getToken(myVal);

Is this vaguely right?

Apparently I have been missing a trick, The correct way to do this is with parent.postMessage and an event listener.

I shall report back on my findings.

Just a follow up to this. I have managed to implement cross document messaging which seems to work on mobile using window.postMessage.

My plugin has an action which calls the following function:

function gameAuthorise(authUrl) {
     window.open(authUrl);
     window.addEventListener('message', function (event) {
     userToken = event.data;
     bRuntime.trigger(cr.plugins_.myplugin_mp.prototype.cnds.authComplete, bInst);
     });
}

        <div id="mytoken"><? echo htmlentities($_GET['token']) ?></div>
         <script>
            var token = document.getElementById("mytoken")
            window.opener.postMessage(token.innerHTML , '*');
            window.close();
        </script>