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August 30, 2001 Using the Caller's Method from within the Dialog Box  Tips: August 2001
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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When you call a dialog box with either showModalDialog() or showModelessDialog(), you can use the second parameter to pass information from the caller to the callee and vice versa. Suppose you have a function definition in the caller, and you want to call the function from within the callee. You know that all functions are methods of the window object. You need to pass the window object to the callee, and then have the callee call the particular method.Here is how you call the dialog box:
window object in the second position. The callee reads in the second parameter into the dialogArguments variable. It can be a scalar, an array, an object, etc. In the following example the callee first assigns dialogArguments to the callerWindowObj, and then calls the update() method of this object:
update() is defined in the caller as:
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