I have a web application with a split screen. On one side there is a specific functionality which is linked to the functionality on the right side of the screen.
I need to 'undock' the right side of the screen so the undocked div can be moved (even outside of the browser). This will be a functionality which users with dual screens will largely benefit from.
I managed to do this using a popup window. However, I am not liking the solution. The primary reason is that the popup window is not linked to the main application.
What I mean by not linked is that whenever I click on something from the left pane, its respective page must be popped out in this popup window. However, When I do this, the popup window is closing and opening another one (because of the same ID). This way, I cannot set a boolean variable to set it as false when the popup is closed, because it will be set to false whenever another popup is opened.
Is there a way of knowing when the popup's close button has been clicked from the parent window? That would solve me problems!
Is there a better solution of achieving this without using popup windows. I don't think its possible since when you use modals or functionalities of this sort, the modal will be a child of the parent container and therefore, is an instance in the same browser.
As a side note, this system is implementing with PHP/jQuery
Please let me know your ideas.
