Check if a popup window is already open before opening it using Jquery

Question

I want to check if a popup window is already open , before I open the popup window. How do I get it done using Jquery?

Below is my code to open a new popup window :

Answer 1

var newWindow = null;

function openwindow()
{
  // open the new window only if newWindow is null (not opened yet)
  // or if it was closed
  if ((newWindow == null) || (newWindow.closed))
    newWindow = window.open(...);
}