frame reload() -> reloaded frame gets the focus

[Harald Henkel]

Hello everybody.

I'm trying to do the follwing:

I have 2 frames.
One is the "controller", with a form and a couple of buttons and input
fields.
The other is displaying current status information (this is a database
application with data updated in the background). This is done using a
timer event in the "controller" frame which calls something like
top.status.location.reload().

The problem now is, that the reloaded status frame receives the focus
and the controller frame looses it, which is bad, since the user may
be typing in some field.

Is there any way to prevent the loss of the fucus ?
Does it help, if the reload() is called from within the html (jsp)
file which is loaded into the "status" frame ?

Thanks for any help,
Harald Henkel

P.S.
The application should be running on IE5 or above
(at least at the moment).