FLASH: RE: mysterious Flash pop-up window problem..please help!

[Laura Hamilton]

The valiant and wondrously talented Muzak tried to help me and I am

eternally grateful. Thank you Muzak!


Luckily, after getting away from the problem for the weekend I have just

discovered the problem with my Flash/JS pop-up windows....and it turned out

to be the stupidest thing.


For all of the buttons that *weren't* popping up windows, I had the Get URL

Action code correct, but I had the "Window" field set to "_blank", which

seemed to be the right thing to do at the time (but not now, when I've

thought about it more).


I assumed that I had set the working pop-up window action to "_blank" also,

but when I was combing through the settings for the millionth time to see if

there were any other code differences, I realized that the working button

was the only one *NOT* set to "_blank".


That explains why I got a new window with the JavaScript code inside the

location for the other buttons. The "_blank" window setting screwed

everything up. It popped up a new window all right, but with my JavaScript

action stuck inside of it!


I erased all text from the window fields in all my buttons and they now

works perfectly. Ugh, it's the little errors like this that can drive a

person absolutely insane.


Thanks again to Muzak for trying to help out! Much appreciated... I'm sure

you caught my silly error right away upon seeing my FLA.


Laura Hamilton


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>

>Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 00:59:03 +0100

>

From: "Muzak" <muzakpandora [dot] be>

>Subject: Re: FLASH: mysterious Flash pop-up window problem..please help!

>

>Have you tried removing the %20 (spaces) in the second getURL?

>

>Just wondering: why use popups if they have all the normal window

>attributes (toolbar, menubar, etc...)? Well, maybe you didn't get

>around to that yet, if so - scratch the above :-)

>

>Muzak

>

>- ----- Original Message -----

>

From: "Laura Hamilton" <mslauraviviente [dot] com>

>

To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

>Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 12:17 AM

>Subject: FLASH: mysterious Flash pop-up window problem..please help!

>

>

>> Hello,

>> I am having some serious issues with several pop-up windows in

>Flash and I'm

>> tearing my hair out trying to figure out what the problem is.

>I'm using the

>> same GET URL action, but it only works in one case.

>>

>> If you go to http://www.viviente.com and then click the

>"Portfolio" section

>> (located inside a movie clip), you will see a slideshow frame on

>the right.

>> At the top of the slideshow frame is a button that says "Go to Site".

>

>> javascript:launchwin('http://www.viviente.com/WWfullpage/WWHome.htm' ,

>> 'newwindow1' ,

>>

>'height=400,width=500,resizable,menubar,toolbar,scrollbars,status,l

ocation')

>>

>>

>javascript:launchwin('http://www.viviente.com/WWfullpage/WWHome.htm

>'%20,%20'

>>

>newwindow1'%20,%20'height=400,width=500,resizable,menubar,toolbar,s

crollbars

>> ,status,location')

>>

>> Another odd thing is that when I publish my movie HTML, I only get the

>> following:

>>

>> <!-- URL's used in the movie-->

>

> <A HREF=mslauraviviente [dot] com (mailto:mslauraviviente [dot] com)></A> <A

>> HREF=javascript:launchwin('resumeprint.html' , 'newwindow' ,

>> 'height=400,width=500,resizable,menubar,toolbar,scrollbars')></A>

>

>> What else could it be?

>>

>> Help!

>> Laura Hamilton

>



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