Re: FLASH: Thanks! - JS popup window problem

[Joseph Troha]

Thanks for the feedback everyone.


regards,


joe.




Eric Dunham wrote:


>      To start with, the basic syntax of the window.open statement is:

> window.open("document.html","windowName","features");

> The "features" include the following="height, width, status, menubar,

> scrollbars, resizable, toolbar, directories"

> When you call these features in the window.open statement, you must not place

> any spaces in between the feature list.

>

> For example,

>

> window.open("mypage.html","my_new_window","scrollbars,height=50,width=50");

>

> This would make a new window called my_new_window with nothing but the

> scrollbars with dimensions of 50x50, containing the file mypage.html.

>

>      There are any number of ways that you could open a new window, the most

> popular being the body onLoad event *sigh* :) However, for what you're talking

> about, just use something to the effect of <a href="#"

> onClick="window.open(...)">foo</a> where, of course, the ellipsis signifies the

> arguments that you pass to open(). You may also do it in layers, just use <div>

> and </div> instead of <a> and </a>. I'm sure you can think of many more ways to

> do it...

>

>      Additionally, you could write a function such as the following:

> function OpenWin()

> {

>    var new_win=window.open("new_win.html", "new_win",

> "toolbar=no,directories=no,menubar=no,width=50,height=50")

> }

>

> And then just call the function like you would any other JS function. Hell, you

> could even pass the page and the window name as parameters if you want all your

> popups to be the same size, such as:

>

> function OpenWin(document,name)

> {

>    var new_win=window.open(document,name,

> "toolbar=no,directories=no,menubar=no,width=50,height=50")

> }

> Then call it appropriately.

>

> And one last note...I don't see why anything that you would do in your HTML

> would cause window.open to not function, or did I misunderstand?

>

> Hope that helps, if you need more code or whatever, mail me off list

>

brokenblackhat [dot] net

>

> -Eric

>

>

Quoting Joseph Troha <joecreativefactory [dot] com [dot] au>:

>

> > hi everyone,

> >

> > Our current flash plug-in detection setup utilises HTML and JS to

> > successfully detect the flash & flash 4.0 plug-in's in both Netscape and

> > IE. This detection system unfortunately does not allow us to initiate a

> > pop up JS window from within the HTML. So we feel that our only hope in

> > initiating a pop-up JS window is from within the plug-in enambled flash

> > button (SWF) that appears as an entry button once the user has

> > successfully obtained flash 4.0.

> >

> > The question is :)

> >

> > Does anyone know (or can I be directed to some source code) of the

> > correct flash "get URL" syntax which will open a new pop up window with

> > no scroll bar, no location bar, no title bar and with a set fixed pixel

> > dimension (ie.760 x 425 pixels) ?

> >

> > Any feedback will be awsome.

> >

> > thanks in adv.

> >

> >

> > regards,

> >

> > joe.

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > --

> > Joseph Troha

> > Creative Factory

> > Level 3, 30 Inkerman Street

> > StKilda, Melbourne, Australia

> > v> +61 3 9593 8882

>

> joecreativefactory [dot] com [dot] au

> > www.creativefactory.com.au

> >

> >

> >

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Joseph Troha

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Level 3, 30 Inkerman Street

StKilda, Melbourne, Australia

v> +61 3 9593 8882

joecreativefactory [dot] com [dot] au

www.creativefactory.com.au





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