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Post February 5th, 2004, 2:02 pm

I've looked all over the web and all I've found were tutorials, nothing to help me with this problem. I'm trying to display my portfokio pieces in a pop up window instead of a new page. when I press the button a new winhdow open - blank and full size. I've used the javascript method found in the tutorial. what am I doing wrong.

I have entered the script in flash as well as the changes in the html code.



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Post February 5th, 2004, 2:02 pm

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Post February 5th, 2004, 2:25 pm

http://www.kirupa.com has 2 or 3 tutorials on this very subject :)


Edit: Oh yeah, and be sure to test the movie in a browser and not the Flash autoring environment. Given that window.open() is a browser interpreted javascript command, Flash does not handle that and so to test this properly you need to be viewing your movie from within a browser.
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Post February 5th, 2004, 3:50 pm

I was so frustrated I published everything and uploaded it testing it on the web. The site you recommended had some info on setting the pop up function up but nothing on how to fix this exact problem. I have been noticing quite a few people on multiple forums are having this problem. I'm sure there is a simple solution, thats why it's so frustrating.

I appreciate the help

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Post February 5th, 2004, 3:55 pm

The problem may be your pop-up function. It's hard to troubleshoot a problem without any code to go by.
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Post February 5th, 2004, 4:01 pm

on the button (this is from the macromedia tutorial):

on (release) {
getURL("javascript:openNewWindow('http://www.macromedia.com','thewin','height=400,width=400,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes') ");
}



and in the html:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript>
function openNewWindow(URLtoOpen, windowName, windowFeatures) {
newWindow=window.open(URLtoOpen, windowName, windowFeatures);
}
</SCRIPT>


I placed this between the <head>'s
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Post February 5th, 2004, 4:09 pm

Works 100% fine diddly-o for me. (IE 6 SP1 on Windows XP Pro)
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Post February 5th, 2004, 4:15 pm

if I were to bring up an image. I just replace the web address, in this case http://www.macro.... with a *.swf or *.html file?

here's what i've done.

created an .swf file contaning an image. published it, so I have and .swf and a .html with content.


I should just replace the direction to the web site with a direction to my image. correct?? or is there a change in code?
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Post February 5th, 2004, 4:16 pm

i'm not sure why, but i did exactly what you have here and it
worked for me. here's the test page: http://www.unflux.com/files/testPop.html

for the zip, go here: http://www.unflux.com/files/testPop.zip
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Post February 5th, 2004, 4:18 pm

Well it's technicall the same, but if the file is on the same server you don't need the full url (although it doesn't negatively effect the script to have a full url either), you can use a relative url. like just "file.swf" or if it is in a directory called "myFiles" it would be "myFiles/file.swf"
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Post February 5th, 2004, 4:23 pm

ill try it again.

thanks for all your help.
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Post February 5th, 2004, 4:52 pm

i think I've figured it out. thanks again for all your help. No B.S. out of all the forums i've gone to this the quickest and most helpful. I'll definetly recommend it.


thank you

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Post February 5th, 2004, 5:04 pm

nice to hear you enjoy OZZU. :)

what did you find was the problem?
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Post February 5th, 2004, 6:05 pm

dumb mistake in setting up the code in html. I checked out your site (unflux). Looks Great. Is this the method you used to show your portfolio. That's essentially what I'm looking to do. press a button and have static images and motion graphic examples pop up in a new window
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Post February 5th, 2004, 10:39 pm

well, i'm only using seperate movies to represent my different
sections. if that's what you mean by new window, then yes.
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Post February 5th, 2004, 10:44 pm

Use Javascript:
Stick this inside the head tag:(between <head> and </head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JAVASCRIPT" TYPE="TEXT/JAVASCRIPT">
function newWindow() {yournewWindow = window.open("your_popup.html", "popup",
"width=200,height=120, scrollbar=no, resize=no") }
</SCRIPT>

Activate it with a link:
(anywhere between <body> and </body>
<a href="javascript:newWindow()">

Should be a popup window. You can control the parameters of the wndow with vaiables like "width" and "scrollbar".

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