RE: pop up windows help

One minor suggestion...

If you add the following to your JS:

     function ShowWind(sFileName) {
       winLoad = window.open(...);
       if (winLoad) {
         winLoad.focus();
       }
     }

then if the window is already in existence, but covered by another
window (like the browser itself), then the "focus" will bring it
to the top so you will see it. Since you cannot make a browser
window stay on top, it's easy to lose these small popup windows.
then when you click on a button again which is supposed to bring
it up, the user is confused if it doesn't appear.

Gary


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org]On
> Behalf Of Starr Wolf Design
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 12:26 PM
> To: Bayangell(at)aol.com; hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
> Subject: Re: pop up windows help
>
>
> Afternoon:
>
> Here is a JS that will pop up a new browser window on top and to the
> upper-left of the main window showing the page and is smaller showing only
> what you wish to visualize. You can customize the parameters of
> this pop up
> window, too. We use it on several client sites especially for promotional
> items and surveys:
>
> cut-n-paste this script into the HEAD:
>
> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
>     // Not loaded yet
>     var winLoad = null;
>     var target = "http://www.R-URL-HERE;
>
>     function ShowWind( sFileName )
>     {
>         if ( !winLoad )
>         {
>             winLoad =
>
ow.open( 
> sFileName,'loadFrame','menubar=no,status=yes,scrollbars=yes,resi
> zable=yes,width=350,height=400');
>         }
>         winLoad = null;
>     }
> 
>     ShowWind(target);
> </SCRIPT>
> 
> Hope it helps.
> 
> Jason
> Support Services
> Starr Wolf Design
> http://www.starrwolf.com
> a JIL Enterprise company
> ". . . exceeding your expectations."
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Bayangell(at)aol.com>
> To: <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 11:08 AM
> Subject: Re: pop up windows help
> 
> 
> > I believe what I'm looking for is another browser widow to open, , that
> will
> > contain only the information on a certain product, but its a smaller
> window
> > that allows the main page to be  to still be viewed also, I have read
> > somewhere that you can set the size of the window..
> >
> 
> 
> 

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