Re: problems with mouseOver -- this is just plain stupid...

You've missed the name in the body section. <img name="whatever" src... etc.

HTH,

Sue

At 04:47 PM 12/5/01 +1300, Mike Henden wrote:
>This is driving me NUTS...
>
>I created a website for a client last year. Recently they asked me to 
>change a button image (the button in question used to read "events" but 
>now they would like it to read "what's new". Now I would consider this to 
>be a fairly simple operation, but it hasn't worked out that way...
>
>Basically I had to change the image names in the javascript preload 
>section thus:
>
>   image7on = new Image();
>   image7on.src = "../images/buttons/8_whatsnew_on.JPG";
>
>   image7off = new Image();
>   image7off.src = "../images/buttons/8_whatsnew_off.JPG";
>
>and make similar changes in the body section as follows:
>
>         <tr><td width=NaN align=center><a href="whatsnew.html" 
> onMouseOver="changeImages('image7', 'image7on')" 
> onMouseOut="changeImages('image7', 'image7off')"><img 
> src="../images/buttons/8_whatsnew_off.JPG" width="120" height="29" 
> border="0"></a></td></tr>
>
>but the damn thing won't run... The page loads fine (HTML seems OK), the 
>links works but the mouseOver event won't happen. Typing "javascript:" in 
>my trusty Netscape browser (doesn't work in IE either) brings up the 
>following error:
>
>    document[changeImages.arguments[i]] has no properties.
>    JavaScript Error:
>    line 63:
>
>The mouseOver function is described as follows:
>
>}
>
>
>function changeImages() {
>   if (document.images) {
>     for (var i=0; i<changeImages.arguments.length; i+=2) {
>       document[changeImages.arguments[i]].src = 
> eval(changeImages.arguments[i+1] + ".src");
>     }
>   }
>}
>
>which is used by all the buttons and runs correctly in all other cases. 
>Netscape tells me the affected line is this part of the function:
>
>  "document[changeImages.arguments[i]]" which it says "has no properties 
> (whatever that means -- seems to to me seeing as it works in all other cases!)"
>
>which I believe is a red herring -- I think the problem is the image 
>preload (though it looks the same as every other image preload on the 
>page) or the body HTML as that's what I changed!
>
>I'm sure I'm missing something simple here (can't see the wood for the 
>trees), though it sure doesn't feel link it...
>
>If anyone can help with this little puzzle the page can be found at:
>
>http://japan.org.nz/christchurch/whatsnew.html
>
>T. I. A.
>
>MIKE
>
>

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