JP Stones — Sat, 07 Aug 1999 01:11:00 +0000

I have also been very disapointed with the support at Dynamic Drive -I have in fact written several times and never recieved an answer...
JP

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PJ — Sat, 07 Aug 1999 00:06:00 +0000

benc,

I had a look at your script and changed a few things, this works for me in IE5:

<html>

var moveBox = ""
var sub;

function move(m) {
if (document.layers)
{
sub = document.layers[m];
}

else
{
sub=document.all('moveBox').style; }
x=parseInt(sub.left);
if (x<=150)
{
x+=5;
sub.left=x;
setTimeout('move('+moveBox+')', 100);
}
}
-->
</script>
</head>

Hopefully it works for you to

Later,
PJ

Jim Shilt — Fri, 06 Aug 1999 23:32:00 +0000

Let me throw my hat into the ring. I modified the script from the project cool site. The advantage to this script is you can move from any location to any other location. left to right, right to left, up to down, down to up, and diag. The disadvantage is you have to make sure the distance is divisiable (sp) by the step.

<html>
<head>
<script language=JavaScript>
ie4 = ((navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") && (parseInt(navigator.appVersion) >= 4 ))
ns4 = ((navigator.appName == "Netscape") && (parseInt(navigator.appVersion) >= 4 ))

if (ie4){
document.write('<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="/styles/dynamic.css">')
}
else {document.write('<link rel=stylesheet type="text/css" href="/styles/dynamicNS.css">')}

if (ns4) {
layerRef="document.layers";
styleRef="";

} else {
layerRef="document.all";
styleRef=".style";

}

</body>
</html>

If you can clean this up please do and return the file to me. Thanks

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John Pollock — Fri, 06 Aug 1999 19:27:00 +0000

Good Job Benc!

I had finally gotten it to go through the first time also, but the m variable kept coming in as [object] the second time. Now I remember why...doh!

Glad to see you got it working!

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benc — Fri, 06 Aug 1999 18:42:00 +0000

I GOT IT!!!!!

ok, i was right about the problem, and just now i figured out how to solve it: it's all in the parameter passing. take a look at the new setTimeout statement:

setTimeout('move(\''+m+'\')', 5)

stupid parameter passing rules

hope this helps someone someday

-benc

benc — Fri, 06 Aug 1999 18:03:00 +0000

I already have talked to dynamic drive...well i should say i emailed them. haven't heard since....

benc — Fri, 06 Aug 1999 17:56:00 +0000

ok, maybe this will help in solving the problem - what does happen is the layer gets moved that first 5 pixels to the left. it's the second call (1st recursive call) of the move function that has a problem with the object. that only makes me more confused, but maybe its how i'm passing the parameter recursively that's screwing me up?

-benc

Fri, 06 Aug 1999 17:11:00 +0000

I cant give you the answer your looking for but if you visit dynamicdrive.com they might be able to help you. They have many cross browser scripts that work fine. All you have to do is cut and paste and a good set of instructions are included.

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benc — Fri, 06 Aug 1999 04:49:00 +0000

first of all - thanks a lot pj - that script cetainly worked. but here's the problem - i'm gonna want to do something like that for about 8 different situations - that means simply inserting the layer id in 8 different functions. *highly* inefficient in case i want to change anything. and besides that, i REALLY want to figure this out since i thought i had it

and yes - dynamic drive is sucking too =P

-benc