Suzanne — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:53:37 +0000

I've found when editing JavaScript and anything really that changes oodles in a short period of time, sometimes browsers just get all confused and silly and fail to entirely keep up. Glad you got it sorted.

TonyMontana — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:42:11 +0000

The .focus() callback was not being called consistently in my code initially, but it seems to be working now.

Suzanne — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 05:11:31 +0000

um, yes, the part in my code (and Rush's) that says newWin.focus(); or mainWin.focus() -- whatever you've called the window you've opened. They called theirs RushPopUpWindow and so used this line to make it stay focused (while the browser is active only).

RushPopUpWindow.focus();

TonyMontana — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 03:06:13 +0000

Turns out the var names were ok, the problem was with commas in the settings variable. However, one thing that the Rush site does, is retain the focus of the window.

When I clicked view source and opened a text file on the rush site, the 'taskbar' appeared again, but when I closed the source file window, the taskbar disappeared as the window expanded, or focused.

I haven't been able to achieve that action, if you know how?

function initWindow(str){
   
	var sW = screen.width;
    var sH = screen.height;
	var mainWin = null;

var LeftPosition=0, TopPosition=0;
var settings='width='+ sW + ',height='+ sH + ',top=' + TopPosition + ',left=' + LeftPosition + ',location=no,directories=no,menubar=no,toolbar=no,status=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,dependent=no';
var str = str;
var rand = Math.round(Math.random()*9999);
var wName = "winMain" + rand;
   
  if (sW > 800){
   str += "&smallSwf=0";
  }
else {
 str += "&smallSwf=1";
 
  }
mainWin = void(window.open(str, wName, settings));
mainWin.focus();

}

Thanks,

Suzanne — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 02:17:03 +0000

Seems like it doesn't like your var names.

Anyway, here you go:

function popUp(page, name, details) { 
var newWin 
var page
var rand = Math.round(Math.random()*9999)
var w=screen.width
var h=screen.height
var details="status=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,screenX=0,screenY= 0,left=0,top=0,height="+h+",width="+w
var name = "winMain" + rand
if (w > 800){
   page += "&smallSwf=0"
    }
else {
 page += "&smallSwf=1"
    }
newWin=window.open(page,name,details)
newWin.focus()
return false
}

<a href="putyourpageurlhereforaccessibility.html" onclick="return popUp(this.href);">something to activate the link</a>

Also, if you don't want to have the same page in the href and the onclick, you can replace popUp(this.href) with popUp('someurl.html'). The function takes this variable as the page name and appends your search query to it.

TonyMontana — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:41:05 +0000

I'm using this code...and I can't seem to get the effect happening, do you know why?

function initWindow(str){
   
	var sW = screen.width;
             var sH = screen.height;

var settings = "'directories=no,status=1,menubar=no,toolbar=no,status=1,dependent=no,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,x=0,y=0,left=0,top=0,height="+sH + ",width="+sW+"'";
var str = str;
var rand = Math.round(Math.random()*9999);
var wName = "winMain" + rand;
     if (sW > 800){
   str += "&smallSwf=0";
    }
else {
 str += "&smallSwf=1";
    }
var mainWin = void (window.open(str, wName, settings));
mainWin.focus();

}

Suzanne — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:23:53 +0000

Or, view their source:

&lt;script language='javascript'&gt;
<!--
 var RushPopUpWindow=null;
function RushPopUp(mypage,myname){
w=screen.width;
h=screen.height;
LeftPosition=0;TopPosition=0;settings='width='+ w + ',height='+ h + ',top=' + TopPosition + ',left=' + LeftPosition + ',location=no,directories=no,menubar=no,toolbar=no,status=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,dependent=no';
RushPopUpWindow=window.open('',myname,settings);
RushPopUpWindow.focus();RushPopUpWindow.location='flash_content/InRush.html'
}
//-->
&lt;/script&gt;

They are getting the screen height and width and then setting the window size to that.

Suzanne — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:21:34 +0000

ohhh, my goodness, that's a whole other beast.

1. You shouldn't -- you're then messing with people's personal space.

2. You're looking for "fullscreen" settings for the JavaScript popup window.

fullscreen=yes

But it's really not recommended. People will get mighty pissed at you.

TonyMontana — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:17:00 +0000

The example is http://www.rush.com where the taskbar (what I call the bottom windows screen area with the 'start' button and applications) gets covered when entering the site.

Suzanne — Tue, 17 Feb 2004 00:11:12 +0000

Also, be aware that some browsers will stop you from hiding the status bar, eh? Make sure you aren't testing this on a browser that overrides it.