Flash buttons and pop ups

They have: 7 posts

Joined: Jul 2003

Hi,

Can anyone help me with this. I use flash to generate menus for my site, but a limiting factor I have found is that I cant open a popup window when the flash button is clicked. Only a regular browser window, with all the toolbars, menus etc (which I want to hide).
Can anyone help

thanks

The Webmistress's picture

She has: 5,586 posts

Joined: Feb 2001

I'm sure it can be done but as I said on the critique of your site, why do these in falsh? They are just simple rollovers so done with gifs you'd get the same effect but have more control with the linking. Another question - why have everything opening in new windows at all? Pop-ups are annoying and IMO if it's content from your site then it should stay within the main window, unless it is enlargement pictures.

Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....

They have: 218 posts

Joined: Apr 2001

You need to create some javascript/actionscript interaction. You can call javascript functions from inside flash. And specify no toolbars etc for the new window.

TonyMontana
electricmountain.com

He has: 52 posts

Joined: Feb 2003

in the head of the html document:

<script LANGUAGE="javascript">
function newWindow(url,name,features){
var newWin = window.open(url,name,features);
}
</script>

in the actions for the button:

Get URL ("javascript:newWindow('your_html_file.html','newWin','height=***,width=***,toolbar=0,menubar=0,location=0,scrollbars=1,resizable=1')", vars=POST)

Aaron Elliott
forwardtrends.com

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