Popup Tutorial Question

[Kapo]

Hey,

I read the popup and tutorial and it's great!

But i have one question to it.

How can i tell the window to open on a certain part of the monitor?

I know there's something like "screenX/screenY = .. " but can somebody tell me how i can build that into my script?

Thx!

Kapo

[lostinbeta]

which pop-up tutorial are you using?

[Kapo]

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/centered_popup.htm


this one

[Kapo]

oh, btw, i#ve just noticed another thing

when i use the button and open a popup window, it works. Once i close the window and try to open it again, i can't open it again. I have to reload the page before i can load the new window again.

And is it possible to have a swf-file with like 5 buttons on it - and all buttons have a popup window action attached to it?

Kapo

[lostinbeta]

In the on(press) for the button add 2 more variables in there.. one called top... and have it equal how many pixels from the top of the screen you want it to be at. And add another variable called left and set that value to how many pixels from the left you want the window to be at.

Then in the function call you will want to change these things....

1) In the function you have to specify the correct arguments, so change...

_global.openWinCentre = function(url, winName, w, h, toolbar, location, directories, status, menubar, scrollbars, resizable)

to

_global.openWinCentre = function(url, winName, w, h, toolbar, location, directories, status, menubar, scrollbars, resizable, top, left)

Notice how we added top and left to the end of the arguments list.
2) Find this line...

top='+((screen.height/2)-("+h/2+"))+',left='+((screen.width/2)-("+w/2+"))+'"+"') 

and change it to

top='+top+',left='+left+'"+"') 

Now the script is set up to accept the specified top and left values instead of the centered window values.


I think this should work.

[Kapo]

ok thx man..

and do u think u can help me with the other prob too?

When i open the window, and close it, i can't open it or another window anymore without havin to refresh the swf


is there somethin that can slove this problem?

maybe i have to close the windo with javascript?

Kapo

[lostinbeta]

Uhhh, unless something changed in the tutorial, it should work just fine. I fixed this issue a while back... I believe kirupa updated the code in the tutorial to fix this issue and we haven't had problems with this since.

Perhaps you are using the downloadable source .fla (which may not contain the updated code that is in the tutorial)?

[Kapo]

nope, i used the code from the tutorial.. everything works, just not this funktion

here is the link to my page i'm building:

http://web62.multimediastudios.de/Index2.htm

Go to: "memberz" ( The buttons for Kapone & D.Chesron are the ones with the scripts till now)

[Kapo]

oh wait, i've just noticed, that the links only work when the memberz.swf isn#t fully loaded.. that should be the problem .. let me see if i can find why it's that way

[Kapo]

could it be because of the "stop" action on the last frame?

would be strange if it was becuz of that

[edit]

I have just put the script of the actions layer after the stop.

But now (i have put scripts on all buttons now) only 2 buttons - the second and the last - work?

:confused:

[lostinbeta]

I don't know, are you sure you uploaded the correct .swf file to the server when you added the code to those buttons?

Are you sure each button has a different value for the target_winName variable (or whatever that variable is for the window name)?

If these are all fine, I don't know whats up, when I re-wrote the code I tested in many times and it always worked.

[Kapo]

I have given every button a different value name (from kirupa to kirupa4) ..

darn.. i don't understand why those 2 buttons work and the others don't