This
tutorial will detail how to create a JavaScript pop-up window
to be opened from a button in a flash movie. This tutorial will
assume that you already know how to create a button in flash as
well as how to publish your movies html. This script will work
with 4.0 browsers and higher.
1)
First you will need to have a button created. You will give your
button a get URL action and add, exactly as it appears here, the
following to your button in the URL field;
Javascript:popupwindow( )
Be sure that you do not set a window target or it won't work.
This serves as a trigger that will prompt the script we will be
adding to our HTML.
2)
With that all done, we can move onto the slightly harder part,
editing your HTML. This is not to difficult though, as I'm sure
you know.
We need to add the script that will be triggered buy our Get URL
button. The following script can be cut and pasted into our HTML
between the Title and the Head.
<script
LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function popupwindow(){
window.open("view.html","","height=425,width=550,menubar=0,resizabl
e=0,scrollbars=0,status=0,titlebar=0,toolbar=0,left=0,top=0")
}
</script>
3)
You will of course need to edit the link, height, and width as
needed for this script to function properly with your specific
needs.
4)
To create a close window button simply add the following code
to your html link or to another Get URL button in Flash;
javascript:window.close()
This
same method for launching a JavaScript Pop-Up will work for HTML
as well as Flash. To create more then one pop-up window, you can
give each button call a unique name or number your windows. Remember
to edit your JavaScript code accordingly.
