So you have this webpage, and on it you have SWF file. Inside the SWF you want to have a button or some other gizmo trigger a pop-up window, right?
No problem:
In order to accomplish this, you're going to need to have some javascript either embedded in the button in the flash movie or in the webpage itself. Let me explain:
In order to control the size, and feature of the window that you pop-up from a link on a webpage, you need to use javascript. Any regular <A> tag can launch a new window, but you won't be able to change it's size, or turn of the menu bar, location bar, or status bar - to name a few.
So here's one way:
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1. Create a button in flash, on a given layer
2. Give this button an instance name (let's call it btnTest for now), so we can communicate with it from ActionScript.
3. Create a new layer above the button, and add this code:
btnTest.onRelease = function() {
getURL("javascript:window.open("document.html","newWindow","width=200, height=150");
}
When you compile the SWF and try this, you will get a button that pops a new window. This window will try to load a document called "document.html", so you can change this parameter to be whatever document you wanted to load into this new popped window. The "newWindow" parameter is the name of this new window, so you can refer back to it, in another script if necessary. The last set of settings instruct this new window to be 200 pixels wide and 150 pixels tall.
You can look on the net for a more complete javascript reference on the other options you can set for the window.open call.
the other option you have:
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if you're feeling wild, you can alter the button code in flash and use a function javascript to do the work as well:
so you flash code would look like this:
btnTest.onRelease = function() {
getURL("javascript:MyCoolWindowFunction()");
}
and on the webpage you'll need a script block with the following"
<script language='javascript'>
function MyCoolWindowFunction() {
window.open("document.html","newWindow","width=200, height=150");
}
</script>
So what are the differences? Same functionality in both methods. You may find that one will serve you differently depending upon what you need to do....
keep Flashing...........
