complete borderless pop up window?
Hihi all
I have seen a few pages from yahoo from time to time where they have a flash movie splashing out the middle of the screen and then disappearing.
so from a wild guess they must have had a pop up winodw that is completely borderless , and had a transparent background on thier flash movie.
I have been able to produce the transparent flash movie, but the pop up window i cant get rid of the border or the bar above it, searched around and cant find anything on it , can anyone point me to the right direction or my initial guess is completely wrong ?
Thx in advance
Suzanne posted this at 00:36 — 1st July 2004.
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your initial guess is wrong. they are using dhtml to hide/move/reveal a div.
starter posted this at 00:50 — 1st July 2004.
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lol , gr8 , me on the wrong track again!!
brings back to my initial Q , can u actually make a pop up window without the bar and borders?
Cheerz
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 00:57 — 1st July 2004.
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No way.
starter posted this at 01:42 — 1st July 2004.
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thx abhishek,
is it hard to achieve in DHTML?
kb posted this at 01:58 — 1st July 2004.
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you are not making a popup window...you are making a div layer
think of it as putting syrup on a waffle...its another layer above it, and you can still see the underside, where there isnt syrup
you need to use something like this:
div.window {position: absolute;
z-index: 2;
margin-left: 499px;
margin-top: 25px;
etc....}
AyntRyte posted this at 02:48 — 1st July 2004.
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Jeez, now I'm hungry
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 05:03 — 1st July 2004.
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lol, my thoughts exactly.
Yes, you can't hope to manipulate window borders as they're handled by the window manager which is beyond the browser software. With some API calls a program can remove borders from its GUI window, but that's not within reach for a web application. Or that's the theory, at least.
On the other hand, there is this script which uses some dark arts to achieve the effect. But it's mostly non-functional now, afaik, with new software versions. In any case, I don't like it, most other users don't like it, and you shouldn't want to do this, you evil, evil person.
The popular method now, as Kyle says, is to fake a window by having a div floating and whizzing around; even one that has a "close"/hide button. There are countless sources for this at dynamicdrive.com
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