Window: no taskbar
The main pop-up window at rush.com conceals the bottom taskbar consistantly...how can that effect be achieved with Javascript?
Thanks,
TonyMontana
The main pop-up window at rush.com conceals the bottom taskbar consistantly...how can that effect be achieved with Javascript?
Thanks,
TonyMontana
Suzanne posted this at 19:26 — 16th February 2004.
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http://www.zerocattle.com/examples/popUp.html
You can turn on any option -- they should be all off by default for any window opened by JavaScript.
TonyMontana posted this at 20:18 — 16th February 2004.
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Suzanne,
Which parameter is specific to concealing the taskbar?
TM
Suzanne posted this at 23:07 — 16th February 2004.
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status
Breaking it down:
// width of window
width = xxx,
// height of window
height = xxx,
// history, et cetera
directories = yes,
// address bar
location = yes,
// menu bar
menubar = yes,
// can I resize this or not?
resizable = yes,
// indepent of resizing, if the file is larger than the window, can I scroll?
scrollbars = yes,
// the status bar at the bottom of the screen
status = yes,
// the toolbar
toolbar = yes
// I forget which applies to which, but basically, where the window is on the main screen, one is for Netscape and one is for IE
screenX = xxx,screenY = xxx
top = xxx,left = xxx
Recommended is:
Which sets the width and height only, no other bars, and if someone else's browser is screwy, they can resize it so they can see it if they need to. By fault, everything is OFF (no).
TonyMontana posted this at 00:02 — 17th February 2004.
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Thanks, that's great....but specifically, I just need to know how to hide the taskbar, when blowing up a window to screen resolution size. I tried setting 'status=1' and 'status=no' and both ways, the taskbar was still there...
TM
Suzanne posted this at 00:10 — 17th February 2004.
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Perhaps if you define what "taskbar" means to you? status=no no quotes, should be what you have. URL for example?
Suzanne posted this at 00:11 — 17th February 2004.
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Also, be aware that some browsers will stop you from hiding the status bar, eh?
Make sure you aren't testing this on a browser that overrides it.
TonyMontana posted this at 00:17 — 17th February 2004.
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The example is http://www.rush.com where the taskbar (what I call the bottom windows screen area with the 'start' button and applications) gets covered when entering the site.
TM
Suzanne posted this at 00:21 — 17th February 2004.
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ohhh, my goodness, that's a whole other beast.
1. You shouldn't -- you're then messing with people's personal space.
2. You're looking for "fullscreen" settings for the JavaScript popup window.
fullscreen=yesBut it's really not recommended. People will get mighty pissed at you.
Suzanne posted this at 00:23 — 17th February 2004.
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Or, view their source:
<script language='javascript'><!--
var RushPopUpWindow=null;
function RushPopUp(mypage,myname){
w=screen.width;
h=screen.height;
LeftPosition=0;TopPosition=0;settings='width='+ w + ',height='+ h + ',top=' + TopPosition + ',left=' + LeftPosition + ',location=no,directories=no,menubar=no,toolbar=no,status=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,dependent=no';
RushPopUpWindow=window.open('',myname,settings);
RushPopUpWindow.focus();RushPopUpWindow.location='flash_content/InRush.html'
}
//-->
</script>
They are getting the screen height and width and then setting the window size to that.
TonyMontana posted this at 00:41 — 17th February 2004.
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I'm using this code...and I can't seem to get the effect happening, do you know why?
function initWindow(str){
var sW = screen.width;
var sH = screen.height;
var settings = "'directories=no,status=1,menubar=no,toolbar=no,status=1,dependent=no,scrollbars=1,resizable=1,x=0,y=0,left=0,top=0,height="+sH + ",width="+sW+"'";
var str = str;
var rand = Math.round(Math.random()*9999);
var wName = "winMain" + rand;
if (sW > 800){
str += "&smallSwf=0";
}
else {
str += "&smallSwf=1";
}
var mainWin = void (window.open(str, wName, settings));
mainWin.focus();
}
Suzanne posted this at 02:17 — 17th February 2004.
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Seems like it doesn't like your var names.
Anyway, here you go:
function popUp(page, name, details) {var newWin
var page
var rand = Math.round(Math.random()*9999)
var w=screen.width
var h=screen.height
var details="status=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,screenX=0,screenY= 0,left=0,top=0,height="+h+",width="+w
var name = "winMain" + rand
if (w > 800){
page += "&smallSwf=0"
}
else {
page += "&smallSwf=1"
}
newWin=window.open(page,name,details)
newWin.focus()
return false
}
<a href="putyourpageurlhereforaccessibility.html" onclick="return popUp(this.href);">something to activate the link</a>Also, if you don't want to have the same page in the href and the onclick, you can replace popUp(this.href) with popUp('someurl.html'). The function takes this variable as the page name and appends your search query to it.
TonyMontana posted this at 03:06 — 17th February 2004.
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Turns out the var names were ok, the problem was with commas in the settings variable. However, one thing that the Rush site does, is retain the focus of the window.
When I clicked view source and opened a text file on the rush site, the 'taskbar' appeared again, but when I closed the source file window, the taskbar disappeared as the window expanded, or focused.
I haven't been able to achieve that action, if you know how?
function initWindow(str){
var sW = screen.width;
var sH = screen.height;
var mainWin = null;
var LeftPosition=0, TopPosition=0;
var settings='width='+ sW + ',height='+ sH + ',top=' + TopPosition + ',left=' + LeftPosition + ',location=no,directories=no,menubar=no,toolbar=no,status=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=no,dependent=no';
var str = str;
var rand = Math.round(Math.random()*9999);
var wName = "winMain" + rand;
if (sW > 800){
str += "&smallSwf=0";
}
else {
str += "&smallSwf=1";
}
mainWin = void(window.open(str, wName, settings));
mainWin.focus();
}
Thanks,
TM
Suzanne posted this at 05:11 — 17th February 2004.
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um, yes, the part in my code (and Rush's) that says newWin.focus(); or mainWin.focus() -- whatever you've called the window you've opened. They called theirs RushPopUpWindow and so used this line to make it stay focused (while the browser is active only).
RushPopUpWindow.focus();TonyMontana posted this at 18:42 — 17th February 2004.
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The .focus() callback was not being called consistently in my code initially, but it seems to be working now.
TM
Suzanne posted this at 18:53 — 17th February 2004.
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I've found when editing JavaScript and anything really that changes oodles in a short period of time, sometimes browsers just get all confused and silly and fail to entirely keep up.
Glad you got it sorted.
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