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Subject:Help needed: HTML Help Workshop pop-up windows From:Ron Jenkins <rjenkins -at- MYNA -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 26 Jun 1998 14:20:59 +0000
I'm trying to get a pop-up window to work in MS HTML Help Workshop.
This should be basic, I think, but I'm stumped, new to HTML Help, and
the lone tech writer here. The HTML Help Workshop's on-line help topic
"To create a pop-up window in an HTML file" doesn't seem to help. It
instructs me as follows:
1. Click _here_ to see a sample pop-up.
2. Right-click in this window and then click View Source
to view the code for this HTML file.
3. Copy the OBJECT tag and the Javascript into your file.
When I try clicking "here" nothing pops up, so I can't get the
pop-up's source code, as there is nothing to right-click. The
instructions might be ambiguous, however. When I instead try
right-clicking the page "To create a pop-up window in an HTML file" I
can find source code with this OBJECT tag:
I have IE 4.0 installed, so that shouldn't
be a problem. Any assistance would be appreciated, and a detailed
explanation would be wonderful.
-- Ron
=======================================================
PS: Incidentally, the HTML for the help page I describe is:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft HTML Help Workshop 4.0">
<title>To create a pop-up window in an HTML file</title>
<style>@import url(coUA.css);</style> <link disabled rel="stylesheet"
href="htmlhelp.css"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FEFEF2" topmargin="5"
leftmargin="10">
<h5 class="proch">To create a pop-up window in an HTML file
</h5>
<OBJECT id=hhctrl type="application/x-oleobject"
classid="clsid:adb880a6-d8ff-11cf-9377-00aa003b7a11"
>
</OBJECT>
<ol>
<li>Click <A HREF=
JavaScript:hhctrl.TextPopup("This is how a pop-up 
window looks.","Verdana,10",9,9,-1,-1)> here</A> to see a sample
pop-up.
<li>Right-click in this window and then click <B>View Source</B> to
view the code for this HTML file. <li>Copy the <code>OBJECT</code>
tag and the <code>JavaScript</code> into your file. <BR><BR>In this
example, Verdana, 10 point is the font, followed by a value of 9 for
the left and right margin, and -1 for the foreground and background
colors. </li> </ol>
