Fp2000 and using Mouseover and Mouseout

[Edwin Hannan]

Hi all

I am trying to control a popup window using mouseover and mouseout.

I can pop a window when a mouseover event occurs (calls to my javascript
edpop() function)

but I cant get to close the popup window on the mouseout event

i thought i was storing the handle of the new popup window in the var win?


here is my javascript code
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javaScript in head

var win; //global var

function removewindow()
{
win.close(); // and why wont the popup close on mouseout????
}

function edpopup()
{
win = window.open("./answers/ccjs.htm","","height=200,width=450"); //

}

End JavaScript
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<P onmouseout="removewindow()";
onmouseover="edpopup();">
Move the mouse pointer over this text, and then move it elsewhere
in the document. Move the mouse pointer over this text, and then
move it elsewhere in the document.



edpopup works
remove window does not work?

Why? can anyone help with this

cheers

Ed

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You can't closed it, as the focus is not longer on the calling page with the
original JavaScript.

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[Peter Taurins]

You can try the script at this stite:
http://www.caughtatwork.net/things/mouseovernewwindow.html

It will open a new window onmouseover and close it onmouseout.
I think this is what you're after.
Works in IE, but don't know about others.

Peter.

 

[jon spivey]

This would probably be the simplest way
<script type="text/javascript">
function openWin(url){
document.mywin = window.open(url,'mywin','width=200,height=200')
}
function closeWin(){
document.mywin.close()
}
</script>
<p onmouseover="openWin('page.htm');" onmouseout="closeWin();">some text</p>

Although there's no support for NN4 because of mouseover on <p> tags.

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Jon,

Is this limited to only being useable via the <p> tag?

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[Edwin Hannan]

Thanks very much for your help

I will be testing this lot today

Cheers

Ed

 

[Edwin Hannan]

Peter

This doesnot work on the mouseout (must be as Thomas noted - that the popup
window cannot be closed from the parent window) but the timer code works ok
and will close the popup

cheers

Ed

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

Edwin,

See Jon Spivey reply/sample script, which does work. The only issue I see
with doing popup on mouse over/out, is that the user must keep the cursor on
the link to be able to view/read the content.

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[Edwin Hannan]

Jon

The mouseout event does not close the popup window, even though the handle
of the target popup window is being saved, again it appears as though popups
cannot be closed from the window they were called from???

Unless my IE 6 on win2k is doing really strange things?

I will just put a button on the popup window to allow the closure.

cheers

Ed

 

[Edwin Hannan]

Thomas

I cannot get this to work, popup ok but no action on mouseout, do you have
this working? if so can you let me know how?

cheers

Ed

 

[jon spivey]

I'd like to see this - can you sling a page up on the web? Popups can
certainly be closed from the window they're called from as in the example I
posted up yesterday which works fine.

 

[jon spivey]

No, in modern browsers any tag can accept mouse events (onmouseover, onclick
etc). NN4 only accepts mouse events on <a> tags - or maybe <div> if you
attach the handler with script

 

[Edwin Hannan]

Jon

I will put a page up soon, bear with me, I will give you the url soon.


cheers

Ed

 

[Edwin Hannan]

Jon

check out this url www.metrofinance.co.uk/test/jonspivey.htm

cheers

Ed

 

[Edwin Hannan]

Jon

I have manged to test the www.metrofinance.co.uk/test/jonspivey.htm page on
a win 98 machine using IE 5.0 and your script works as advertised which is
fantastic..but my dev machine a win 2k pro sp4 and IE 6.02800 will not
allow a close on mouseout?????

I have just accessed using IE 6.026000 on a win 2k server sp3 and all is ok

its my bloody machine ...but why????

cheers

Ed

 

[jon spivey]

Well I don't know what to say about that Your page works fine for me on
win2003 server/ie6 and xp pro/ie6 - don't have a win2k box to test on, my
host upgraded to win2003/iis6 last week so I upgraded my dev server then.
There's no reason I can think of why it wouldn't work on any browser/os
combination

Maybe someone else has some ideas.......

Cheers,
Jon

 

[Edwin Hannan]

Jon
Thanks for your time on this matter, the important thing is that it works, I
will sort out my browser on my machine.

Cheers

Ed