How do I open a new browser window from multiple hotspots?

[Guest]

I have searched the net but do not seem to be able to find out how to open a
new browser window from multiple image hotspots. Please help.

 

[Andrew Murray]

Right click the 'hotspot' shape, and it will open the hyperlinks properties
box, put in the page or site you're linking to, and then choose the "target"
button and choose "new window".

Repeat this for all the hotspots.

 

[Guest]

Hi Andrew

Thanks for responding so quickly.

Please accept my apologies, this is the first time I have posted a question
and I did not ask it correctly.

What I should have said was...

I am trying to open a new browser window to multiple hotspots on an image.
I am using the Behaviour 'Open Browser Window' as I want to resize each new
window. When I do this it doesn't work, the Behaviour seems to be attached
to the image and not the hotspot.

Katy

 

[Andrew Murray]

OK....I don't know if that will work.

You could try the jimco addin (www.jimcosoftware.com) use the "Spawn" addin
(popup window) - similar to the Fp2003 behaviour. Although, you might run
into the same issue.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Andrew, will look into that.

OK....I don't know if that will work.

You could try the jimco addin (www.jimcosoftware.com) use the "Spawn" addin
(popup window) - similar to the Fp2003 behaviour. Although, you might run
into the same issue.

 

[Andrew Murray]

Katy,

I just realised Spawn won't work - it states it doesn't support image maps -
which is what your "hotspots" are.

So, I expect no popup window utility using javascript will work the way you
want (which is unfortunate).

My original suggestion, change the 'target' to "New Window" when making the
hotspot hyperlink will probably work, since there's no Javascript involved
(which I think is what the trouble with the popups not working).

It will still get the menu bars, tool bars, title, status bar etc, and you
won't have any control over pre-setting the window size, but that's the best
I can suggest.

One other thing I could suggest, is a utility to 'slice' your image/banner
up in to segments, which is then reassembled into a table. Then you can
link to an individual 'slice' of the whole image - that way the popup window
behaviour or the Spawn addin will work as you're simply creating the link
from an image (which cosmetically looks like one whole image). This way you
won't be using the hotsots feature, but linking directly from the individual
slices of the whole image.

There was one program I used to have (still do somewhere).

"Picture Clip". www.iron-fe-works.com

A very handy utility.

 

[Guest]

Hi Andrew

That is a great suggestion, I'm downloading Pictureclip right now.

Thank you very much for your help.

Katy

 

[Andrew Murray]

Hi again, Katy,

I hope you've had some success.

Note the 'slicing' your banner image won't speed up loading the page any
more (in fact it may slow it down but probably the difference would be
negligible) but at least then you can link to the segments as you wanted to
do originally. The best way to use the picture clip utility it to open a
jpeg or gif version of the banner (that is open the original version in your
image editor (photoshop elements, painshop pro etc) and exort as a JPEG,
then open the jpg in PictureClip, slice it up and then let it export the
html - it creates a pretty clean (as in tidy code) html table.

You can save it as a html file or copy/paste that HTML code to a blank page
(code view) in your web, or to a notepad file, save the file, then import
it into your web, and use it in the banner in a dynamic web template using
the include content web component, shared borders etc.

I'm not sure how shared borders would behave around the javascript generated
by the jimco Spawn utility or the FP2003 popup window behaviour. (I know
there are problems when it comes to using rollover buttons with shared
borders but that's not the issue here and won't effect you hopefully).

Then for each segment you need to link you can then apply the FP2003
behaviour or use the jimco spawn addin.

 

[Guest]

Hi Andrew

I've had to move on to another project for now, however thank you for this
further advice, it's much appreciated and I will keep it ready for when I get
a chance to work on the site again.

Hope you have a great week.

Katy