Newbie question

[Jay]

I have been developing for about 15 days and have ran into my first
snag. Sorry if this is a repeat but I am having a hard time searching
out this problem.

When I visit my site and hover my mouse pointer over graphics this
annoying little windows tool bar pops up in the corner of the image. I
have no idea what it is called but it looks like a floppy disk, a
printer, an envelope, and a mystery item all in a row. It goes away
when I am not hovering over the image. I would be happy if someone
could just tell me what the heck that thing is so I can find away to
get rid of it.


I am using the Macromedia 8


Thank you in advance.


J

 

[RobinS]

If you're using Macromedia, you might want to post that to a Macromedia
newsgroup. This is a Microsoft .Net programming newsgroup.

Robin S.

 

[remi]

Hello,

this is not .NET problem but IE problem.
You can activate or desactivate this in the Internet Options. The mystery
item is to zoom in (picture is reduced to fit the size of IE by default).

Hope this helps

 

[Guest]

Remi is 100% correct, but, just to clarify, two little controls may pop up on
a picture. If you are viewing a picture on its own, without being inside a
web page, the zoom control is enabled to allow you to zoom the image to its
original size if it does not fit into the window.

The control that you are referring to however is also, like the first one, a
feature of internet explorer to allow you to easily save, print.... a picture
from a web site.

I've never felt the need to disable this feature, but let's see if it's
possible.

I have IE 7 installed which deals with this a bit differently, but I'm sure
if you select the Tools menu in IE and select "Internet Options", go to the
advanced tab and scroll down to the images or multimedia section, there may
be a check box that would make your problem go away.

Just a note though (since you mentioned that you have only been developing
for 15 days) this would only fix the problem on YOUR pc since this is a local
setting. Every other person in the world that uses IE would still get those
"cute" ;-) little pop up controls appearing all over your site.

If you want to get really deep into this, you may be able to overcome this
problem if you check out some advanced Java Scripting on the page. IE allows
you to do quite a bit of advanced stuff. Maybe post to the IE development
group to see if anyone knows of some cool script to kill those controls.

As for coding in Macromedia... RobinS probably used to be a mainframe (AKA
"The dark side") programmer and therefore he/she/it was very rude when
replying to your original question. Please accept my apologies on her/his/its
behalf. ;-)

David

 

[RobinS]

No, I'm not a mainframe programmer, I'm a .Net programmer, and I do not
need you to
apologize on my behalf. You misunderstood my intent.

OP stated that he was using Macromedia8, by which I assumed he meant
Macromedia
Dreamweaver8, by which I assumed he was doing web development with it,
and I don't
see the connection to .Net programming. My point was if he wanted help
with something
to do with Macromedia, he would probably get more help if he posted the
question in a
Macromedia newsgroup than a .Net newsgroup. So I wasn't being rude, I
was trying to
help him by redirecting him accordingly. Note that I said "you might
want to post to a
Macromedia newsgroup", not "get the heck out of here and go somewhere
else".

Robin S.
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[Guest]

Did you notice the little ;-) ?

I do understand what you meant, just a little humour.... you know Microsoft
is going to remove these posts from the newsgroup.

It's just that his problem was actually a Microsoft related issue if you
read further than "Macromedia"

David

 

[RobinS]

Ah, must have missed the humor in that. And I don't care if the posts
are
here or not, I was just trying to help the guy. As far as I was
concerned,
posting Macromedia (or even IE) questions in here is right up there with
posting questions about how to use a camera, which has been done
a couple of times in the last couple of weeks in one of the dotnet
forums.

Robin S.
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