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I am a sysadmin, so most of this was cut and paste and most likely butchered (in short, i dont know javascript). The script is working with one small problem. The page is simply a flowchart to help our helpdesk troubleshoot. They can mouseover a step in the flowchart, and a popup will appear with greater detail. The window is popping right in the middle of the page (where there are mouseover areas), and i need to move it to the right and up, where there are no mousover areas. Any ideas on how to control the popups position within the browser?
Thanks
function helpmsg(header, hstyle, mstyle, message) {
this.DEFAULTHSTYLE = “plain”;
this.DEFAULTMSTYLE = “plain”;
this.header = header;
if (hstyle) this.hstyle = hstyle;
else this.hstyle = this.DEFAULTHSTYLE;
this.message = message;
if (mstyle) this.mstyle = mstyle;
else this.mstyle = this.DEFAULTMSTYLE;
return this;
}
new helpmsg();
helpmsg.prototype.show = show;
function show() {
var H = “<FONT FACE=’arial’>” + this.header + “</FONT>”;
if (this.hstyle == “h1”) H = “<H1>” + H + “</H1>”;
else if (this.hstyle == “h2”) H = “<H2>” + H + “</H2>”;
else if (this.hstyle == “h3”) H = “<H3>” + H + “</H3>”;
else if (this.hstyle == “h4”) H = “<H4>” + H + “</H4>”;
if (this.hstyle == “fancyheader”) H = “<table width=’75%’>” +
“<tr><td bgcolor=’#6060ff’ align=’left’ valign=’top’>” +
“<H1><FONT COLOR=’white’>” + H +
“</FONT></H1>” + “</td></tr></table>”;
else if (this.hstyle == “italics”)
H = “<I>” + H + “</I>”;
var M = “<FONT FACE=’arial’>” + this.message + “</FONT>”;
if (this.mstyle == “plain”) {}
if (this.mstyle == “italics”) M = M.italics();
else if (this.mstyle == “bold”) M = M.bold();
var htmlpage = “”;
if (this.hstyle.indexOf(“header”)>=0)
htmlpage = H + M;
else htmlpage = H + “<BR>” + M;
return htmlpage;
}
function helpbox(name, hm, width, height, bgcolor) {
this.name = name;
this.helpmessage = hm;
this.timerHandle = null;
this.windowHandle = null;
this.DEFAULTWIDTH = 300;
this.DEFAULTHEIGHT = 300;
this.DEFAULTBGCOLOR = “#ffffcc”;
this.POPUPDELAY = 100;
if (width) this.width = width;
else this.width = this.DEFAULTWIDTH;
if (height) this.height = height;
else this.height = this.DEFAULTHEIGHT;
if (bgcolor) this.bgcolor = bgcolor;
else this.bgcolor = this.DEFAULTBGCOLOR;
return this;
}
function startHelp(msgindex) {
var cmdstr=”top.” + this.name + “.showHelp(‘” + msgindex + “‘)”;
this.timerHandle = setTimeout(cmdstr, this.POPUPDELAY);
}
function showHelp(msgindex) {
if (!this.windowHandle || !this.windowHandle.name || this.windowHandle.name==””)
this.windowHandle = window.open(
“”,
“subWindow”,
“toolbar=no,” +
“location=no,” +
“directories=no,” +
“status=no,” +
“menubar=no,” +
“scrollbars=no,” +
“resizable=no,” +
“width=” + this.width + “,” +
“height=” + this.height
);
else
this.windowHandle.focus();
this.windowHandle.document.open();
var to_page =
“<HTML>n” +
“<BODY BGCOLOR='” + this.bgcolor + “‘><P>” +
this.helpmessage[msgindex].show() +
“</BODY></HTML>n”;
this.windowHandle.document.write(to_page);
this.windowHandle.document.close();
}
function clearHelp() {
clearTimeout(this.timerHandle);
if (this.windowHandle && this.windowHandle.name) {
this.windowHandle.close();
this.windowHandle=null;
}
}
new helpbox();
helpbox.prototype.startHelp = startHelp;
helpbox.prototype.showHelp = showHelp;
helpbox.prototype.clearHelp = clearHelp;