Help with Thumbnail popup windows

[cjrollo]

Hi I have a gallery of thumbnail buttons which when clicked I would like to open a new pop up window with a simple jpg inside. But I want each thumbnail button to open a separate pop up window, not all in the same window, so if the user wants they can leave several windows open to view at their leisure. I cannot find a tutorial that explains how to make a different pop up window for each button, can anyone help me?

[hschmitz]

Hi,
normally you would use the target="_blank" attribute in your link. So the link would look like

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<a href="image.jpg" target="_blank">View Image</a>

But before you start doing that, please think about whether the user would REALLY appreciate a new window popping up every time she clicks on an image.

[cjrollo]

I know it's something I need to think about but It's for buying and I thought it might be helpful if the user can compare products to each other before making their choice, besides that though I'm doing this in flash so how would the actionscrpit and javascript go for separate windows?

[hschmitz]

In actionscript, you can simply supply a second argument to the getURL function. So the code would look like

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getURL("image.jpg", "_blank");

[cjrollo]

Great thankyou, but don't I need to put some script in the html file of the main page

[hschmitz]

Originally Posted by cjrollo

Great thankyou, but don't I need to put some script in the html file of the main page

If I understand you correctly, you want to open new a window when you click on an image in your Flash movie. The above code should do the trick. No extra JavaScript is necessary.

[cjrollo]

This way, can I control how the window appears no toolbars etc?