Help a newbie...frameless pop-up question

[bigdyce45]

Hi everyone,

I got this script from dynamicdrive.com. It works but I need to know how to change it so that the position is relative to the bottom-right corner of the image instead of the top-left corner.

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--

/*
Image w/ description tooltip- By Dynamic Web Coding (

http://www.dyn-web.com)

Copyright 2002 by Sharon Paine
Visit

http://www.dynamicdrive.com

for this script
*/

/* IMPORTANT: Put script after tooltip div or
put tooltip div just before </BODY>. */

var dom = (document.getElementById) ? true : false;
var ns5 = ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Gecko")>-1) && dom) ? true: false;
var ie5 = ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")>-1) && dom) ? true : false;
var ns4 = (document.layers && !dom) ? true : false;
var ie4 = (document.all && !dom) ? true : false;
var nodyn = (!ns5 && !ns4 && !ie4 && !ie5) ? true : false;

// resize fix for ns4
var origWidth, origHeight;
if (ns4) {
origWidth = window.innerWidth; origHeight = window.innerHeight;
window.onresize = function() { if (window.innerWidth != origWidth || window.innerHeight != origHeight) history.go(0); }
}

// avoid error of passing event object in older browsers
if (nodyn) { event = "nope" }

/////////////////////// CUSTOMIZE HERE ////////////////////
// settings for tooltip
// Do you want tip to move when mouse moves over link?
var tipFollowMouse= true;
// Be sure to set tipWidth wide enough for widest image
var tipWidth= 300;
var offX= -220; // how far from mouse to show tip
var offY= -400;
var tipFontFamily= "Verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif";
var tipFontSize= "8pt";
// set default text color and background color for tooltip here
// individual tooltips can have their own (set in messages arrays)
// but don't have to
var tipFontColor= "#000000";
var tipBgColor= "#DDECFF";
var tipBorderColor= "#000080";
var tipBorderWidth= 0;
var tipBorderStyle= "ridge";
var tipPadding= 2;

// tooltip content goes here (image, description, optional bgColor, optional textcolor)
var messages = new Array();
// multi-dimensional arrays containing:
// image and text for tooltip
// optional: bgColor and color to be sent to tooltip
messages[0] = new Array('images/giggles_300x375.jpg','',"#FFFFFF");
messages[1] = new Array('images/tamia_300x441.jpg','',"#FFFFFF");
messages[2] = new Array('test.gif','Test description','black','white');

//////////////////// END OF CUSTOMIZATION AREA ///////////////////

// preload images that are to appear in tooltip
// from arrays above
if (document.images) {
var theImgs = new Array();
for (var i=0; i<messages.length; i++) {
theImgs = new Image();
theImgs.src = messages[0];
}
}

// to layout image and text, 2-row table, image centered in top cell
// these go in var tip in doTooltip function
// startStr goes before image, midStr goes between image and text
var startStr = '<table width="' + tipWidth + '"><tr><td align="center" width="100%"><img src="';
var midStr = '" border="0"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">';
var endStr = '</td></tr></table>';

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// initTip - initialization for tooltip.
// Global variables for tooltip.
// Set styles for all but ns4.
// Set up mousemove capture if tipFollowMouse set true.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
var tooltip, tipcss;
function initTip() {
if (nodyn) return;
tooltip = (ns4)? document.tipDiv.document: (ie4)? document.all['tipDiv']: (ie5||ns5)? document.getElementById('tipDiv'): null;
tipcss = (ns4)? document.tipDiv: tooltip.style;
if (ie4||ie5||ns5) { // ns4 would lose all this on rewrites
tipcss.width = tipWidth+"px";
tipcss.fontFamily = tipFontFamily;
tipcss.fontSize = tipFontSize;
tipcss.color = tipFontColor;
tipcss.backgroundColor = tipBgColor;
tipcss.borderColor = tipBorderColor;
tipcss.borderWidth = tipBorderWidth+"px";
tipcss.padding = tipPadding+"px";
tipcss.borderStyle = tipBorderStyle;
}
if (tooltip&&tipFollowMouse) {
if (ns4) document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE);
document.onmousemove = trackMouse;
}
}

window.onload = initTip;

/////////////////////////////////////////////////
// doTooltip function
// Assembles content for tooltip and writes
// it to tipDiv
/////////////////////////////////////////////////
var t1,t2; // for setTimeouts
var tipOn = false; // check if over tooltip link
function doTooltip(evt,num) {
if (!tooltip) return;
if (t1) clearTimeout(t1); if (t2) clearTimeout(t2);
tipOn = true;
// set colors if included in messages array
if (messages[num][2]) var curBgColor = messages[num][2];
else curBgColor = tipBgColor;
if (messages[num][3]) var curFontColor = messages[num][3];
else curFontColor = tipFontColor;
if (ns4) {
var tip = '<table bgcolor="' + tipBorderColor + '" width="' + tipWidth + '" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="' + tipBorderWidth + '" border="0"><tr><td><table bgcolor="' + curBgColor + '" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="' + tipPadding + '" border="0"><tr><td>'+ startStr + messages[num][0] + midStr + '<span style="font-family:' + tipFontFamily + '; font-size:' + tipFontSize + '; color:' + curFontColor + ';">' + messages[num][1] + '</span>' + endStr + '</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>';
tooltip.write(tip);
tooltip.close();
} else if (ie4||ie5||ns5) {
var tip = startStr + messages[num][0] + midStr + '<span style="font-family:' + tipFontFamily + '; font-size:' + tipFontSize + '; color:' + curFontColor + ';">' + messages[num][1] + '</span>' + endStr;
tipcss.backgroundColor = curBgColor;
tooltip.innerHTML = tip;
}
if (!tipFollowMouse) positionTip(evt);
else t1=setTimeout("tipcss.visibility='visible'",100);
}

var mouseX, mouseY;
function trackMouse(evt) {
mouseX = (ns4||ns5)? evt.pageX: window.event.clientX + document.body.scrollLeft;
mouseY = (ns4||ns5)? evt.pageY: window.event.clientY + document.body.scrollTop;
if (tipOn) positionTip(evt);
}

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// positionTip function
// If tipFollowMouse set false, so trackMouse function
// not being used, get position of mouseover event.
// Calculations use mouseover event position,
// offset amounts and tooltip width to position
// tooltip within window.
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
function positionTip(evt) {
if (!tipFollowMouse) {
mouseX = (ns4||ns5)? evt.pageX: window.event.clientX + document.body.scrollLeft;
mouseY = (ns4||ns5)? evt.pageY: window.event.clientY + document.body.scrollTop;
}
// tooltip width and height
var tpWd = (ns4)? tooltip.width: (ie4||ie5)? tooltip.clientWidth: tooltip.offsetWidth;
var tpHt = (ns4)? tooltip.height: (ie4||ie5)? tooltip.clientHeight: tooltip.offsetHeight;
// document area in view (subtract scrollbar width for ns)
var winWd = (ns4||ns5)? window.innerWidth-20+window.pageXOffset: document.body.clientWidth+document.body.scrollLeft;
var winHt = (ns4||ns5)? window.innerHeight-20+window.pageYOffset: document.body.clientHeight+document.body.scrollTop;
// check mouse position against tip and window dimensions
// and position the tooltip
if ((mouseX+offX+tpWd)>winWd)
tipcss.left = (ns4)? mouseX-(tpWd+offX): mouseX-(tpWd+offX)+"px";
else tipcss.left = (ns4)? mouseX+offX: mouseX+offX+"px";
if ((mouseY+offY+tpHt)>winHt)
tipcss.top = (ns4)? winHt-(tpHt+offY): winHt-(tpHt+offY)+"px";
else tipcss.top = (ns4)? mouseY+offY: mouseY+offY+"px";
if (!tipFollowMouse) t1=setTimeout("tipcss.visibility='visible'",100);
}

function hideTip() {
if (!tooltip) return;
t2=setTimeout("tipcss.visibility='hidden'",100);
tipOn = false;
}

//-->
</script>


Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[friendlyposter]

Let's tackle this in three steps:


(1) Find the presented image size,
so that you can refer to both the Bottom Right and the Upper Left Corners.

(2) Convert your grid position numbers
(relative to Bottom Right Corner BRC)
to the ones you need to set for the dynamicdrive routine
(relative to Upper Left Corner ULC).

(3) Present the converted number to the routine.


The first step is to find how big the image is (as displayed on your web page).


(1) FIND IMAGE SIZE

There is a FAQ in this forum, called "Detecting the dimensions of an image client-side
faq216-5781".

Alas, we cannot use it in our case. The FAQ response accurately shows how big the FULL SIZE image is.

This FAQ unfortunately will not work if your displayed image is a re-sized or mini version of the full image.

To obtain element sizes as actually displayed on the webpage, you need to use:

elementname.clientWidth and elementname.clientHeight

These two properties offer the dimensions of the element taken inside its border, and minus any scrollbar size.



(2) CONVERT Lower Right displacenments to Upper Left displacement.

Suppose your image is 100 x 200 (width_x * height_y).

And suppose your displacements from the BRC are xdiffBRC = 20 ydiffBRC = 40.
You can do the math in your head.

The displacements from the ULC:

xdiffULC = width_x minus xdiffBRC = 100 - 20 = 80

ydiffULC = height_y minus xdiffBRC = 200 - 40 = 160


(3) Substitute the converted values into the dynamicdrive routine