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aya

aya

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Apr 10, 2002
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Hello.. i'm having some problems with this one.. code. I used this image rollover effect on a test page, and i got i to work, but.. i'm not sure where to put the toolbar text code [window.status='blahblah] in it. I've tried placing it where i thought it should go, but it wouldn't work. I know it's possible.. i've seen it done before.

the url for the test page is if you need to view the source.

Thank you.
 
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I'm not sure where you're calling window.status, but you're not preloading the images used in the rollover properly. I suspect that you're seeing the browser write to the status bar instead as it's loading the images each time a mouseover/mouseout occurs, possibly overwriting your text. Try doing something like this instead:

<script language=&quot;javascript&quot;>
<!--
// preload the images
if (document.images) {
var buttonon=new Image();
var buttonoff=new Image();
buttonon.src=&quot; buttonoff.src=&quot;}

function changeImg(name,status)
{
// name is the image name, status should be &quot;on&quot; or &quot;off&quot; for a mouseover mouseout
// respectively
if (document.images)
document.images[name].src=eval(name + status + &quot;.src&quot;);
}
//-->
</script>
<body>
<a href=&quot; onMouseOver=&quot;changeImg('button','on');window.status='this should show up in the status bar...';return true;&quot; onMouseOut=&quot;changeImg('button','off');window.status='';return true;&quot;><img src=&quot; name=&quot;button&quot;></a>
</body>

By the way, I wouldn't generally expect an e-mail reply to a posted question. People that make the effort to answer questions in this forum do so for free. You're pushing it by asking them to type out an e-mail as well. Besides, you can flag a question for e-mail notification!

Regards,
[sig]<p>Russ<br><a href=mailto:bobbitts@hotmail.com>bobbitts@hotmail.com</a><br><a href= is in</a><br>[/sig]
 
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Uhm, well thank you. I only asked for an e-mail reply because this site takes a while for me to get to, and lags a little bit. So, sorry. But thanks for your help. I wasn't aware of the &quot;e-mail notification&quot; option. I was in a hurry.

-- Aya
 
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