Solving technology problems, one at a time
A tip I picked up from various sites, including This One Very useful for preventing printing of Perception quizzes, when you cannot use Questionmark’s secure browser. Stick this in the template for the quiz: HTML_HEADER=
Continue readingCreate the navbar
Select your button, then duplicate it by selecting Duplicate or Clone from the Edit menu.
Make the rectangle into a functioning button
With the rectangle still selected (the blue handles showing), select “Convert to Symbol” from the Modify menu.
I’m in the process of adapting a 3 column layout script to work with my blog. This is a work in progress. The script has several big disadvantages, but I kinda like it, so I’m
Continue readingYou can use serverside variables to drive client-side javascripts. Server-side variables get processed and the results output by the time the page is rendered, so the value of the variable can be used in client-side functions.
In an ASP application I’m working with, I wanted a different tooltip to show up on each tab, depending on what the tab title was. There is a server-side variable called “tabs[i].title”. So I created a little client-side function to test the value of the title on each tab.
<script>
var tabName ;
function whichTab(tabTitle){
if (tabTitle == 'Summary'){
tabName = Summary;
}
else if (tabTitle == 'Plan Details'){
tabName = PlanDetails;
}
else if (tabTitle == 'Certifications'){
tabName = Certifications;
}
else if (tabTitle == 'Transcript'){
tabName = Transcript;
}
}
</script>
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I have a series of five flowcharts in a tabbed layout, one flowchart per tab (seem to be doing tabs a lot lately). I wanted the user to be able to click a link on another page, and have the flowchart page open to the correct flowchart layer. A working example is here:
Switch layers on the next page by clicking a link
When I tried setting the value of a variable on the new page, it worked in some browsers but not others, probably because some computers are slower at loading pages than others, and the necessary layers would not be loaded in time for the variable to have something to populate.
Continue readingI am working on a game which requires people to log in by selecting whichever team they are on. Each team is made up of several departmental units.
People probably won’t know what team they belong to the first time they play. There is no list of all the potential players, so it isn’t possible to automatically associate users with teams.
So we constructed an entry page which lists all the departments and which teams they belong to. People find their department, and are automatically associated with a team.
It required creating a little script to pass the name of the team along to the game login page.
Presumably people WILL know what department they are in, and will be able to select their team in that manner.
The problem was, the team name has to be passed to Questionmark Perception’s login page, since it requires the team name to send whatever points are earned to the appropriate team.
I used the following javascript to set a hidden field “GROUP” on Questionmark’s login page, when a player clicks the team link on the Entry page.
Continue readingFor child documents that have the same hostname as the parent iframe document, you can use javascript to change stylesheets or other elements of the DOM on the child based on information sent from the parent.
Continue readingIn some of the Questionmark quizzes I’ve made there are “selection” questions, which are simply pull down menus with several possible answers to a question. I started getting emails from scroll wheel users complaining that Questionmark was changing their answers.
It turned out users would make a selection, then immediately start scrolling the wheel without deselecting the menu, so the scroll wheel would scroll within the menu. I didn’t want to disable the scroll wheel or something like that, so I looked for a way to jump the cursor out of the menu when something is selected.
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How do you cause events to fire on the parent page of an iFrame’d page?
Take this page structure:
Page1.htm
–DIV id=”Form1Container” (display:block)
—-iFrame name=”iFrame1″
—–Page2.asp
——Form id=Form1
–DIV id=”Form2Container” (display:none)
—Form id=”Form2″