Thanks for the pointer -solves my problem perfectly
On Aug 7, 2007, at 2:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> Hi, this is not really a Jmol question, but it is part of a Jmol
>> based app and the Jaavscript guru's are here! So, I have a web page
>> within which is an image map.
>>
>> When I click on an area of the image map I would like to popup a
>> window and fill it with some contents. I have so far got something
>> like this:
>>
>> <img src="junk.gif" usemap="#G" border=0/>
>> <map id="G" name="G">
>> <area shape="rect" onclick="showSingle('CCC')" title="0" alt=""
>> coords="117,8,189,56" />
>> ...
>>
>> now showSingle() is a Javascript function which right now just brings
>> up an alert box. Instead what I'd like to do is open a window and fil
>> it automatically with the result of calling a URL. So in pseudocode:
>>
>> showSingle(smiles) {
>> var url = 'http://some.where/something.cgi?smiles';
>> openWindow with the result of calling url;
>> }
>>
>> Any pointers would be appreciated
>>
>
> This doesn't look like a problem that should be solved with
> Javascript.
> For me it looks like a plain old image map: clicking on a defined
> region of an image opens up an URL.
>
> If you replace
> onclick="showSingle('CCC')"
> with
> href="http://some.where/something.cgi?CCC"; target="_blank"
> you should get what you described: a new window (or tab, depending on
> your browser configuration) with the content returned by the URL.
>
> This plain old method has two advantages and you should consider if it
> is really necessary to involve Javascript here:
>
> 1) no trouble with popup blockers
> 2) no trouble with deactivated Javascript
>
> Regards,
> Rolf
>
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