Simple script is beyond my rookie knowledge

[Beki]

Hi,
I am a total virgin to Java. I need a simple script to allow a small window to appear for a close up view of an item when the link is clicked.
(checked out several of the online generators, but they only seem to work once)
Each page will have numberous items to be enlarged.
So, I first need to know which script is the best to use so that I can easily have several on each page.

Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance for your time,
Beki

[Vladdy]

Pop-up window ones are certainly the worst and as more and more people install pop-up blocking utilities they also become useless. Make your design such that it stays in the boundaries of the window given to you by the user.

[RoyW]

Try this dynamic drive script
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/thumbnail.htm

[Spookster]

Originally posted by Vladdy
Pop-up window ones are certainly the worst and as more and more people install pop-up blocking utilities they also become useless. Make your design such that it stays in the boundaries of the window given to you by the user.

Not necessarily. What if a visitor wants to look at two different things at the same time to compare them. Popup windows make things quite flexible for the visitor.

[Beki]

Originally posted by Vladdy
Pop-up window ones are certainly the worst and as more and more people install pop-up blocking utilities they also become useless. Make your design such that it stays in the boundaries of the window given to you by the user.

I hear you Vladdy. But my intent was to offer the small window only upon command.
I have pages with a lot of content, going back and forth between a new page each time the person chooses to see an enlargement seems to be a deterrent for them. My quest for this is based upon several requests. <shrug>

Appreciate your opinion tho...thanks.
Beki

[Beki]

Originally posted by RoyW
Try this dynamic drive script
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/thumbnail.htm

Hey Roy, thanks for the cool link.
I gave it a try...two problems come up for me, and please let me know if I should be directing my questions elsewhere.

First, the example shown on their page has a nice X button on the upper right hand side of the image for closing.
The script, when I tried it out, had the X button on the upper left hand side of the image, which also happens to slightly overlap the original thumbnail...ya can't see it. :(
In reference to my virgin status with this stuff...I am lost.

Second, and please, no throwing of used computer parts my way for admiting this in such a forum, I generate my pages using a WYSIWYG program. (hey now! This isn't my job man, I am just too cheap to pay someone else to do it for me, and ya gotta admit they are easy), anywho, after pasting the script into the page, then uploading and testing, when I go back into my program I can't view the page. I can view the source, but this does me no good. What's up? What happened? I had to cut the script out to get back to where I started.

I love the simple black boarder around this pop-up, but not enough to deal with the script altering my editing.
Got another suggestion? Or?

Thanks again for your time,
Beki

[Spookster]

Originally posted by Beki
Hey Roy, thanks for the cool link.
I gave it a try...two problems come up for me, and please let me know if I should be directing my questions elsewhere.

First, the example shown on their page has a nice X button on the upper right hand side of the image for closing.
The script, when I tried it out, had the X button on the upper left hand side of the image, which also happens to slightly overlap the original thumbnail...ya can't see it. :(
In reference to my virgin status with this stuff...I am lost.

Second, and please, no throwing of used computer parts my way for admiting this in such a forum, I generate my pages using a WYSIWYG program. (hey now! This isn't my job man, I am just too cheap to pay someone else to do it for me, and ya gotta admit they are easy), anywho, after pasting the script into the page, then uploading and testing, when I go back into my program I can't view the page. I can view the source, but this does me no good. What's up? What happened? I had to cut the script out to get back to where I started.

I love the simple black boarder around this pop-up, but not enough to deal with the script altering my editing.
Got another suggestion? Or?

Thanks again for your time,
Beki

Did you want a popup window script or a script that does what vladdy was describing. The script you are referring to does not create a popup window but instead a layer in the page which is pretty much what vladdy was telling you.

[Beki]

Originally posted by Spookster
Did you want a popup window script or a script that does what vladdy was describing. The script you are referring to does not create a popup window but instead a layer in the page which is pretty much what vladdy was telling you.

OK..a layer then. :)
I am sorry, just not familiar enough with the terms.
Basically I just want something simple that will allow people to click on the original image to view an enlargement, without having to leave that page.
And preferably one that doesn't muck up my program.

Beki...learning as I go

[Spookster]

Oh ok. I interpreted Vladdy's post as saying you should use a layer that would be contained in the same window, but then it sounded like you didn't want that. You just don't want the person to have to leave the page is all. In that case either way will work.

In my suggestion I mentioned just using popup windows so that the user could look at more than one enlargement at a time and put them side by side if they wanted to compare them.