Turn a javascript into a javascript function?

PhotoJoe47

10-21-2005, 11:08 AM

Hi you all,

I have some javascript that I have written into the <body> section and it works great. But I would like to make it into a javascript function and define the function in the <head> section. Then in the <body> section write a small bit of javascript that would call the function() object.

Here is section of the code from the htm file as it is now and works as intented.

<div align="center">
<center>
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="90%">

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

var SizeH = '0'; // for height of tumbnail image
var SizeW = '0';// for width of tumbnail image
var nR = '4'; // for number of rows in table
var nC = '5'; // for number of cells per row in table
var nS = '0'; // for count of slides used in table to index an array of image.src

for(row=0; row<=nR-1; row++)
{
document.write("<tr>");
for(cell=0; cell<=nC-1; cell++)
{
nS = cell + (row * nC)
if(arrSize[cell + (nS)] == true)
{
SizeH = '67';
SizeW = '100';
}
else{
SizeH = '100';
SizeW = '67';
}

document.write("<td width='20%' height='116' valign='middle' align='center'>");
document.write('<a href="javascript:winopen(\'../single_Slide.htm\', "' + arrSlidePaths[nS] + '")">');
document.write("<img border='1' src='images/Other/blank.gif' alt = 'Click here'");
document.write("width=" + SizeW + "height=" + SizeH + "></a></td>");

}
document.write("</tr>");
document.write("<tr>");
for(cell=0; cell<=nC-1; cell++)
{
nS = cell + (row * nC)
document.write("<td width='20%' height='20' valign='bottom' align='center'><font face='Comic Sans MS' size='4' color='#CC3300'>" + arrSlideNumbers[nS] + "</font></td>");
}
document.write("</tr>");
}
</script>

</table>
</center>

Now I think if I put all of the above code that is between the <script></script> tags inside a pair of {} brackets and then add this bit of code before the { opening bracket.

function writeCells(NumR, NumC)

Then change:

var nR = '4';
var nc = '5':

to:

var nr = NumR;
var nc = NumC;

I will have correctly define the function, right? And I can move this to the <head> section?

Now in the <body> section I should be able to insert this where I want the rows and cells of the table create.

<div align="center">
<center>
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="90%">

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
writeCells('4', '5');
</script>

</table>
</center>
</div>

Is this correct?

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but I can't seem to get this to work.

PhotoJoe

Roelf

10-21-2005, 11:36 AM

PhotoJoe47

10-21-2005, 12:15 PM

Thanks Roelf,

I copy and pasted you code into my page. At first it didn't work I got an error of "Object expected". I have seen this a few times and looked at the function name both at where it was defined and call. It was defined WriteCells() and called writeCells(). So I change it in the define section to writeCells(). Then I notice an old bug that I had fixed already before. Some of the tumbnails were the wrong size. I had copy and pasted from the wrong version of the page I was writing. So that was easy to fix.

I just needed to change this line:

if(arrSize[cell + (nS)] == true)

to this:

if(arrSize[nS] == true)

Now it is working great.

So this means I can now add the cellWrite() function to my tumbnail.js file.

Thanks again,
PhotoJoe