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RE: Image plus Text Viewer (HTA) - 11/18/2006 9:28:38 PM
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TNO
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Not a bad idea, but the user friendliness is pretty limited for the things you mentioned.
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-You can't modify the size of the window: It's either maximized or "reduced".
-You can't realy minimize it. The minimize button will reduce it on a small area in the right bottom of the screen.
-No context menu on the task bar.
For these bugs, why don't you just delete this part of your code to fix it?
BORDER="none"
With that you can also eliminate your 2 buttons (and related functions) for close and minimize. A program like this that goes fullscreen could easily irritate the user (unless it was a game or something like that where they would expect it).
Suggestions:
- Use fullscreen when the user clicks on an image
- put all the picture comment textfiles in one spot so they arent scattered all over the hard drive
- For your list of picture files, make it so the mouse-cursor becomes a hand when you hover on it
And finally, could you include openfolblack.gif here on the board so we could see what the program looks like with it?
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RE: Image plus Text Viewer (HTA) - 11/19/2006 6:00:24 AM
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Thanks for your suggestiong TNO.
Do you know how to do suggestions 1 and 3?
1: How to switch to real full screen from a bordered window and vice versa.
3: How to change the mouse cursor while hovering
For suggestion 2: There are pro and cons.
First they are not scattered all over the place: they are where the pictures are and if you sort the files by name they will be next to each others.
I was thinking to put all the comments in one file per folder (comments.txt for example)
But that could complicate the search, editing or deletion of these comments with possible performance hit. The same with storing all the file in a single folder.
One singel file per folder is good for small comments (like 30 words each). It's less good for long comments like 500 words each. It depends what you want to do.
Maybe I will add some code to find both image-specific text file and comment.txt if it exists.
This way the user can choose to store the comments in a single files or in multiple file.
Here is the "open folder" 'icon'.
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< Message edited by Fredledingue -- 11/19/2006 6:11:16 AM >
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RE: Image plus Text Viewer (HTA) - 11/19/2006 6:08:25 AM
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Here is the complete "readme" file.
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RE: Image plus Text Viewer (HTA) - 11/21/2006 7:52:35 AM
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Fredledingue
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I have added the onmouseover cursor style.
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ORIGINAL: TNO
There a few ways to change the cursor, but I think the best way for your program would be like this:
<span onmouseover="this.style.cursor='hand'" onmouseout="this.style.cursor='auto'">blah</span>
This:
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heres the fullscreen method:
document.open(sUrl [, sName] [, sFeatures] [, bReplace])
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document.open('about:blank','win1','fullscreen=yes')
...doesn't work for hta applications.
The only way is to create two hta's, one opening in full screen, the other one in normal screen.
Then switching from one to the other. That requires closing the application and opening the other one with the same parameters.
I'v tried resizing and repositioning off the screen. That works for repositioning, not for resizing.
Top and left borders disapear, not right and bottom borders and the taskbar is always visible.
There is realy poor window view management in hta... 
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For suggeston 2.....You culd always try an XML file:
Maybe I will study XML in the future... 
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RE: Image plus Text Viewer (HTA) - 11/22/2006 2:46:45 AM
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Fredledingue
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That code open a new blank IE window in full screen. It doesn't resize the hta window.
Moreover if you try to open an hta application with this method, you will be warned that it can damage your computer, then prompted to save it on your hard drive.
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RE: Image plus Text Viewer (HTA) - 11/22/2006 9:18:33 AM
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Fredledingue
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ORIGINAL: TNO
I was thinking of making the image display portion open in a fullscreen mode.
Not a bad idea! I didn't think about that... I will try this solution.
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The window attributes of an HTA are readonly defined at startup, so as a work-around guess you could document.write() the html of your HTA into the fullscreen pop-up window, then make it close when the window loses focus, hence giving the illusion of toggling modes.
I'm not sure if it will work properly or efficiently because some script won't benefit from the hta security waiver.
While trying to figure this out I came across this interesting piece of HTA ingenuity:
Nice. There are many things to do!
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