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Message posted by tomax on October-22-2010 at 2:05am

January-24-2009
120 Posts

I would like to create a new popup windows in tw6 and to insert a webpage (ex: www.exemple.com)... without opening standard browser window. Is that possible?

Message posted by donald on October-22-2010 at 4:22am

China
October-22-2010
114 Posts

Hello Tomax,

The answer is "YES" ! Only 3 simple steps:-)

Step one: create a pupwindow

Step two:add a text to the pupwindow and type the webpage(ex: http://www.123456789.com) in the hint box

step three:click the preview button to preview.

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This is donald from easypano,welcome you to use our products and visit our forum.

Message posted by smooth on October-22-2010 at 8:31am

Australia
November-23-2002
5401 Posts

What?

Please explain this (Better) and show a working example.

Regards, Smooth

Message posted by offliner63 on October-22-2010 at 9:02am

Estonia
May-08-2009
23 Posts

I did not understand that as well:) Actually I have upcoming project where I need this function as well. I talked to my programmer and he said it possible to make it similar to what we did in this project
http://virtuaaltuur.virukeskus.com/en
(if you go inside and open stor info hotspots)

will let you know how it goes.

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Marek
www.real24.ee
www.3dsolutions.eu

Message posted by madmux on October-22-2010 at 2:13pm

Lithuania
August-03-2010
246 Posts

Actually, the code above doesn't open webpage in a popup window, but does something more.
When executing getAjaxContent it executes the function which gets the specific content from the website (the parameter must be some article's to be displayed id).
In order to open a website in a popup window you can use simpler approach:
1) In the tour html page you need to create container which contains iframe with website's address and set the container to be invisible, some kind of:
<div id="popup" style="display: none;"><iframe ....></div>
2) upon some event to execute javascript: getElementById("popup").style.display = "block";
3) upon some other event to close popup window executing: getElementById("popup").style.display = "none";

If you'll try this approach, then keep in mind that this is the idea which should work, but i didn't checked the syntax which might be a little incorrect.

Best wishes,
Madmux

Message posted by smooth on October-23-2010 at 4:06am

Australia
November-23-2002
5401 Posts

While the suggestions are valid. The question being posed is can you call an external .html page into a Tourweaver Pop-Up window? Not a new browser window.

Much like you can call a Google map into a Pop-Up window people would like to call "any" .html of their choice into the same. Even if it is limited to "some" html tags and not all.

At least this is how I read the question being asked by Tomax. Basically a chromeless .html window with Flash.

Regards, Smooth

Message posted by madmux on October-23-2010 at 5:02am

Lithuania
August-03-2010
246 Posts

I'll try to answer the questions on what is possible:
1) "can you call an external .html page into a Tourweaver Pop-Up window?"
No, technicaly it is impossible. Flash has an html renderer, but with very minimal capabilities, basicly it can render paragraphs, make text bold, italic, it can align text and include pictures. Nowehere near rendering full-featured html page.
But there are some workarounds... (read further)

2) "can you call an external .html page into <skip> the same window? Not a new browser window."
Yes, you can do some trick to make user actually think that the displayed website resides actually in a tourweaver popup window. Also the approach i described above is about displaying external website in the same TW window. When using javascript which can be called from TW you are also capable to position external website for the specific TW popup position. An example is here:
http://www.themidnightcoders.com/blog/2006/12/mixing-html-and-flex-using-iframe.html

P.S.: While we have a lot of possibilities and layered (flash/html) solutions might look nice, all the approaches suffer from performance, accessibility problems. So, the best approach would be some alternative:
* use popup in a new browser window;
* create a flash app to read external content (for example using rss) and render it nicely.

Best wishes,
Madmux

Message posted by smooth on October-23-2010 at 5:32am

Australia
November-23-2002
5401 Posts

Great!

But that is a long way from Donald of Easypano suggested. I guess he was suggesting only the way to offer a hyperlink and this bought about the confusion.

Regards, Smooth

Message posted by smooth on October-28-2010 at 3:02am

Australia
November-23-2002
5401 Posts

Donald,

Probably a good idea to fix your signature!

Actually the sentence is some good Chinglish

Regards, Smooth

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