External Popups

I then moved the eBook to my laptop which has Win 98 (IE5) and it all works except although my external popups do pop up, there is not sign of the contents, just "cannot find server" and "page could not be displayed".

Based on comments on another thread I have tried dropping the security settings to low on my Internet Explorer options, but no improvement, even after a reboot.

I have copied the .html files into the same directory as the ebook.exe file, as well as to the root directory ( C: ), and my C:/Downloads directory. Still No improvement.

If you change the location of the .html file, then you have to change the info in the javascript.

When doing an address in javascript, it can't have the Forward Slash /  It has to be a Back Slash \ .  

IE.  C:\downloads  not C:/downloads

If you put the file in the same folder as the ebook.exe, then the address in the popup script has to be pointing to that file in that folder.

Don't know if you have tried all of this but it is some place to start.  There really shouldn't be a problem as far as changing computers, just file location and addressing to the file.

Thanks for you suggestions. Unfortunately I still have the issue.

I have ceated an ebook directory structure on my Win98 machine, which is identical to the one on my WinXP machine and have put the popup html files in the same directory on both machines. However I still get a blank popup with a 'Cannot find server' message.

My javascript reads as follows:-

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function popUp(URL) {
day = new Date();
id = day.getTime();
eval("page" + id + " = window.open(URL, '" + id + "', 'toolbar=0,scrollbars=0,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=0,width=280,height=120');";
}
// End -->
</script>

<a href="javascript:popUp('farang.html')">
       <font color="#FFFFFF">farang</font></a></font>

So although the file farang.html is in the same directory as the one where I compile my ebook, I have not specified a directory within the script itself and assume that the active ebook compiler adds the required directory to the address.

The reason I also tested putting farang.html in my root directory was in case it didn't.

Any other ideas please.

Thanks

In Windows XP, when you click on the eBook.exe, a temporary directory gets created:-

C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp\e\42564-021022-200435-09.a2k\

where the numbers represent the ESBN of the eBook.

This folder contains html files and images. All html files will have a prefix added to their name, eg. a file  called '*** xx.html' will be renamed to '__enc_*** xx.html'

When I invoke the external popup the required html file named '*** xx.html' will mysteriously appear in this directory and the popup will display successfully.

The same ebook.exe opened under Windows 98 will create a temporary directory called:-

C:\Windows\Temp\e\42564-021022-200435-09.a2k\

Which is different to the loation of the temp directory under Windows XP. The html files will have the same prefix attached.

Under Windows 98 when I click on the link for the popup, the '*** xx.html' file does not appear in the temporary directory and the popup appears with the message 'cannot find server'. However if I copy the '*** xx.html' file into this directory, it operates correctly.

Put this code between the head tags...

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

function Start(page){OpenWin = this.open(page, "CtrlWindow","toolbar=No,menubar=No,location=No,scrollbars=No,resizable=No,status=No,width=280,height=120,left=50,top=50," );}

</SCRIPT>

And the following script in the body where you want the link to appear...

<a href="javascript:void(0);"onclick="javascript:Start ('farang.html');"><b>Farang</b></a>

Hope that Helps.

Allan.

Is the html page that the popup calls (farang.html) compiled in the e-book?

If not you will have problems. I think you will need an ActivScript. I'm suffering similar problems with a javascript file and hoping for help through this forum.

Yes, the popup .htmls including farang.html are included in the ebook at compile time. In addition when copying the eBook to my Win 98 machine, I have also transferred the popup htmls along with the ebook.exe, and have created an identical directory structure for them on the Win 98 machine.

Still the same result.

Again these popups are populated on my Win XP system, but are empty on my Win 98 system.

If anyone feels like experimenting, the test book can be downloaded from here:-

http://www.roaring-tigers.com/download/testbook 111102 01.exe

It is just over 500Kb.

I would appreciate any feedback.

I think I saw you suggest this to someone else in an earlier message, but I mis-understood what you meant.

 Your book and the popups look great on NT 4.00!  Glad you've resolved the bugs.

 best -

Thanks for the feedback. Actually it is my girlfriend's eBook (I am just the technician) and the full version is now downloadable (for a fee) from her web sitehttp://www.thai-food-recipes.com/

The style of the book is very close to that of the web site itself (which includes a few free Thai recipes).

Cheers

Tony