Jerry Boling

Jerry,

> I would first like to create my Perfect Popup completely behind the
> scenes as a popunder and then pop it up.

I do not recommend doing this, because the image would have to load, the
resize would have to take place, and then the window would be displayed. In
the meantime, the visitor would be waiting, wondering why nothing happened
when they clicked the link. They would get confused, and probably click the
link again a few times, each time, the link would restart so they would have
to re-wait all over again, meaning a longer wait and more confusion.

They may easily give up waiting, and go somewhere else, and then suddenly
the window would appear, and would look like an unrequested popup. This is
not the way to make friends :)

As a side point, the window would have to appear for a moment, then be
pushed to the back. This would be even more confusing, and may easily make
the visitor think it was a pop-under advert.

> Is this possible?  How would I add this to the code?

all is possible. If you are still sure you want to do it:

after this line:
if( !x ) { return true; }
add this:
if( x.blur ) { x.blur(); }

delete this line:
if( imgWin.focus ) { imgWin.focus(); }

and finally, before this:
'}\n'+
'<\/script>'+
add this:
'if( imgWin.focus ) { imgWin.focus(); }\n'+


Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/

Jerry,

> Is it possible to start
> the popup window near the center of the screen and at a small size, perhaps
> 100x100 pixels?

the variables at the top of the script allow you to do this:
PositionX = 10;
PositionY = 10;
defaultWidth  = 600;
defaultHeight = 400;

You would probably want:
PositionX = window.opera ? 10 : ( ( screen.availWidth / 2 ) - 50 );
PositionY = window.opera ? 10 : ( ( screen.availHeight / 2 ) - 50 );
defaultWidth  = 100;
defaultHeight = 100;