Digital Workshop

I have a client who frequently puts slideshows of company events on their web site. They would like me to launch some of these from the Opus presentation.

On the web page, I use a simple javascript "new window" script to size the new window:
<a href="#" onClick="window.open('www.dsoftware.biz/slideshows/baseball/slide1.htm','bigPic','width=640,height=550')" title="Slide show of DSI at the Nationals game.">slideshow</a>

I would like to size the window from Opus so that when the Web page opens, it doesn't fill the screen but just a portion of the screen.

Anyone else successfully size external browser windows? Can't seem to find this in Help or Archives. Can I add these parameters to the Action or can I add my little script some where some how to the Action?

Thanks much!

I'm afraid you cannot specify the size or position of externally launched applications . The code you are using is only valid within a browser which can control its own child windows.

The best solution would be to have a chapter set to open in a window of the correct size and a Browser object on the page in that chapter which displays the desired web page.

Margaret,

What you want to do is possible, and relatively easy too!

Here is what I did to achieve what you want to do.

In the HTML editor of your choice, create a small, blank HTML file. In the body tag of the HTML page place your javascript window code.


Save the file.

In Opus create a browser object and set it to initially hidden. Also make sure it doesn't connect automatically when the page loads. I also unchecked the Outline border and status bar checkboxes. I make this browser object 1x1. Next I created a button with a couple of actions.
The first action is to show the browser. The second action navigates to the HTML file that acts as a launcher. You could also set up variables to contain the names of various launcher pages and then use the Navigate Browser to Variable action. Then I put in a Delay action to delay .05. This gives time for the browser to do its thing. I follow that up with a Hide action on the browser. I now have an external browser window sized to the size I specify and has gone to the location I want.

Thanks so much!

I will try these and come back if I have questions. Much appreciated.