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Popup Link

Link to Reviews
April 3, 2003 by Bob Cochrane
I would like to read the reviews for this extension but can not find the link to them?
Will this extension work with DreamWeaver MX?
but the new browser window does not reflect http_referer
June 3, 2003 by Alan Chua

This does look neat.

but when the pop p page has a request.servervariable("http_referer") on it, it doesn't work. Does anyone knows how to solve this?

 

regards

RE: Link to Reviews
June 13, 2003 by Marja Ribbers-de Vroed

There were no reviews until you posted this comment  :-)
And yes, it does work in MX.

Regards, Marja

RE: but the new browser window does not reflect http_referer
June 13, 2003 by Marja Ribbers-de Vroed

Sorry, I don't know a solution.
I guess, as this extension opens a new window, there just is no 'referer'.

Regards, Marja

I like this extention
August 1, 2003 by Patrick Akin

I downloaded this extention about 2 months ago or so,and it has become a big part in my web development.  I like the simple to use settings.  The only problem I have is getting it to work right with a splash site.  I have to set it to stay on the onMouse instead of onClick because of the fact that onClick interfers with the onMouse image.  Not to big of a deal though.  Most of the time I just make only one color of text for the links that have popup activities.  But this is by far the best extention I've ever had the privlage to come across.

popuplink xtnz won't install
August 8, 2003 by Cata Saunders
sounds like a great extension... now if only it would recognize that I HAVE DWMX and would install I would be thrilled! It keeps telling me that I need to have DW4 or greater. I run OSX10.2+ so, what's the deal?
RE: popuplink xtnz won't install
August 14, 2003 by Marja Ribbers-de Vroed

This is a known Extension Manager bug.
Try installing the extension with DW open and restart DW afterwards.

RE: RE: popuplink xtnz won't install
August 14, 2003 by Cata Saunders
I did. I tried it open, closed... it just won't recognize it. Maybe someone can make a fix for this bug? I really like your work! thanks for the reply. Cat
RE: RE: RE: popuplink xtnz won't install
August 14, 2003 by Cata Saunders
Okay, I worked around the bug. Here is what I did, just in case someone else is having this issue: I had DWMX open and I closed off all the browsers and other progs. I then opened Command>Manage Extensions... and then I installed! It worked this time!
:-)
September 14, 2003 by . .
works GREAT!!  thanks a million!!
All time handiest extension, BUT
October 14, 2003 by Stephen Bean

I LOVE this extension! I do a lot of pages that need to open new windows and have been using several different extensions/scripts to place and size the windows. Then I started needing to move certain windows to the top and more and it all got soft of crazy. I stumbled on this and it is WONDERFUL. I've gone in and replaced literally hundreds of behaviors with this script.

Then with all those done, up jumped the bug. I only post this here, because I am confident a "fix" will be forthcoming.

A strange thing is happening in DW MX. If I apply the Popup Link to a button in my navbar on the template (an uneditable region) and then apply it to content within an editable region, two strange things happen. 1- The script "function MM_preloadImages()" gets moved into the editable region and becomes visible in the page. 2 - Subsequent uses of the script in the editable region are displayed as in the behaviors as "Custom Script" and cannot be edited and do not open a new window.

Now, I spent hours upon hours adding this script to countless links in identical pages and it always worked. BUT, if I try to create a page from a template with this behavior installed, it messes up.

I've recreated several templates and always get the same results. BUT - I am pulling my hair out to make this extension work because I like it so much. I like having my links visible in the status bar instead of "Javascript" or "Null" and I like having the links show up when my site gets spidered. This is just a freakish little nuisance.

Will the Advanced Open Window do all that Popup Link does? I'll pay for it I love it so much - assuming it works.

RE: All time handiest extension, BUT
October 15, 2003 by Marja Ribbers-de Vroed

Stephen, I will look into this template issue.

Regards, Marja

Very Nice Extension
October 16, 2003 by Everett Padgett

Using it with MX and MX 2004, very nice extension. I have to admit, all of FlevOOware extensions are of top quality. Keep up the good work.

RE: RE: All time handiest extension, BUT
October 16, 2003 by Marja Ribbers-de Vroed

This turned out to be a bug in Dreamweaver's template handling, and it has been reported to Macromedia.
The problem is not specific to Popup Link: every behavior is at risk, even MM's own standard DW behaviors.

To avoid this issue, do the following:

  • make sure the template has an editable region named 'head' in the HEAD section of the page,
  • make sure that editable region is located just before the </head> tag,
  • move your JS functions to an externally linked JS file, rather than leaving them in the template itself.
Popup Link v1.4
January 20, 2004 by Dennis Plum
popup link
January 28, 2004 by Andreas menzies

Very good but the windows does not render the windows attributes properly and the Close Window link does not appear as it does in the Demo.

Otherwise great!

madonna
April 22, 2004 by da silva rocha
Margins
June 13, 2004 by Jonathan Johansson
How do I get rid of the white margins?
RE: Margins
June 13, 2004 by Marja Ribbers-de Vroed
By specifying 0 margins in the page your displaying in the popup.
Margins
June 13, 2004 by Jonathan Johansson
So it's not possible to get rid of the margins if I'm linking directly to an image file?
RE: Margins
June 14, 2004 by Marja Ribbers-de Vroed
Not with this extension. For that purpose you may want to check out JustSo Picture Window (http://www.valleywebdesigns.com/vwd_jspw3.asp)
Open and stay Popup Link always on top
June 15, 2004 by Heinz Schweiger

Hello Marja!

I like this extension very much but I search for a possibility that the open Popup Link always stay on the top. That means if I had click another popup link, the existing popup link disappear and moves under the mainwindow into the program taskbar. I search for a solution that all linked popup links stay over the mainwindow, so that I can move the popup link window and maybe compare the content between the two popup windows.

Maybe you have solution for that.

Best regards

Heinz

 

RE: Open and stay Popup Link always on top
June 15, 2004 by Marja Ribbers-de Vroed

No, I'm sorry but I don't have a solution for that.

There is a way to keep a popup window always on top, but that introduces significant issues, because other (popup) windows will more or less become impossible to access.

not showing all options
November 15, 2004 by kath human

Works great!

Only thing is that in Dreamweaver 4, it only shows down to the 'dreamweaver 4 attributes' section as far as seeing the first line of ticks, but no further.

Also, is there a way of adding in a 'close window' button or link?

Thanks!
September 3, 2006 by Ahamed Iqbal
Marja, Thanks for the extension, very easy to use and gets the job done. Great solution for keeping the popups to the front. Thanks again, Ahamed
nice
January 27, 2007 by . .
nice bit of kit! cheers
Best Pop-Up Extension I've Used Yet
April 20, 2009 by Andy Laverdiere, Jr.
Best Pop-Up Extension I've Used Yet!
April 20, 2009 by Andy Laverdiere, Jr.

Great job, Marja!
    This extension has allowed me to replace several different extensions scripts I was using prior to finding it.  The greatest feature is the "Move window to top when re-activated".  This will keep a visitor's screen clean of a bunch of pop-ups or from the pop-up getting buried each time they want to view the next record's unique information for a particular field.

Thanks for this handy tool!  

download link not working
November 14, 2010 by Krishna Badarla

Your download link pops up showing as working but  download doesn't start