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I've just gotta ask Doc Ozone a question. I was at the Ander Qvicker AQ Art and Design site the other day ( http://www.aqa-d.se for anyone who doesn't know <IMG SRC="http://www.ozones.com/forum/wink.gif"> ) and I read a thing on his site that says that his javascript was originally written by you. I want to know, because even if you didn't do this bit, you may still know how to do it, how you get images to change in different frames. For example, AQ has a thing that, say, you click on his 'Fun With Filters' link, the set of link buttons on the top frame appears, and if you click on a different link, they change. So I want to know how do you get that kind of effect? I'd love to do that with the interface that will come up at the end of this message. So you could click one of the links on it, and a new set of buttons comes up in a different frame. Here is the interface...<P> <IMG SRC="http://www.geocities.com/freizah/remote3.jpg"> <P>So...what do you think of it. Feel free to comment.<P><P>------------------
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Generally speaking, it's done like this:
You set up an HTML file containing the link buttons and whatever else.
When you make the anchor tag for the button you're clicking on in your left (or whichever) frame, you do it like this:<P>a href="blah.html" target="head"<P>where "blah" is the name of your html file, and "head" is what you name the top/right frame that your buttons appear in.<P>if you want to access it through Javascript, then it's like this: parent.head.src="blah.html"<P>does that help?<P>------------------
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Ws that what you after Skaarjj? Changing the whole page content in another frame? If so, that was a simple and neat answer. If you want to leave the page the same, and change just an image there, you would refer to it in javascript like...<P>parent.framename.imagename.src ="newimage.gif";<P>Or possibly using an image from an array. I'm starting to hide a lot of my core javascript variables up inside the frameset document, and then referring up to them with either "parent.functionname()" or "top.functionname()". It's a nice way to save variables when you need to move around in a site, but want to hold the values from page to page.
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Oh, OK. I was still in "techy" mode. Let's look at the design, OK? The colors are a bit too basic for my taste, strong primal colors, but no real theme. Start with a background color or image, and then your basic foreground interface thing. Make the colors work together. Then pick a highlight theme that goes with both of them. You'll probably also want a good higlight color for special things, and a mouseover theme as well. Think this out early and stick to it, it'll make things look better all around. The bright blue, yellow, green, etc... don't work for me, try and be a bit more subtle. I try and make my interfaces into things you'd like to hold in your hand, won't that bumpy surface be kind of scratchy? Smooth it out a bit, try and design an object, not an image. Good start, but now it needs work and refinement. The shape is hard to judge without seeing it in context, will it work in a page? Try it out on a blank page, try it on for size, you'll get a better grasp of things, and so will I. I'll wait for version 2!<P>------------------
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