Topic awaiting preservation: swap image script problems... help?!

www.chez.com/arlechinu/main.htm
this is where i've been using a swap image script
but the problem is that i can't make it work the way i want

let me explain:
on mouse over -> a double swap image
on mouse out -> another double swap image (back to the initial state)

BUT, i want an on click thing that keeps one of the two swaps and does not return to the initial state
maybe if you take a look at the code you'll understand better what i'm talking about here...

i understand that the problem is the on mouse out command that switches the pic to the initial state, but i don't seem to be able to make the pic remain in the way it is after the on mouse over...

if you look at the page, the 5 small buttons on the small interface have a on mouse over and an on mouse out behaviour; what i want to do is to make one of the swaped images stay swaped on click...

and the problem remains... even if i could make the pic stay swaped, the other on mouse over behaviours would not work because the src of the title pic is changed (so it is not the blank pic's src)

could anyone here take a look at the code and tell me if i'm doing something wrong?




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I don't have enough time right now to go through your code but let me offer a few ideas.

When you click on any choice you should switch to that page *and* save the image id of that page in a temporary variable. Then every time you do an onmouseout, instead of swapping in the id of the blank image just swap in the id of the id in your temporary variable. I think that would do what you want. Does that make sense?

how about setting a temp variable that sets to 'true' if clicked. then on your mouseout code, swap back if the image clicked was not set to true. does that make sense?

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Alright I get it.

Try this, change your links to look like this:

<area shape="rect" coords="0,50,8,57" href="javascript: void(0)" onclick="changeActive(0 ,'about')" onMouseOver="newscreen('title1','about'); newscreen('thingy1','thingy2')" onMouseOut="newscreen('title1','title'); newscreen('thingy1','thingy')" >

Then change the changeActive funtion to look like so.

function changeActive(num, objectsrc){

	oScroll[active].css.visibility='hidden'

	active=num

	oScroll[active].css.top=0

	oScroll[active].css.visibility='visible'

	title.src = eval(objectsrc+".src")

}

Does this make sense?

I think it's the effect you are going for, trying to keep the active section Title in the bar.



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I think Bugimus solution is the simplest, use a single global var.

in the HEAD javascript put

var defaultTitle = "title";

then simply change your links to

<area shape="rect" coords="0,50,8,57" href="#"
onclick="changeActive(0);defaultTitle='about'"
onMouseOver="newscreen('title1','about'); newscreen('thingy1','thingy2')"
onMouseOut="newscreen('title1',defaultTitle); newscreen('thingy1','thingy')" >

<area shape="rect" coords="0,58,8,65" href="#"
onclick="changeActive(1;defaultTitle='resources')"
onMouseOver="newscreen('title1','resources'); newscreen('thingy1','thingy2')"
onMouseOut="newscreen('title1',defaultTitle); newscreen('thingy1','thingy')">

www.chez.com/arlechinu/main2.htm

bitdamaged, thanx!
it works just fine now!
and RoyW... your solution is kinda the same... anyway, they both work, but i really am too bored to edit the source again so i'll just leave it as bitdamaged suggested
thanx anyway!

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