Spawn new window

chrisss · November 22, 2013, 9:53pm

I would like to use the “spawn new window” action with the slim “ipad friendly” design, but without the background fading away/being almost white.

Any suggestions? Thank you!

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waltd · November 22, 2013, 10:02pm

Does that Action allow you to specify a background shade image? You could just substitute a clear PNG for the default if it does. If that doesn’t work, post a link to the page: there’s definitely a bit of CSS you can add to the page to hide that image.

Walter

On Nov 22, 2013, at 4:53 PM, chrisss wrote:

I would like to use the “spawn new window” action with the slim “ipad friendly” design, but without the background fading away/being almost white.

Any suggestions? Thank you!

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chrisss · November 22, 2013, 10:14pm

Hey Walter,

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately there is not such option. I would love to post the link, but I’m already out of my office. Tomorrow I will send the link.

Thank you again!

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David_McCallum · November 22, 2013, 10:30pm

This page has Spawn New Window links on it - http://www.deltadesign.co/fw_examples/fwactions/linktonew.html

The lower ones on the page use the iPad friendly setting

without the background fading away/being almost white.

What do you want instead?

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waltd · November 22, 2013, 10:38pm

The OP doesn’t like the white “windowshade”.

Try adding this to the head of your page, using the Page/HTML Markup dialog, in the Before section:

<style type="text/css">
	#snwItem { background-image: none !important; }
</style>

That may actually do what you need.

Walter

On Nov 22, 2013, at 5:30 PM, DeltaDave wrote:

This page has Spawn New Window links on it - http://www.deltadesign.co/fw_examples/fwactions/linktonew.html

The lower ones on the page use the iPad friendly setting

without the background fading away/being almost white.

What do you want instead?

D

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David_McCallum · November 23, 2013, 1:23am

Try adding this to the head of your page, using the Page/HTML Markup dialog, in the Before section:

I think the problem with this method is that this is written into the page as an inline style

<div id="snwItem" style="position:fixed; top:0px; left:0px;  z-index:1000; background-image:url(../../Resources/blanking-out.png);

I would probably hack the action files and stick my own ‘blanking-out.png’ into the actions Support Files folder.

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waltd · November 23, 2013, 1:49am

I have been surprised in the past by the sheer power of the !important flag. A style in the head can blank out an inline style. A style in a separate sheet can blank out a style in the head.

Walter

On Nov 22, 2013, at 8:23 PM, DeltaDave wrote:

Try adding this to the head of your page, using the Page/HTML Markup dialog, in the Before section:

I think the problem with this method is that this is written into the page as an inline style
<div id="snwItem" style="position:fixed; top:0px; left:0px;  z-index:1000; background-image:url(../../Resources/blanking-out.png);
I would probably hack the action files and stick my own ‘blanking-out.png’ into the actions Support Files folder.

D

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chrisss · November 23, 2013, 4:47pm

hey guys,

thanks for your help!

unfortunately method 1 (walter) does not make any change.
Since I´m pretty much a beginner, I can not figure out exactly, what method 2 (deltadave) is about.

Could anyone explain me a little more how to “hack the action” or how to insert the code from Dave.

Thank you so much,

Christof

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David_McCallum · November 23, 2013, 10:31pm

What effect are you trying to achieve - currently you get a white transparent background that covers the page.

Do you want a particular colour or none at all?

Not sure what OS you are using but the action files are stored in HD>Library>Application Support>Freeway Pro>Actions on Snow Leopard and below

Find the Spawn New Window Suite.fwactionb file and Right Click to get ‘Show Package Contents’

Once in there drill down Contents>Resources>Actions>Support Files~>blanking-out.png

If you want your own colour effect then you will need to make your own blanking-out.png (200px x 200px semi transparent graphic) and replace the existing one.

For no colour effect you can make a totally transparent file instead.

Dont worry about cocking it up as you can always get a new version of the action file from Spawn New Window - ActionsForge

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David_McCallum · November 24, 2013, 1:55am

So if you revisit the example page and click on the iPad friendly link on http://www.deltadesign.co/fw_examples/fwactions/linktonew.html

You will see the effect using this graphic instead

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chrisss · November 24, 2013, 12:25pm

YES!

Thank you DeltaDave, nice workaround for a beginner

When I tried your link I was wondering why the action “link to new window” shows a window with no addressbar (what I like). Because when I use this action the new window always shows the bar (which I don´t like) BTW no matter what browser I use.

Is ther another trick?
Anyway thanks again for your detailed reply!!!

chris

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David_McCallum · November 24, 2013, 12:41pm

I was wondering why the action “link to new window” shows a window with no addressbar (what I like)

Different action to ‘Spawn New Window’ - the ‘Link to new Window’ action gives you options like whether you want the Toolbar or Scrollbars to show or not.

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chrisss · November 24, 2013, 2:23pm

the ‘Link to new Window’ action gives you options like whether you want the Toolbar or Scrollbars to show or not

Ok, but no matter wether I check or uncheck it in the action, toolbar always appears…

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David_McCallum · November 24, 2013, 4:25pm

Your example online?

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Paul4 · November 25, 2013, 11:36am

On 24 Nov 2013, 1:23 pm, chrisss wrote:

the ‘Link to new Window’ action gives you options like whether you want the Toolbar or Scrollbars to show or not

Ok, but no matter wether I check or uncheck it in the action, toolbar always appears…

Most browsers do this now as a security measure - in the past it was possible to ping new windows open, and disguise the contents as an OS native window. You can imagine what naughtiness would be achieved with such things. So browsers tend to restrict what can be hidden these days, just so you know that what‘s being displayed is a web page and where it’s come from.

I am also aware of the need to change the background colour. I’m looking at this, but wanting to use RGBa now instead of a transparent PNG. There’s a spot of a corner I’ve written myself into with this, and I need to write myself out of it. So it will happen just as soon as I’ve found a way to do it.

And I’ll look at moving the CSS to the HEAD tag too.

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carla · April 15, 2014, 3:10am

Hey David et al
I am using the spawn window action for first time… normally I use link to window… but thought to give this a try…

the background white is fine but I would like my text in a different font, color and the pop up window has a grey background instead of white…

thx
Carla

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David_McCallum · April 15, 2014, 10:02pm

the background white is fine but I would like my text in a different font, color and the pop up window has a grey background instead of white……

Can you post a link to what you have currently and be more specific about what you want it to look like ie what font, what color etc.

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carla · April 15, 2014, 10:06pm

Hey Dave all good I successfully used scripty accordion action for this . Its more of what I want… How the heck are you doing over yonder in Glasgow?!

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David_McCallum · April 15, 2014, 10:11pm

All good here Carla - Easter holidays are into the second week for the kids (and my missus) - and she is nagging me to take time off.

What’s new!

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carla · April 15, 2014, 10:14pm

Ha! well at least Im not bugging you like I used to… ha! take time to rest plz… all good here…

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