Template for Popup Pictures

[JCO]

I want to create a popup that will display pictures. I want to use my own
template for this popup. I have about 16 pictures on the first page. I
have a master page with all the pictures (sort of like thumbnails) that I
want to put hotspots on. Wants the hotspot (hyperlink) is selected, I want
the picture to appear on the popup (filling the template).

I think this would be done layers but not sure. Can't all the pictures be
on the popup page? Then can't the hyperlink (hotspot) show the particular
layer and hide the others?

If this is a logical way to proceed, can somebody help in creating the code
for this to happen?

Thanks

 

[Trevor L.]

JCO,

I am a home user, but I think what you want may be similar to my situation
where I have a page of thumbnails, and when you click on any one, another
page opens on top.

JIMCO's Spawn http://www.jimcoaddins.com/Default.aspx appears to do the job
quite well - I have only just obtained it, but I am happy with how it works.
Jim is a contributor to this site, so I hope he can see that his work is
being recommended.
--
Cheers,
Trevor L.



I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you?
http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html

 

[JCO]

Yes, I use the same spawn technique. I think, what I was trying to get
across is this. I did not want 16 popups. I want one popup that uses my
template. Part of the template will hold the picture. I want the picture
to change on the existing popup rather than having another popup occur.

My thought was to use layers. Allow the layers to hide/unhide depending on
the thumbnail that is touched.
Thanks for your input.

 

[Wes]

I think Jalbum might be what you're looking for.

Yes, I use the same spawn technique. I think, what I was trying to get
across is this. I did not want 16 popups. I want one popup that uses my
template. Part of the template will hold the picture. I want the picture
to change on the existing popup rather than having another popup occur.

My thought was to use layers. Allow the layers to hide/unhide depending
on
the thumbnail that is touched.
Thanks for your input.

 

[Andrew Murray]

You could use a database system, which will in your query e.g.

www.yoursite.com/photos.asp?photo=dog&id=26

in which instance "photo" is the category and 'id' is the number of the
photo in that category if you have 3 dozen photos of your dog/s. To display
a specific picture, the query could be

www.yoursite.com/photos.asp?photo=dog&id=5.

Or if you want display all in that category, the query would be

www.yoursite.com/photos.asp?photo=dog

or if you want to display all photos in all categories the query would be
www.yoursite.com/photos.asp


etc, in this case you would put the full hyperlink in, and in the Spawn
addin, use www.yoursite.com/photos.asp as the URL and add the query string
to the end to filter out the records you want to see (and do this one record
at a time).

Frontpage generates a "back and forward" button, but you can basically look
through them like a slideshow.

Use the Database results wizard, and search help for how to insert an image
in a database/results wizard page. It is quite simple.

The above requires ASP on your server.

Or an alternative is www.ezscripting.co.uk - has a range of scripts (Free
and Pay-for) that uses flat-text files and Perl scripts.

I'm sure there are others out there for php as well.

www.hotscripts.com might be a good place to start looking for scripts to do
what you want.

In terms of the template, just design a page in the way you want, and it
will be used to display the records.

 

[Ronx]

Layers, in your scenario, is one thing to avoid. Using layers will require
all your large images to be downloaded onto one page - a possibly huge
download.

An IFrame would work though, instead of layers.
The links on the image map would have to target the IFrame.