Table of contents problem (iframe linking) fixed
November 11, 2008
Yesterday I was able to fix the Javascript code that prevented the left-side table of contents from working properly in the Safari and Google Chrome browsers. I tweaked a solution suggested in an online comment (#7) by “inimino” at Targeting an anchor within iFrame; his(?) original code is in the source of this page.
function scrollToFrag(frag){
// Called by clicking on a link in the left-side table of contents in the main page.
// The argument ‘frag’ is the element identifier of a paragraph in the agreement draft,
// which is located is is in an iframe (’ContentFrame’) on the right of the main page.
objTemp=top.frames["ContentFrame"].document.getElementById(frag);
objTemp.style.display=’block’;
tmp = getPos(objTemp);
// getPos is a routine that determines where in the document
// the ‘frag’ paragraph is located
top.frames["ContentFrame"].scrollTo(0,tmp);
// I had to prepend the ‘top.frames["ContentFrame"].’ part
// to make it work in Safari and Google Chrome.
// The original code is more succinct; I expanded it
// for debugging purposes.
}
function getPos(e) {
var y=0;
do{
var yd = e['offsetTop'];
y += isNaN(yd)?0:yd;
e = e.offsetParent;
} while (e && e!=document.body);
return y;
}
Radio button problem solved
August 1, 2008
Late last night I noticed that the radio buttons in my clauses weren’t working. Uh oh; what’d I do?
Fortunately I’m using the Firebug add-on debugger with my Firefox browser. That let me track the problem down fairly quickly: A week ago I’d commented out what I thought was dead code, but it wasn’t - its absence was what broke the radio buttons. I uncommented the code, and things work fine.
Instruction page now has screen shots
July 5, 2008
Pure-text help pages are pretty boring. So this evening I used Wink, an open-source screencasting program, to capture a quick series of screen shots. Still in Wink, I added some call-outs and circled highlights. Then I used the Wink “Export” feature to save the project as an HTML with JPG images.
Finally, I added the images to the Instructions page. You can see it via the menu near the top of this page. The screen shots make for a much nicer help page than just plain text.
I plan to do a video demo too. I won’t be using Wink, because its audio codec is awful. The narration sounds great in Wink, but then when rendered into a complete Flash file it sounds terrible. I’ve been playing with Camtasia, which seems to be the leading package, albeit a bit pricey.
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