Use ActiveX control to simulate a Notes Hotspot popup on the Web

Use ActiveX control to simulate a Notes Hotspot popup on the Web

We all know, that by creating a hotspot popup in notes, and clicking on it will display a small popup. The same can be simulated on the Web. Normal idea is to open a new window and display the text. Rather than doing that, we can use active x controls to display a small beautiful tool tip. It works only on windows machines. Here is the way to do so.


Step 1:
Create an object tag in your html or notes form like:

<OBJECT   id=popup   type="application/x-oleobject"  
 classid="clsid:adb880a6-d8ff-11cf-9377-00aa003b7a11">
;<//OBJECT>

The classid should be exactly the same as above.

Note: To create the object tag, you can directly create them on your form as pass through html, or created a computed for display/computed field and put the object tag as its formula.

Step 2:

Create an ordinary <a href> link
<A HREF=Javascript:ShowPopup()>Tool Tip Text</a>

Step 3:
Inside your script tag in the html head, put the following:

MyFont="Arial,8,,italic";
title="Simulating notes Hotspot popup"

Note: You can put these lines of code in the JSHeader of your form, or create a $$HTMLHead field with this code.

Step 4:
Write the ShowPopup function: 

function ShowPopup()
{
document.getElementById("popup").TextPopup(title,MyFont,10,10,-1,-1);

}

Note: You can also put the function

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in the JSHeader of the form.

Now open your form/html in the browser and click on the link, a small beautiful tool tip help window will appear.

Thanks and Regards
Sekar

This was first published in February 2002

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