Sometimes it can be useful to invoke a Javascript function from a click or mouseover. You might use these to produce sounds or display images in a particular manner. Just about anything you can do in a Javascript function you can also do from a SiteSpinner link.

Javascript with a click
Invoke a Javascript function from a SiteSpinner link (on image or text) like this:
Link type: -blank-
Link URL: javascript:MyFunction()
Notes:

Change the boldface text to suit your purposes

MyFunction() is the name of the Javascript function you are calling and it can include arguments (parameters) inside the round brackets

Javascript with a mouseover
Invoke a Javascript function from a mouseover by setting a SiteSpinner link on an object like this:
Link Type: -blank-
Link URL: javascript:void('AnythingYouLike')"onmouseover="MyFunction()"
Notes:

The notes for the click above also apply here

AnythingYouLike will be displayed on the status bar, so it is reasonable to use a name which represents what it is doing -- e.g. the name of an image

These mouseovers don't seem to interact with the regular SiteSpinner mouseovers, so you can generally use both effects together. But to use this effect by itself, you don't need a SiteSpinner SpecialFX, just a link.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Bruceee,

you should lose the last set of double quotes in the link statement example above.

rationle:
VM is producing code of the form

<A HREF=" whatever your link statement is "></A>  

so it provides the first and last double quotes for you.

You're right -- that variant also works and has the advantage of being slightly simpler. The AnythingYouLike does not seem to need quotes either. So here's the amended line:

Link URL: javascript:void(AnythingYouLike)"onmouseover="MyFunction()

Hi Bruceee,
I'm not too sure where to ask this question - and I'm not at all sure it concerns SiteSpinner! - but here goes:
My site needs to be viewed in FULL SCREEN mode so this page - and 300 others - on my site http://www.LOCHORAMA.COM/81.html prompts users to press F11 (or F10+a+l if they're using a French keyboard). HOWEVER, probably due to the presence of my java applets, pressing F11 fails to open Fullscreen mode - at least that is the case on my keyboard and a lot of other folks. So French people have to press F10 + A + L - and God knows what key sequence English people have to utilize.
Question: would you happen to know how I could make my "enter Fullscreen mode" button clickable - via a Java script or someother means - by people using keyboards of all nationalities?
Thanks in advance Bruceee. And keep up the good work. SS is the best software I ever bought!

See this thread.

Hi Bruceee,

What kind of use were you thinking of? I know I am being really dim here. I am migrating from a different program so finding my way around Sitespinner, which I am REALLY enjoying.

Best wishes.

Ali

A small suggestion: change javascript:void(AnythingYouWant) to javascript:void()

Since the Void function is going to throw away any values you pass it, save some time and pass it nothing. Also, it is better to use the javascript:void() instead of a URL of "#" when you want a null link. The "#" reference is used to signal a bookmark which causes the browser to look for a null bookmark. If you page uses bookmarks, you could get unexpected results.

Hi

Now I see. That is so handy. Thanks for taking the trouble to reply.

Ali