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I guess I’m just really curious by nature. I always have been.
My first programming job didn’t initially involve any programming. I worked as a tech monkey for a mid-size catalog retailer in the mid 90’s. I sprung the idea to them to make a website to sell online. We initially bought a out-of-the-box e-commerce package called Inex, but soon found that it didn’t quite meet all of our needs. Being the cheap company that it was, they didn’t want to spend the money to contract the modifications out, so I took it upon myself to reverse engineer the classic VBScript ASP it was written in and make the modifications myself. Been hacking code ever since.
Nowadays I spend the majority of my time working with Adobe Flex or JavaScript on the client side, and Java or PHP server side. I’m a senior engineer for Alphabay.
I have a beautiful wife, Janae, and two wonderful kids: Elle and, the new arrival, Gabriel. In the evenings if I’m not out playing with the family, I’m usually playing one of my two favorite games: Counter Strike: Source or World of Warcraft.
Hi,
I made some modifications to your ajax help balloon. Specifically I added a zIndex property to some of the elements to ensure topmost order, because in some page configurations, elements would be mixed below and on top of the help balloon. I set the zIndex of these elements to 300.
I figured the least I could do was post back the changes..:
Changes to HelpBalloon.js:
in _initialize():
balloonStyle: { //Balloon styling
position: ‘absolute’,
border: ‘none’,
background: ‘white’,
width: ‘300px’,
height: ‘240px’,
display: ‘none’,
zIndex: 300
},
and in function _draw():
this._elements.inner.style.zIndex = 300;
title.style.zIndex = 300;
closer.style.zIndex = 300;
contents.style.zIndex = 300;
Regards,
Guido Docter
We would like to use the help_balloons on a web application that uses open source components, but is a commercial application. What license models do you support. From our point of view, the MIT license is good. But I’m not sure about yours, other than the copy right.
I too am inquiring about licensing. I would like to use the help balloons in a commercial website. What do I need to know regarding the copyright etc.
Beau,
Love the stuff you’ve got here - I need to use atleast 2 ‘widgets’ in a commercial project. What’s your license?
-Bob
I really need to get on the ball and add licenses to each of the widgets. I’m probably going to use LGPL for the most part, unless there’s some major reason anyone would need MIT instead.
Beau
Hi,
sorry if I post here but I did not find a better place.
Can you please post the source for this example ttp://www.beauscott.com/examples/FlexSessionExamples/ ?
Thank you
I too would like to include this in some work I’m doing for the Fedora Project but I need to know what License it is released under. Any idea when we’ll have that?
hello
how can i resize that balloon?
i’ve already tried with
var hb5 = new HelpBalloon({
title: ‘Item Details’,
content: ‘This balloon is cool!’,
useEvent: ['mouseover'],
balloonDimensions: [500,500]
});
BUT it still doesn’t work!!
help please?
Hello,
I am using version 2 of the help balloons. One of the behaviors I would like is for the help balloon to stay up whenever the cursor is over the anchoring icon, as well as over the help balloon. I’ve set an autoTimeOut, and that is working well when the cursor is in the balloon. But the time out is not being re-queued when it is over the anchoring icon, but not in the balloon. Some of our users are confused by this behavior.
Anything you can suggest to help would be appreciated.
Thanks
We can resize the balloon using photo editor like microsoft office picture manager. it is very good stuff and api to modify.
Thank you..
Hi Beau - just added some functionality to the Ajax Stars script so that you can select half-stars. Did it really quickly so I’m sure it could be optimised further, but if you’re interested in seeing the code send me an email and I’ll flick it through.
Greetings All,
Regarding the post by Guido on Nov 23, 2006 about adding a zIndex property to deal with ensuring topmost order, it helped me immensely. I use a java menu within the content of my page to help users navigate all the content, and the HelpBalloon worked great in IE, but in FF and Chrome the HelpBalloon was hidden behind the screens java menu. The menu was “QuickMenu” by OpenCube.
So using the prior post I modified HelpBalloon.js with the following, and now HelpBalloon lays nicely ON TOP of any existing java elements:
_draw: function()
{
Element.setStyle(
this.container,
Object.extend(this.options.balloonStyle, {
‘position’: ‘absolute’,
‘display’: ‘none’,
‘zIndex’: 300
})
);