Open a Pop-Up Window in the RSS Ticker V2

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Open a Pop-Up Window in the RSS Ticker V2

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For all customers that want to open a popup window, instead of the new tab/window, please follow the next tutorial. The tutorial is composed from 2 parts (javascript and action script) and would explain you step by step what to do.

STEP 1. Inside the head section of your main html document add this code:
    function popup(url) {
   var width = 800;
   var height = 640;
   var left = (screen.width – width)/2;
   var top = (screen.height – height)/2;
   var params = ‘width=’width’, height=’+height; params = ’, top=’+top’, left=’+left; params += ’, directories=no’;
   params += ’, location=no’; params += ’, menubar=no’; params += ’, resizable=no’;
   params += ’, scrollbars=no’;
   params += ’, status=no’;
   params += ’, toolbar=no’;
   newwin=window.open(url,’windowname5’, params);
       if (window.focus) {newwin.focus()} return false; }
//—>

The popup window is automatically centered and you can control the width and height through the first two variables. By default the popup window is 800x640px. Customize it as you please.

STEP 2. Open the source .fla file and go to line 338 and find following function:

// click picture movie clip
    function SingleNewsMcClick(e:MouseEvent)
{
   var newsIndex = Number(MovieClip(e.currentTarget.parent).name);
       if(String(xmlList[newsIndex].link) != '')
       navigateToURL(new URLRequest(xmlList[newsIndex].link), xml.@linkOpenTarget);
}

Remove this function and add the following function instead:

    function SingleNewsMcClick(e:MouseEvent)
{
   var newsIndex = Number(MovieClip(e.currentTarget.parent).name);
       if(String(xmlList[newsIndex].link) != ’’)
       ExternalInterface.call(“popup”,String(xmlList[newsIndex].link));
}