Need a Layer to Obscure my app ;-)

[Barbara de Zoete]

Re: Need a Layer to Obscure my app ;-)

On Wed, 25 May 2005 14:25:51 -0400, Mel <mel.m.heravi@h p.com> wrote:
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> "Barbara de Zoete" <b_de_zoete@hot mail.com> wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 25 May 2005 14:08:42 -0400, Mel <mel.m.heravi@h p.com> wrote:
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>>> i have some internet widgets that i display on the screen as my "help" menu
>>> and therefore its for viewing only and i dont what the users to click on
>>> them and go somewhere else.
>>>
>>> with all that said and done,
>>> is it possible ?
>>>[/color]
>>
>> Easy. Don't make them links.
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Please delete the sig(natures) of the messages you reply to if your newsclient
doesn't do that for you.
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> I DO NOT[/color]

No need to shout, thank you very much.
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> want
> to make changes[/color]

How am I suppossed to know what you want don't want? Mind reading? I gave you a
possible solution as others did (like the print screen image; good solution too).
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> can you help ?
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I did. If you don't consider it to be helpful, don't blame me.


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[Harlan Messinger]

Re: Need a Layer to Obscure my app ;-)

Els wrote:[color=blue]
> Harlan Messinger wrote:
>
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>>Mel wrote:
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>>>"Els" <els.aNOSPAM@ti scali.nl> wrote in message[/color]
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>>>>Use a transparent gif as background of the div. (small one, repeated)
>>>
>>>thanks a lot. you saved ma' day :-)[/color]
>>
>>Why is that easier than just making a screen capture and displaying it
>>as an image *instead of* copying the HTML and then having to cover it
>>with a transparent layer?[/color]
>
>
> Maybe some people want to enlarge the font?[/color]

Hmm, there is that. Although, technically the situation is no different
from a Help page that explains how to use a non-HTML application, or the
controls on some device, where the illustrations would necessarily be
images. So it may be helpful to exploit the fact that the thing being
explained is an HTML presentation instead of something else, but I still
wouldn't say it's strictly necessary.

[Harlan Messinger]

Re: Need a Layer to Obscure my app ;-)

Barbara de Zoete wrote:[color=blue]
> On Wed, 25 May 2005 15:28:16 -0400, Harlan Messinger
> <hmessinger.rem ovethis@comcast .net> wrote:
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>> He *should* make a screen capture and display it instead.[/color]
>
> Is that wise? The page might show up in my browser quite differently
> than it did in his as he made his screen capture, adding to the confusing.[/color]

I thought Els's point was interesting, but yours is even more
compelling. I'll have to think about that some more.

[Alan J. Flavell]

Re: Need a Layer to Obscure my app ;-)

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Barbara de Zoete wrote:
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> Is that wise? The page might show up in my browser quite differently
> than it did in his as he made his screen capture, adding to the
> confusing.[/color]

Yes, I was sent a screen capture which I was told proved that the page
was a perfectly adequate size. I viewed it and it was tiny.

On further discussion I found that she was working at 65dpi, and I was
viewing it at 135dpi.

[David Dorward]

Re: Need a Layer to Obscure my app ;-)

Mel wrote:
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>> Use a transparent gif as background of the div. (small one, repeated)[/color][/color]

<snip quoted sig> Please stop quoting sigs.
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> thanks a lot. you saved ma' day :-)[/color]

Not everybody uses a pointing device. You'll probably find that keyboard
users will still get at the controls.

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[Els]

Re: Need a Layer to Obscure my app ;-)

David Dorward wrote:
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> Mel wrote:
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>>> Use a transparent gif as background of the div. (small one, repeated)[/color][/color]
>
> <snip quoted sig> Please stop quoting sigs.
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>> thanks a lot. you saved ma' day :-)[/color]
>
> Not everybody uses a pointing device. You'll probably find that keyboard
> users will still get at the controls.[/color]

Very true - hadn't thought of that.
Must be /very/ confusing for people (like myself) who mix mouse and
keyboard :S

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