XWD Tutorial on Locking Popups with Tweakset

[spudmachine]

Hi everyone,
I promised I'd put together a video tutorial after the help on got in the forum here.

So here it is on YouTube.



Cheers,
Geoff

[steve.ledger]

Excellent tutorial video Geoff - http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

You can embed your youtube videos right into your post at TG using BBCODE tags like this:

[youtube]O8HbalhDghA[/*******]

(replace the ******* with youtube - I had to do this else the video will just show and not the code)

You only need the video ID code (in red above) from You Tube, not the entire URL.

[spudmachine]

That's what I love about this place - everytime I come hear I learn something new and cool!

Thanks Sledger - for the compliment and the advice.

Cheers,
Geoff

[cursor]

Great tutorial video, Geoff ... very clear and thorough, indeed!

[youtube]O8HbalhDghA[/*******]

(replace the ******* with youtube - I had to do this else the video will just show and not the code)

Actually, Steve, you when creating a post, you can uncheck the box at

Additional Options >
Miscellaneous Options >
Automatically parse links in text

Since I did exactly that for this post, the text below doesn't display as a hyperlink:

http://www.xara.com

[Egg Bramhill]

Fiendish, you learn something new every day

[philt]

Many thanks for this Geoff, nice work and a huge help. Nor would it have been easy to sort out that weirdity of the tweak thing needing to overlap the page.

[steve.ledger]

Actually, Steve, you when creating a post, you can uncheck the box at......

Yes this is well known to me
But it was neither the point or the message I was giving to Geoff, which was to embed his video rather than link to it (which sends members off-site).
Geoff had edited his post and did just that two hours before you read it.

[sadicus]

Great tutorial!
...also very cool to know how to use Tweaks.

[steve.ledger]

Nor would it have been easy to sort out that weirdity of the tweak thing needing to overlap the page.

It doesn't.
The placeholder that holds the javascript code to lock the popup needs to be placed in the page area 'somewhere'. Overlapping as Geoff did is one way to make certain the code get's written in the body somewhere.

You can resize the placeholder to just a few pixels if you wish, and place it in any corner of the page.

[cursor]

Yes this is well known to me

That's cool.
Then perhaps someone else might appreciate the hint.