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# re: skmLinkButton - Easily Displaying Text in the Browser's Status Bar 10/22/2004 6:07 AM Dimitri Glazkov

You could also register a start-up script like this (typing without testing, so consider it a pseudocode):

var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName("A");
for(var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++)
{
if (a.href.indexOf("javascript:__doPostBack") == 0)
{
a.onmouseover = function()
{
status = a.innerText;
}
a.onmouseout = function()
{
status = defaultStatus;
}
}
}

# re: skmLinkButton - Easily Displaying Text in the Browser's Status Bar 10/22/2004 6:09 AM Dimitri Glazkov

Shoot. Just after the for loop declaration, add "a = anchors[i]".

# Excellent tool! 10/22/2004 7:28 AM BigJim in STL

Scott

Thanks again for another excellent tool / tutorial! I tried this and it works very nicely. One question, though. I tried the "Live Demo" in IE and it worked fine. But in Firefox, it doesn't cause anything to appear. Any ideas?

# re: skmLinkButton - Easily Displaying Text in the Browser's Status Bar 10/22/2004 8:08 AM Scott Mitchell

Dimitri, what version of FireFox are you using? I'm using 0.9.3 and it works fine for me. What, specifically, is not working? If I move my mouse over the "My Blog" link I see, in the status bar, "Visit ScottOnWriting.NET!" Does this not work for you?

# re: skmLinkButton - Easily Displaying Text in the Browser's Status Bar 10/22/2004 2:39 PM Scott Mitchell

It appears that the FireFox 1.0 PR release by default disables client-side script for mucking with the browser's status bar text. You can override this behavior, though, by entering
about:config in Mozilla's address bar and changing the dom.disable_window_status_change setting to false.

# re: skmLinkButton - Easily Displaying Text in the Browser's Status Bar 10/23/2004 5:40 AM Dimitri Glazkov

.. and where oh where are the hordes of browser-bashes, pointing out how wrong it is to change a well-established behavior and urging to switch to another flavor? Oh, wait, this only happens to Internet Explorer...

# re: skmLinkButton - Easily Displaying Text in the Browser's Status Bar 10/23/2004 11:11 PM Armando Andrade

Very nice control Scott, i look at the code and is really clean and straightforward... i would like to make a review of your control in a spanish site, could i do this?

# re: skmLinkButton - Easily Displaying Text in the Browser's Status Bar 11/22/2004 8:45 AM mofaha

Your article answered a fairly unconnected question that I had regarding the failure of window.defaultStatus in Firefox 1.0 PR. I found your article via Google. Thanks, you saved me some time.

# re: skmLinkButton - Easily Displaying Text in the Browser's Status Bar 12/4/2004 8:17 PM Ryan Anderson

Scottie Doo!
I am continually schooled by your programming and I love it. I have a question. Why would you use a "Virtual Function" for the EscapeJavaScript method? This is the first time I have seen a "virtual" and when attempting to research what, how, and why I stumled onto MSDN article that stated, "One conclusion you can draw is that Virtual Function calls are about two times as expensive as regular calls when you're calling a method in a class. Bear in mind that calls are cheap to begin with, so I wouldn't remove all virtual calls. You should always use virtual methods when it makes sense to do so. "

Why does it make sense here, and would it be maditory for getting the functionality to desire?

Many thanks! Keep on writting!

# re: skmLinkButton - Easily Displaying Text in the Browser's Status Bar 12/4/2004 8:29 PM Ryan Anderson

So this is what I found.
1. No Difference.
2. A virtaul function can be overriden but an abstract cannot be overriden.
3. A virtual function has a body but abstract function does not have any.
4. A abstract function can be overriden but an virtual function cannot be overriden.

But I am still uncertain why the usage here.
TY!

# Enhancements to skmLinkButton 8/24/2005 12:45 AM Scott on Writing

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