/* some of this crap didn't work. I left it in case I might find time to work some more*/
var visitor = ""; //make visitor a global variable so we can use it on other pages
function setGreeting(win, choice)
{
if (choice == "yes")
{
visitor = prompt('Please enter your name for a personal greeting!', 'your name here, please');
if ((visitor == "") || (visitor == " ") || (visitor == 'your name here, please') || (visitor == undefined))
visitor = "one who wishes to remain anonymous";
var winPop = win.openScaledWindow('PopUpGreeting.html', win, visitor);
document.getElementById('greeting_home').innerHTML = "
Eventually, " + visitor + ", I hope to have some actual content. Now wouldn't that be fun?
Nothing wrong with choosing to remain anonymous. Eventually, I hope to have some actual content. Now wouldn't that be fun?
";
visitor = 'anonymous';
}
}
/*Open a popup window that is scaled in the way that makes sense to me*/
function openScaledWindow(linkTarget, opener, name)
{
var winWidth = Math.floor(0.40*docWidth());
var winHeight = Math.floor(0.50*docHeight());
var winPop;
//create the window
winPop = opener.open('', 'popWin', 'toolbar=no, menubar=no, location=no, status=no, width=120, height=120, resizable=yes scrollbars=yes');
//write the document
winPop.document.open();
winPop.document.write('');
winPop.document.write(' Larry Piper\'s Pop-Up Greeting');
winPop.document.write('
');
winPop.document.write(' close window');
winPop.document.write('');
winPop.document.close();
//resize and relocate the window
winPop.resizeTo(winWidth, winHeight);
winPop.moveTo((docWidth()-winWidth)/2, (docHeight() - winHeight)/2);
winPop.focus();
return winPop;
}
//Set a greeting appropriate to the page, *if* the visitor registered a name
function pageGreeting(visitor)
{
if ((visitor != undefined) && visitor.indexOf('anonymous') == -1)
{
// alert ("visitor: " + visitor + "\n visitor.indexOf('anonymous'): " + visitor.indexOf('anonymous') );
var i, gr_div, gr_suffix;
var grDivArray = new Array ('greeting_home', 'greeting_fam', 'greeting_mus', 'greeting_spir', 'greeting_tech', 'greeting_van', 'greeting_wri');
var grStringArray = new Array ();
grStringArray[0] = "Welcome back " + visitor + "!";
grStringArray[1] = "Hiya " + visitor + "! Let me introduce you to my family";
grStringArray[2] = "Hiya " + visitor + "! I hope you like the free music.";
grStringArray[3] = "Hiya " + visitor + "! This section contains material of a more spiritual nature.";
grStringArray[4] = "Hiya " + visitor + "! Here are my nerd pages. Some things about PChem and some things about my adventures in learning web-site creation.";
grStringArray[5] = "Hiya " + visitor + "! Here you'll find trivialities I like, such as ascii art and cow porn";
grStringArray[6] = "Hiya " + visitor + "! Here are links to some non-scientific things I wrote.";
for (i = 0; i