Chapter 9 -- commands

The moveTo Command

Most commands in JavaScript are pretty self-explainatory; the MoveTo command moves the window to a new place.

You would tell the window to move to a new place by typing window.moveTo(xcoordinate, ycoordinate);

The window object is an object that reffers to, well, the window itself.
You can also reffer to the window that you want to move by it's name.

The moveTo command tells self to move to location xcoordinate and ycoordinate.

The window.open command

The window.open command opens a window!

This is a really useful tool; many sites use the window.open command to create their own user defined windows without having to do a snippet of HTML.

The syntax, or the correct use of the code, is as follows(any text that is bold is optional):
window.open(URL,name,features,replace);

So let's say that you wanted to open tutorialdojo.com in a new window. All you'd need to type is "window.open('http:\\www.tutorialdojo.com');"

The only thing you sent to the open command was the URL, but you didn't even need to send that to the function.

To pop a blank page up, you would type "window.open();".

To pop up a page that was named Jon, you simply type "window.open('http:\\www.tutorialdojo.com','Jon');".

If you want to get fancy you can edit what's known as the chrome of the user's newly made window.

The chrome of a window is the little things that the browser has (i.e.: navigation buttons, address bar, menu, etc.).

You would make a window that has no menubar by typing "window.open('http:\\www.tutorialdojo.com\','Jon','menubar=no');".

Conversely, typing yes instead of no insures that they have a menubar.

Other things you can type include, but are not limited to statusbar, addressbar, toolbar, and fullscreen .

The last parameter you can send to the open command is the replace parameter.

The replace parameter tells the browser whether it's okay to replace the window's content if it already exsists with that name.

You can only use true and false with this one.

Yet another, and final, example of the window.open command is as follows:
window.open('http:\\www.tutorialdojo.com","Jon","statusbar=no",false);

This final example would open a new window named Jon, that has the URL of tutorialdojo.com, no statusbar, and will not replace the window if it already exists--Whew!

The resizeTo Command

The resizeTo command resizes the window.

It is used just as the moveTo command is used.

Allright... here's another example:
window.resizeTo(screen.width,screen.height);

Now, screen.width and screen.height are actually unchangable variables that represent the screen's width and height.

Now we're getting into the fun stuff!

As we journey on to the tenth, and final, chapter we shall master the ways of the loop.