Javascrip Help

Easter eggs on HTML pages?

[kingkelly]

Is there anyway (javascript?) to have a certain keyboard command (CTRL+X) send the user to a differnt page, or make a picture popup?

Sort of like an easter egg on a webpage.

[txbakers]

I think you could but it only would work in IE. I there are onKeyup and onKeypress events in IE which you could use. The problem would be that you would have to check every keypress to make it happen.

[kingkelly]

Well its for a yearbook made in HTML, to be viewed off of a CDROM.

Were distributing IE with it, so IE will definetely be the browser.

How would i use these onKeypress events?

[BlobFisk]

You would need to capture the keypress of the two keys. For example, to capture a key:

function captureKey(e) { 
 var myChar; 
 e = window.event; 
 myChar = String.fromCharCode(e.keyCode); 
} 
document.onkeypress = captureKey; 

Then you would need to test for the key press of both Ctrl and X - you may need to check if Control uses the onKeyup. Some keys use press and some keys use up. Also, Ctrl-X is a browser command for Cut... you may need to add a return false onto your code to negate this command.

[kingkelly]

Hmmmm... A friend told me this would work, but seems to easy...

<a href="http://www.aardvarkind.com/" accesskey="a" target="_blank"></a>

It will open in a new window by pressiong alt+a followed by enter?

[davemarks]

Yep works in IE 6

Although you need to make sure that you don't use any of the letters defined to the menus

[kingkelly]

Well its going to be in fullscreen kiosk mode, so worrys there.

The thing i need now to do, is somehow hide the files/folders on the CD. Is there anyway to make them "hidden"? Any creative ideas?