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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't know how to solve your problem except to
suggest that Netscape 4x uses layers. Your code works fine in Netscape 7, by the
way, except that I can't get the actual songs. And it's a very cool idea.
I really like it!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>N</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=fisher@volstate.net href="mailto:fisher@volstate.net">Alvin
Fisher</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=javascript@LaTech.edu
href="mailto:javascript@LaTech.edu">Javascript Discussion Group</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 13, 2002 7:36
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Javascript] Alphabet buttons
& code pages</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hi,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I am new to the group. I know a little about
JavaScript, but not all that much.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I have made a multi-language Christian song index.
Here is the URL, so that folks can look and see what I am talking about: <A
href="http://www.volstate.net/~fisher/hymnintl">http://www.volstate.net/~fisher/hymnintl</A>
The top frame has alphabet buttons that show the first letters of the
songs in the chosen language that are in the index. With English, for
example, all the letters except X are displayed, because there are English
songs that begin with every letter except X. I don't think this works in
Netscape, however, because I don't know how to make the buttons disappear in
Netscape. Perhaps I could use some other technique in Netscape to
indicate that certain letters are not available.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>To include Russian, I wanted to use the same set of buttons,
but just change the letter that was displayed. I tried changing the
"Value" associated with the button, but this didn't work. I tried
loading a different htm into the top frame, but I didn't manage.
Finally, I created a set of buttons that will show only when the language
chosen uses the Cyrillic alphabet. So, if you choose Russian (and
perhaps in the future Bulgarian, Ukrainian or Serbian), the Roman alphabet
disappears and the Cyrillic one becomes visible. But, if you choose a
language like English that uses the Roman alphabet, the Cyrillic one
disappears. In order to make the additional set of buttons visible I had
to increase the size of the top window, which decreases the size of the bottom
window.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>So far, it works pretty well, except that my HTML editor
doesn't like my command to display Russian, which is: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2> <META http_equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html" charset="ISO-8859-5"></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>However, this is the only command I have discovered that
makes Internet Explorer display Russian consistently. I tried using a
different one I found, that included charset as part of content.
HoTMetaL liked that command, but Internet Explorer did strange things with
it. Would Unicode apply to my situation, and if so, how do you use
it?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>If I want to include other alphabets later on, such as
Korean, Hebrew or Arabic, and if I still can not change the display on the
buttons, and still can not load a different htm into the top frame, and don't
want to make the top frame any larger, is there a way to make scroll bar on
the top frame programmatically scroll down to the alphabet buttons for the
related language?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Thanks in advance for any help.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Alvin Fisher</DIV></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Right now, I have </FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>