Thanks for the reference to Dynamic Drive. I found the script and their annotations look like they will be helpful.

 

I need to find the bit thats controlling the X offset without screwing up the page. At first I thought it was just the top couple of lines but I can see it's more complicated than that.

 

I need more tea before I solve this (I'm English so I have tea instead of coffee !)

 

Nigel

 

 

 

I would have torn my hair out but I'm a bit short in that department. It started retreating 18 years ago when my first son was born !

 

Nigel

 

 

 

 

Got it sorted now.

 

I redid everything form scratch and I must have missed something first time because it was almost perfect except that the middle part of the popup was out of aligment. When checking the code I noticed it was referring to a file called contentmiddle.png which I hadn't uploaded. I'd used one called whitemiddle.png. When I uploaded that one it fixed the final part.

 

I need to play around a bit with the popup offset settings because its so big now its almost off the right hand side of the page but other than that it's great.

 

Many many thanks for all your help on this.

 

Nigel

 

Note that there are 4 pointers - up and down instances of left and right, plus 4 more images that form the top and bottom caps, the title row and the body of the box.  The size of each of those 8 images need to be correctly referenced in the js.  If you didn't change the pointer images, and only replaced the body elements, you don't necessarily have to change the pointer dimension references.

 

Make certain that you have created all the new images in a symetrical manner, so that when they get assembled as a whole there are no rough edges.

 

As I said in my first post on this - it's not simple.  The first time I altered it I tore my hair out.  Now I go find the last site I altered and copy that code as a shortcut!

 

I couldn't resist having another go after reading your replies - thanks everyone. I'm sure you've all been going to bed at some stage and ended spending a few more hours !

 

Netprofits - I did clear the cache thanks - been caught with that one too many times before.

 

I think Greg may have it in his reply about the "document.write('<IMG class="dpointer"" references.

 

What I don't quite follow is the relationship between these sizes and the popup image sizes.

 

My popup images (topcap.png etc) have all gone from 285px wide to 402px wide.

I've made the changes to the files but the "document.write('<IMG class="dpointer"" references all show a Width of 55px and a height of 101px - what should these be changed to? They refer to mages such as upleftcombo.png and pngfix.png

 

Thanks again

 

Nigel

 

I altered the widths in the ei-tooltip.css file - seemed straightforward

 

The ei-tooltip.js was a bit more difficult but I found all the images and size code and changed them all to the new ones.

 

I uploaded the files but the Ajax popup still comes out the same as it was.

 

It's nearly 10.30pm here in the Uk so i think I'll go get some sleep. These things always seem to be more obvious in the morning - I'm sure I've overlooked somehting in the code.

 

Many thanks for your help Greg - I'll let you know how I get on later tomorrow.

 

Nigel