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MAPEDIT BASIC QUESTIONS

Downloading, Pricing, Unix links, Mac links and other basic Mapedit questions.

  • What is Mapedit?
  • How do I download Mapedit?
  • Are imagemaps hard to make and implement?
  • Would you clarify the different pricing for Mapedit licensing?
  • Where can I find Unix installation instructions?
  • Where can I find Macintosh installation instructions?
  • Do I need a real web server to deliver imagemaps?
  • INTERMEDIATE QUESTIONS

    Borders, relative urls, anchors and more.

  • Can I test my imagemaps locally in my web browser?
  • How can I get rid of the blue border around my imagemap?
  • Can I link hotspots to named anchors (URLs such as foo.html#cheese)?
  • Can I target a frame?
  • Can I have animated gifs in an image map?
  • I am having issues with the alt and title tags can you help me?
  • There is a problem with the ALT message when you hover over the default areas of an imagemap?
  • I make pages with Word 2000. Why do I only see my hotspots in Netscape?
  • Can you use a background image as an image map?
  • Can I open JPEG and PNG-format images as well as GIF?
  • ADVANCED QUESTIONS

    Changing the code.

  • I'm a Javascript hacker. Can I edit the onMouseOver and onMouseOut attributes for each hotspot?
  • I would like to use the onFocus=blur(), do you have an example?
  • Can imagemaps be used in VRML worlds?
  • BASIC QUESTIONS

    Downloading, Pricing, Unix & Mac links and other basic Mapedit questions.

    What is MapEdit?

    A graphical editor for World Wide Web image maps (clickable imagemaps).

    How do I download MapEdit?

    1. Get Mapedit from our website and download Wusage onto your hard drive. Here's how....
      • Go to the Mapedit download page to get the version of Mapedit we offer for your operating system.
      • Click on the appropriate link for your operating system.
      • A dialog box comes up that says do you want to run from this location or save this to disk.
        Choose Run this from its location and allow Mapedit to install on your hard drive.
      • You will be prompted through questions about accepting the terms of our licensing agreement. Click the appropriate responses for your situation.

    Are imagemaps hard to make?

    Until recently, they were. Server-side imagemaps required the author to install them separately on the server. But with Mapedit 2.63 and the latest web browsers, you can use client-side imagemaps, which reside in your HTML page and are very easy to create. Mapedit will also create server-side maps for backwards compatibility with old browsers.

    Can you clarify the pricing for Mapedit?

    SINGLE LICENSE: $ 25.00/copy
    A single copy license entitles you to one copy of Mapedit. A separate copy must be purchased for each separate computer using Mapedit.

    SITE LICENSE: $ 250.00
    An Site license entitles you to utilize as many copies of Mapedit, on any number of machines, in one physical location. This includes campus settings.

    GLOBAL LICENSE: $ 1000.00
    To utilize multiple copies of Mapedit in more than one physical location (building, city, country), you would need to use a global license.

    Where can I find Unix installation instructions?

    Get the Unix installation instructions here

    Where can I find Macintosh installation instructions?

    Get the Macintosh installation instructions here

    Do I need a real web server to deliver imagemaps?

    Not with Mapedit 2.63. With Mapedit 2.63, you can use client side imagemaps, which work without any special configuration in the latest web browsers. Of course you can also make old-style server-side imagemaps in order to support older browsers.

    INTERMEDIATE QUESTIONS

    Blue border, relative urls, anchors and more.

    Can I test my imagemaps locally in my web browser?

    YES, if you use client side imagemaps in Mapedit 2.63. Netscape 2.0 or later and all versions of Internet Explorer support client side imagemaps. Today, almost all users have browsers with support for client side imagemaps.

    How can I get rid of the blue border around my imagemap?

    Add a border=0 attribute to the image tag.

    Can I link hotspots to named anchors (URLs such as foo.html#cheese)?

    Yes. However, (1) make sure you have Mapedit 2.63, and (2) if you are using server-side imagemaps, be sure to specify a complete URL beginning with http://hostname, as many imagemap programs do not handle this case properly otherwise. (Mapedit version 2.0 had a bug in this area, which is corrected in later versions.)

    Can I target a frame from each hotspot?

    With Mapedit 2.63, yes, you can. A separate field is provided to enter the Netscape Frames TARGET attribute for each hotspot. This is only possible with client-side imagemaps, but the browsers that support frames also support client-side imagemaps!

    Can you have animated gifs in an image map?

    Yes. Mapedit will display the first frame of the GIF while you are working with Mapedit, but it will animate normally on your web page. Please note that web browsers are not very consistent about what imagemaps do on animated GIFs (some don't let you click until the animation is over, some let you click right away).

    I am having issues with the alt and title tags can you help me?

    There is a problem with the ALT message when you hover over the default areas of an imagemap?

    Simply put it in the line setting up the imagemap before you get to mapedit.
    ALT="Body"
    We have taken out the opening tags on this example. e.g. A HREF="Bodyt.map">Body
    map name="bodyzones">
    area shape="circle" . . etc. etc.
    /map>

    I make pages with Word 2000. Why do I only see my hotspots in Netscape?

    The problem is that these pages are full of Microsoft VML, which is not HTML at all, but rather a vector graphics format invented by Microsoft.

    Since Netscape doesn't understand VML, it uses the fallback HTML provided by Word, and that works because that's where Mapedit puts the imagemap.

    But Mapedit doesn't speak VML, only HTML, so it can't make sense of the VML tags that Word is putting into your page; it just edits the HTML tags, which Netscape is using. Internet Explorer completely ignores the HTML for your images and uses the VML stuff instead.

    Fortunately there is a solution. Use Microsoft's Office HTML Filter to remove office-specific markup.

    You can get the filter and more information about it here:

    http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/articles/oRemoveMarkup.htm

    After you run your page through the filter, your imagemaps should work with Internet Explorer and Netscape.

    Microsoft moves their pages around a lot. If this link breaks, let us know.

    Can you use a background image as an image map?

    Unfortunately, you cannot imagemap a background image.
    Even if Mapedit let you add the hotspots, no web browser would understand them.
    Try to imagemap a regular inline image in the page instead, or look into the tag, which can be used to put layers of HTML (including images) behind each other.

    Can I open JPEG and PNG-format images as well as GIF?

    In Mapedit 2.63, the answer is yes! Versions before 2.0 supported only GIF.

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    ADVANCED QUESTIONS

    Changing the code.

    I'm a Javascript hacker. Can I edit the onMouseOver and onMouseOut attributes for each hotspot?

    Yes! Version 2.3 added this capability. We do not provide Javascript technical support. These fields are provided for users who understand Javascript. You can learn more about Javascript on Netscape's developer information site. Please read the next faq as well.

    I would like to use the onFocus=blur(), do you have an example?

    The map, except for the missing opening tags here, would look something like:
    img src="Singers2/u200.gif" alt="Singers 2 - U2 in Israel" border="0" usemap="#u200"> map name="u200"
    area shape="poly" alt="u201" coords="27,15,27,157,138,158,138,5" onFocus=blur(); href="ABC.htm" title="u201">
    area shape="poly" alt="u202" coords="26,160,26,306,31,295,138,160" onFocus=blur(); href="def.htm" title="u202">
    area shape="poly" alt="u203" coords="30,337,51,393,92,430,150,280, 317,144,335" onFocus=blur(); href="hij.htm" title="u203">
    area shape="rect" alt="u204" coords="187,146,294,277" onFocus=blur(); href="klm.htm" title="u204">
    area shape="poly" alt="u205" coords="187,16,188,142,293,143,293,5" onFocus=blur(); href=nop.htm" title="u205">
    area shape="poly" alt="u206" coords="338,163,352,220,452,184,436,163" onFocus=blur(); href="qrs.htm" title="u206">
    area shape="poly" alt="u207" coords="338,159,345,98,368,50,398,155" onFocus=blur(); href="tuv.htm" title="u207">
    area shape="poly" alt="u208" coords="492,159,486,180,421,586,185,587,159" onFocus=blur(); href="wx.htm" title="u208">
    area shape="poly" alt="u209" coords="417,303,345,436,518,314,525,303" onFocus=blur(); href="yz.htm" title="u209">
    area shape="default" nohref>
    /map

    OR
    img src="images/catboat1.jpg" width="351" usemap="#catboat1" border="0">
    map name="catboat1">
    area shape="circle" coords="126,150,34" href="tboxweek2.html" TARGET="_blank" alt="Week 2" title="Week 2" onFocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()">
    area shape="circle" coords="56,180,31" href="tboxcover.html" TARGET="_blank" alt="Week 1" title="Week 1" onFocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()">
    area shape="circle" coords="201,134,26" href="tboxweek3.html" TARGET="_blank" alt="Week 3" title="Week 3" onFocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()">
    area shape="circle" coords="132,211,21" href="tboxweek4.html" TARGET="_blank" alt="Week 4" title="Week 4" onFocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()">
    area shape="circle" coords="187,221,26" href="tboxweek5.html" TARGET="_blank" alt="Week 5" title="Week 5" onFocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()">
    area shape="circle" coords="276,172,33" href="tboxweek6.html" TARGET="_blank" alt="Week 6" title="Week 6" onFocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()">
    area shape="circle" coords="287,89,30" href="tboxextras.html" TARGET="_blank" alt="Extra Goodies" title="Extra Goodies" onFocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()">
    area shape="circle" coords="292,307,27" href="mailto:thecats@cat-ti-tude.com" alt="Send Email" title="Send Email" onFocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()">
    area shape="default" nohref>
    /map>

    Can imagemaps be used in VRML worlds?

    Yes. Greg Seidman has written a web page on the subject.

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    OLD MAPEDIT FAQS

    "I have the Windows version. I get green splotches instead of a GIF image. What's wrong?"

    This was a bug in version 1.2. Get version 2.63 (the latest version).

    "Mapedit crashed on my system. What next?"

    Get version 2.63. A great deal of debugging has taken place. If you find a bug in 2.63, please write to us! Include as much information as possible about when the program crashed, what other programs were running at the time, and how to repeat the crash.

    "I made a map and I made a link to the map and it just downloads the text of the map!"

    You have made a server-side imagemap. Now, you need to install it according to the particular instructions for your specific web server. Read your server documentation and/or consult your web server administrator. Alternatively, upgrade to Mapedit 2.63 (see above) and convert your imagemaps to client-side for use with the latest browsers. Client-side imagemaps require no special installation!