// glossary.js
/* the better way to do this would be to send an AJAX request to a service tied to the db etc, but the overall load this causes is small */
/* adds about 90KB to a page with glossary links, but oh well */
var glossary = new Object;
function loadGlossary (key) {
if (glossary.links) {
if (glossary.links[key]) {
var newWindow = window.open('','details','width=590,height=300,scrollbars=0,addressbar=0');
var newDoc = newWindow.document.open();
newDoc.write (""
+ "
"
+ ""
+ glossary.links[key] + "
");
newDoc.close();
newWindow.focus();
} else {
/*
alert ("key not found");
alert (glossary.links.length);
*/
}
} else {
//alert ("no array");
}
}
$(document).ready( function () {
if ($("a.glossaryLink").length) {
// load glossary text
$.get("/MMNA/jsp/glossary/index.do", function (data) {
glossary.text = data;
glossary.links = new Array;
// search the page for glossary links, extract the key, and preserve the data on the object
$("a.glossaryLink").each ( function () {
var key = $(this).attr("href").match(/\('[a-zA-Z0-9]+'\)/)[0];
if (key) {
key = key.substring(2,key.length-2); // trim the parentheses and quote marks
if (glossary.links[key] == undefined) {
// pull the text from the data grab
var startPoint = glossary.text.indexOf('
') - 1;
// set it into the object
glossary.links[key] = glossary.text.slice (startPoint, startPoint + endPoint + 6);
} else {
glossary.links[key] = "Glossary key not found!";
}
}
}
});
}, "text");
}
});