Goto Web Address -> Javascript:callingFunctions("withStrings");

Hello,

I've been trying to utilise the Goto Web Address facility to activate Javascript code I have embedded in the HTML. However I am having a little trouble with Lectora not properly parsing strings.

For example, if I had a function embedded into my HTML:

function msg(stringIn)

{

alert(stringIn);

}

and called it through a MouseClick - GotoWebAddress event:

"Javascript:msg("Hello World!");

It will throw errors. On inspection of the code, it's because the quote characters (in "Hello World") break Lectora's parsing when it builds the Javascript for the MouseClick event.

Is there a better way I can use the gotoWebAddress facility to send strings to a javascript function? I tried using escape characters, but didn't have much luck.

(The idea here was to create a library of Javascript functions in the header that I could pass object names into, this would allow me to fade out images with JQuery when a interactions are complete, etc). If there's a better way I could be doing this, i'd be interested.

I could embed the javascript per-page manually, but I like making it simple using Lectora's inheritance.