function showPopup (targetObjectId, eventObj, xOffset, yOffset) {
    if(eventObj) {
	// hide any currently-visible popups
	hideCurrentPopup();
	// stop event from bubbling up any farther
	eventObj.cancelBubble = true;
	// move popup div to current cursor position 
	// (add scrollTop to account for scrolling for IE)
	var newXCoordinate = (eventObj.pageX)?eventObj.pageX + xOffset:eventObj.x + xOffset + ((document.body.scrollLeft)?document.body.scrollLeft:0);
	var newYCoordinate = (eventObj.pageY)?eventObj.pageY + yOffset:eventObj.y + yOffset + ((document.body.scrollTop)?document.body.scrollTop:0);
	moveObject(targetObjectId, newXCoordinate, newYCoordinate);
	// and make it visible
	if( changeObjectVisibility(targetObjectId, 'visible') ) {
	    // if we successfully showed the popup
	    // store its Id on a globally-accessible object
	    window.currentlyVisiblePopup = targetObjectId;
	    return true;
	} else {
	    // we couldn't show the popup, boo hoo!
	    return false;
	}
    } else {
	// there was no event object, so we won't be able to position anything, so give up
	return false;
    }
} // showPopup

function hideCurrentPopup() {
    // note: we've stored the currently-visible popup on the global object window.currentlyVisiblePopup
    if(window.currentlyVisiblePopup) {
	changeObjectVisibility(window.currentlyVisiblePopup, 'hidden');
	window.currentlyVisiblePopup = false;
    }
} // hideCurrentPopup



// ***********************
// hacks and workarounds *
// ***********************

// initialize hacks whenever the page loads
window.onload = initializeHacks;

// setup an event handler to hide popups for generic clicks on the document
document.onclick = hideCurrentPopup;

function initializeHacks() {
    // this ugly little hack resizes a blank div to make sure you can click
    // anywhere in the window for Mac MSIE 5
    if ((navigator.appVersion.indexOf('MSIE 5') != -1) 
	&& (navigator.platform.indexOf('Mac') != -1)
	&& getStyleObject('blankDiv')) {
	window.onresize = explorerMacResizeFix;
    }
    resizeBlankDiv();
    // this next function creates a placeholder object for older browsers
    createFakeEventObj();
}

function createFakeEventObj() {
    // create a fake event object for older browsers to avoid errors in function call
    // when we need to pass the event object to functions
    if (!window.event) {
	window.event = false;
    }
} // createFakeEventObj

function resizeBlankDiv() {
    // resize blank placeholder div so IE 5 on mac will get all clicks in window
    if ((navigator.appVersion.indexOf('MSIE 5') != -1) 
	&& (navigator.platform.indexOf('Mac') != -1)
	&& getStyleObject('blankDiv')) {
	getStyleObject('blankDiv').width = document.body.clientWidth - 20;
	getStyleObject('blankDiv').height = document.body.clientHeight - 20;
    }
}

function explorerMacResizeFix () {
    location.reload(false);
}

function getStyleObject(objectId) {
    // cross-browser function to get an object's style object given its id
    if(document.getElementById && document.getElementById(objectId)) {
	// W3C DOM
	return document.getElementById(objectId).style;
    } else if (document.all && document.all(objectId)) {
	// MSIE 4 DOM
	return document.all(objectId).style;
    } else if (document.layers && document.layers[objectId]) {
	// NN 4 DOM.. note: this won't find nested layers
	return document.layers[objectId];
    } else {
	return false;
    }
} // getStyleObject

function changeObjectVisibility(objectId, newVisibility) {
    // get a reference to the cross-browser style object and make sure the object exists
    var styleObject = getStyleObject(objectId);
    if(styleObject) {
	styleObject.visibility = newVisibility;
	return true;
    } else {
	// we couldn't find the object, so we can't change its visibility
	return false;
    }
} // changeObjectVisibility

function moveObject(objectId, newXCoordinate, newYCoordinate) {
    // get a reference to the cross-browser style object and make sure the object exists
    var styleObject = getStyleObject(objectId);
    if(styleObject) {
	styleObject.left = newXCoordinate;
	styleObject.top = newYCoordinate;
	return true;
    } else {
	// we couldn't find the object, so we can't very well move it
	return false;
    }
} // moveObject

function drawPopup (url, layID, event, page, target) {
	lay = MM_findObj(layID || '');
	laySample = MM_findObj('sampleTranslate');
	if ((! lay) || (! laySample)) { alert('no objects'); return }
	
	var html = laySample.innerHTML;
	lay.innerHTML = html.replace("URLHERE", escape(url));
	
	if (page) {
		setValue('translate_page', page)
	}
	
	if (target) {
		setValue('target_window', target)
	}
	return showPopup(layID, event, 20, -20);
}

function translate(from, to, url, target) {
	var baseUrl = "http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&";

	from = MM_findObj(from);
	to = MM_findObj(to);
	target = MM_findObj(target);
	target = target.value;
	
	if ((! from) || (! to)) {
		return;
	}

	var lang = from.value + '_' + to.value;
	var addr = baseUrl + "trurl=" + url + "&lp=" + lang;

	if (target == 'fromsitetoframe') {
		page = MM_findObj('translate_page');
		addr = page.value + '&translate=' + lang;
		window.open(addr, '_self');
	}
	else if (target == 'frompaneltoframe') {
		hideCurrentPopup();
		window.open(addr, 'workspace');
	}
	else {
		window.open(addr, '_blank');
	}
}

function setValue(objName, objValue) {
	var obj = MM_findObj(objName);
	if (! obj) { alert('no obj'); return }
	obj.value = objValue;
}

function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
  var p,i,x;  if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
	d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
  if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
  if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
}