I am working on a project with the following information:

1. I have an exploded view of a machine assembly
2. I have an Access database with all the parts listed in the assembly
3. In the database is included:
What machine the assembly came from, name of the assembly, the part number of each part on the assembly, description of each part and location in our parts cabinet
4. I will create a web page from the assembly drawing with hot spots and when you point to one of the hot spots a box will pop up and display the information about the part pointed to.

How can I do this on a stand-alone computer

Thank you for all you help

John

with HTML, by installing IIS, writing an application in ASP/.net and javascript.

or write a standalone app in some language or other (depending on what you can code in)

PHP works with Access via ODBC as well. Is this for your own reference or for a public website? If public, there's a fair amount of set-up and maintenance work to have your own webserver.

Oops, double post.

You could create a series of divs all poisitioned one on top of the other. Then color the parts of the image you want to highlight and save each of them as a seperate image.

Using CSS you could show and hide those layers based on whatever roll over you're doing.

<a id="show" href="#"> <p>Hover Here</p>
	<div id="visible"><p>&nbsp;</p></div>
</a>

Then the rollover CSS:

#visible {
	background: url(part01.jpg);
	color: #fff;
	width: 100px;
	height: 100px;
	visibility: hidden; 
}


a:hover div#visible {
	visibility: visible;
}

If the Div is positioned absolutely in a way that puts it above the original image it should appear that upon rolling over a link you are highlighting part of the exploded machine assembly. When in fact the code is making an image with a highlighted part appear over the original image.

I can do the hot spots with image mapping. I finally got my system setup , win2k pro, with IIS and tried some basic ASP stuff.... "Hello World" etc but when I tried just to read what was in the data base from some code I pulled off the web that's where I got stuck. I don't know anything about ASP what I have been reading online. If I can get the data to display on the screen I think that would be half the battle.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

John