function setCookie(c_name,value,expiredays)
        {
        var exdate=new Date();
        exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate()+expiredays);
        document.cookie=c_name+ "=" +escape(value) +
        ((expiredays==null) ? "" : ";expires="+exdate.toGMTString());
        }

        function getCookie(c_name)
        {
        if (document.cookie.length>0)
          {
          c_start=document.cookie.indexOf(c_name + "=");
          if (c_start!=-1)
            {
            c_start=c_start + c_name.length+1;
            c_end=document.cookie.indexOf(";",c_start);
            if (c_end==-1) c_end=document.cookie.length;
            return unescape(document.cookie.substring(c_start,c_end));
            }
          }
        return "";
        }
        		
        function closeSplash() {
	        $('#mask').hide();
	        $('.window').hide();
        }

        function loadSplash() {
		        var id = '#dialog2';
        	    
		        //Get the screen height and width
		        var maskHeight = '2500px'; //$(document).height();
		        var maskWidth = '100%'; //$(window).width();
        	
		        //Set heigth and width to mask to fill up the whole screen
		        $('#mask').css({'width':maskWidth,'height':maskHeight});
        		
		        //transition effect		
		        $('#mask').fadeIn(1000);	
		        $('#mask').fadeTo("slow",0.8);	
        	
		        //Get the window height and width
		        var winH = $(window).height();
		        var winW = $(window).width();
                      
		        //Set the popup window to center
		        $(id).css('top',  winH/2-$(id).height()/2);
		        $(id).css('left', winW/2-$(id).width()/2);
        	
		        //transition effect
		        $(id).fadeIn(2000); 
        }

        function checkSanitySplash(CookieValue, sanitysplashcookiename)
        {
            sanitysplash=getCookie(sanitysplashcookiename);
            
            if (sanitysplash==null || sanitysplash=="" || sanitysplash != CookieValue)
            {
                sanitysplash = CookieValue;
                setCookie(CookieValue,sanitysplash,3);
                loadSplash();
            }
        }