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glennmsmith · Post by **glennmsmith** » Mon May 23, 2005 1:32 pm

Looking at previous messages on the forum, it looks like others might be experiencing similar problems to me.

When I load my web page up in IE it gives me an error and the (two) menus do not display. When I press Ctrl-Refresh, the page reloads, menus display, no errors.

I am running Windows 2000 (latest patches), IE. 6.0.2800.1106, and am using the latest (purchased a license Saturday) v5 of Milonic. And I'm running it under Tomcat 5.5.9 though that's probably irrelevant.

Excellent product by the way (except for this little problem-ette I'm having!).

The problem only happens when the IE cache is emptied first before loading the page. Subsequent loads (ie. after the refresh) are fine.

Turning Javascript debugging on, IE. reports the problem as being at: "Line: 21, Char: 27769, Error: Permission Denied, Code: 0, URL: test.html".

Hope you can help. As the Website is still under-development at the moment, I don't have a URL to post for you to test this, but I've supplied stripped-down files below which do give me the problem described.

My test HTML file is this:

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<html>
<head>
<title>Under Development</title>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript" src="milonic_src.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
if(ns4) _d.write("<scr"+"ipt type=text/javascript src=mmenuns4.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
else _d.write("<scr"+"ipt type=text/javascript src=mmenudom.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="reports_menu.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="performance_indicators_menu.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

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And my two menu files are:

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reports_menu.js:
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_menuCloseDelay=500;
_menuOpenDelay=150;
_subOffsetTop=2;
_subOffsetLeft=-2;

with(menuStyle1=new mm_style()){
bordercolor="#296488";
borderstyle="solid";
borderwidth=1;
fontfamily="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial";
fontsize="75%";
fontstyle="normal";
headerbgcolor="#ffffff";
headercolor="#000000";
offbgcolor="#DCE9F0";
offcolor="#515151";
onbgcolor="#4F8EB6";
oncolor="#ffffff";
outfilter="randomdissolve(duration=0.3)";
overfilter="Fade(duration=0.2);Alpha(opacity=90);Shadow(color=#777777', Direction=135, Strength=5)";
padding=5;
pagebgcolor="#82B6D7";
pagecolor="black";
separatorcolor="#2D729D";
separatorsize=1;
subimage="images/arrow.gif";
subimagepadding=2;
}

with(mainMenu=new menuname("MainMenu")){
style=menuStyle1;
alwaysvisible=1;
left=10;
top=250;
overflow="scroll";
itemwidth=190;
aI("status=Back To Home Page;text=Home;url=index.jsp;");
aI("status=Log Out of HiBS;text=Log Out;url=logout.jsp;");
aI("showmenu=ClinicalIndicators;text=Clinical Indicators;");
aI("showmenu=FiscalYear;text=Fiscal Year;");
}

with(mainMenu=new menuname("ClinicalIndicators")){
style=menuStyle1;
aI("showmenu=DeathsAfterSurgery;text=Deaths After Surgery;");
aI("text=Re-Admissions After Surgery;url=readmissions_after_surgery.jsp;")
}

with(mainMenu=new menuname("DeathsAfterSurgery")){
style=menuStyle1;
aI("text=Deaths After Surgery;url=deaths_after_surgery.jsp;")
aI("text=Breakdown;url=deaths_after_surgery_breakdown.jsp;")
aI("text=By Socio-Economic Factor;url=deaths_after_surgery_sef.jsp;")
aI("text=By Socio-Economic Index;url=deaths_after_surgery_sei.jsp;")
}

with(mainMenu=new menuname("FiscalYear")){
style=menuStyle1;
aI("text=Performance Indicators;url=performance_indicators.jsp;");
aI("text=Top 10 HRGs;url=top_ten_hrgs.jsp;");
aI("text=Data Quality;url=data_quality.jsp;");
aI("text=Day Cases;url=day_cases.jsp;");
}

drawMenus();

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and performance_indicators_menu.js:
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_menuCloseDelay=500;
_menuOpenDelay=150;
_subOffsetTop=2;
_subOffsetLeft=-2;

with(menuStyle=new mm_style()){
styleid=1;
bordercolor="#ffffff";
borderstyle="solid";
borderwidth=1;
fontfamily="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial";
fontsize="8pt";
fontstyle="normal";
fontweight="bold";
headerbgcolor="#ffffff";
headercolor="#000000";
image="images/orangedots.gif";
imagepadding=6;
offbgcolor="#1B2C85";
offcolor="#ffffff";
onbgcolor="#CC6600";
oncolor="#ffffff";
outfilter="randomdissolve(duration=0.3)";
overfilter="Fade(duration=0.2);Alpha(opacity=90);Shadow(color=#777777', Direction=135, Strength=5)";
overimage="images/whitedots.gif";
padding=6;
pagebgcolor="#82B6D7";
pagecolor="black";
separatorcolor="#ffffff";
separatorsize=1;
subimage="images/arrow.gif";
subimagepadding=2;
}

with(submenuStyle=new mm_style()){
bordercolor="#ffffff";
borderstyle="solid";
borderwidth=1;
fontfamily="Verdana, Tahoma, Arial";
fontsize="8pt";
fontstyle="normal";
fontweight="bold";
headerbgcolor="#ffffff";
headercolor="#000000";
offbgcolor="#82B6D7";
offcolor="#000000";
onbgcolor="#DC9B5B";
oncolor="#000000";
outfilter="randomdissolve(duration=0.3)";
overfilter="Fade(duration=0.2);Alpha(opacity=90);Shadow(color=#777777', Direction=135, Strength=5)";
padding=4;
pagebgcolor="#82B6D7";
pagecolor="black";
separatorcolor="#758CC9";
separatorsize=1;
subimage="images/arrow.gif";
subimagepadding=2;
}

with(milonic=new menuname("Top Menu")){
style=menuStyle;
alwaysvisible=1;
itemheight=20;
itemwidth=128;
left=220;
top=17;
orientation="horizontal";
aI("align=center;status=Overview;text=OVERVIEW;clickfunction=activatePage(1,null,null);");
aI("align=center;status=Selection Criteria;text=QUERY;clickfunction=activatePage(2,null,null);");
aI("align=center;showmenu=Generate;text=GENERATE;");
}

with(milonic=new menuname("Generate")){
style=submenuStyle;
itemheight=15;
itemwidth=200;
aI("align=left;showmenu=AverageEpisodeDuration;text=Average Episode Duration;");
aI("align=left;showmenu=DayCaseRate;text=Day Case Rate;");
}

with(milonic=new menuname("AverageEpisodeDuration")){
style=submenuStyle;
itemheight=15;
itemwidth=100;
aI("text=As a Chart;clickfunction=activatePage(3,'chart','AverageEpisodeDuration');");
aI("text=As a Table;clickfunction=activatePage(3,'table','AverageEpisodeDuration');");
}

with(milonic=new menuname("DayCaseRate")){
style=submenuStyle;
itemheight=15;
itemwidth=100;
aI("text=As a Chart;clickfunction=activatePage(3,'chart','DayCaseRate');");
aI("text=As a Table;clickfunction=activatePage(3,'table','DayCaseRate');");
}

drawMenus();

glennmsmith · Post by **glennmsmith** » Tue May 24, 2005 12:43 pm

Additional info, I turned on the script debugging option in IE and found that it is falling over in milonic_src.js, and the following is highlighted:

_Lhr=_L.href

Hope that is of some help - I could really really do with a fix for this purleeeese?

Glenn

Post by **John** » Tue May 24, 2005 3:35 pm

Put your code up on my server (NO changes at all except for calling the menu code from my site). I'm not seeing any errors indicated. Both menus load the first time.

glennmsmith · Post by **glennmsmith** » Tue May 24, 2005 3:41 pm

John

Interestingly, neither do I see errors. So perhaps it's the way in which my local PC has been configured to run TOMCAT. I'll look into it further, but in the mean time, thanks for what you did.

Glenn

Post by **John** » Tue May 24, 2005 3:53 pm

You're welcome. That's why we get the big bucks...

BTW, what is Tomcat?