Milonic JavaScript Menu

halcyon

Great thanks for the info, I'm not in dire need of it being centered, I was just curious about it. and left aligned may infact be a better solution in regard to resizing and having people running at different resolutions etc.

Thanks!
-David

halcyon

Hey I just wanted to stop in and offer a thanks and great appreciation to the Milonic team, you guys rock. We've been using your menu system for a little over 6 months now, had some initial bugs and got most of them solved, and a few we just put on the back burner to solve more important coding ...

halcyon

Thanks for the idea Zeke, that would normally work except a huge chunk of our site is served up dynamically, in which case data on the screen could change and users could use information they were looking at simply by resizing the screen =(
-David

halcyon

Kevin: I tried position=float; That ironically as far as I have been able to test fixed the width problem, but introduced a new problem, mousing over and clicking does not do anything =) What is the behavior of float supposed to do?

with position not specified, at its default absolute, it sits over ...

halcyon

On another vein though, are we going to see the functionality of the menu being able to be resized inside of a table (relative)? IE I shrink/enlarge my browser window and the menu resizes appropriaetly? I know that works currently with absolute, but would be great for relative.

-David

halcyon

John: Ya that is exactly what I've got. the page the menu is in is actually far more complex than the code I listed, but I pulled all my scripting code except for the actual menu data itself up to the <head> tag, and placed only the menu data code inside the td in a <script> tag. The problem is ...

halcyon

Thanks for the suggestions maz and kevin, ya I have thought about using the menu absolutely positioned but I really would rather avoid that if possible because as far as I am aware you never actually know how tall your menu is. Suppose I lay it out as you suggested, the menu could be 100 pixels high ...

halcyon

I tried moving the scripts up and out of the table and only putting the items in the td and I'm still having trouble..

What I've found is the horizontal menu function works fantastic when its not set to relative positioning, it takes up the full screen, resizes etc. However when set to relative ...

halcyon

FYI this problem does not seem to appear in Netscape 7.1.
Any updates from the mods?
-David

halcyon

I'm going to go ahead and post some source to this so you can reproduce it on your own, links will need to be modified of course for wherever you have your scripts located on the machine you look at this on. The problems demonstrated with this code are:
1) Randomly the menu at the top won't fill the ...

halcyon

Thanks maz, that solved them bunching up all together, however the random problem of the menu not taking up the full width still exists, along with resizing not working. Here is a pic of what is randomly happening now still:

http://www.speakeasy.net/~halcyon/menu3.jpg

the gray background shows ...

halcyon

Any ideas?

halcyon

In addition to the above problem I've also noticed that randomly when I first hit a URL with the menu sometimes it will open the menu only like around 300 pixels wide, each item is just wide enuf to fill one of the words. IE if the menu item was "Product Info" that item would only be wide enough for ...

halcyon

Hi just wanted to report the problem I'm having. Currently using my menu in a 100% width table at the top of my page. The menu code is as follows:

with(milonic=new menuname("Marketing")){
alwaysvisible=1;
left="0";
menuwidth="100%";
orientation="horizontal";
position="relative";
style ...

halcyon

itemwidth="100%"; seems to be the essential piece.. I had the same problem with just menuwidth set to 100%.. add item width and your in business.
Thanks!!
-David

halcyon

Ok here is the resolution I ended up with for anyone down the road with a similar problem:

I had the menu style data contained in a file named menu_data.js, I chose to rename that to menu_data.jsp so our servlet engine (Tomcat) would process any jsp calls within the file. And on the offending line ...

halcyon

1) Could be done but the problem is I would have to embed my entire javascript style file inside a jsp for it to execute those commands.

2) Relative pathing is what we are shooting to completely avoid.

Any other ideas from the devs? Is there someway for JS to determine the context its running ...

halcyon

Hi we are using a webapp in Tomcat with these menus and the context it is deployed on can and will change. So far I've had to hardcode in what the exact link is, ie:
subimage="/salesweb/images/arrow.gif";

with salesweb being the app context. Now with jsp's I can simply use request.getContextPath ...

halcyon

In fact I'll give you the example of where this is in use at on our site. There is a menu item for "View Query" which is a query on some database stuff. Well after the query is loaded the user can click on the table headers to sort that information which will reload that file with url parameters ...

halcyon

Thanks for the reply Andy, let me make it a little more clear what the current behavior is and what the desired behavior is.

URL Current Desired
/viewFlexReferencesQuery.do highlighted highlighted
/viewFlexReferencesQuery.do?sort=name not-highlighted highlighted

Make sense? If that is the intended ...

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