bread crumbs (page matching) over (regular) frames

[luisraposo]

hi,

I have two frames, one for the main menu, other for contents and sub-menus: followed guidelines from http://milonic.com/frames/, and split the menus in two files.

To highlight menu items I'm following the advise on http://support.milonic.com/demos/breadcrumb/index.htm.
I added the same code on both menu-data files.

This works good for sub-menus, but the main menu option does not get highlighted.

I would appreciate your help to guide me,
luis

[Ruth]

Hi,

I don't think that is possible. The reason it works on the subs is they are all in the same frame. But, the main and subs are in different frames and aren't really the same 'menu' There's special programming that gets your menu in one frame to talk to your menu in the other one as far as opening and closing, note the offfunction and onfunction coding in the main menu where there is nothing like that in the subs.

There is a module for pagehighlighting. http://support.milonic.com/demos/

It's down at the bottom area called Page Highlighting Module.

Ruth

[luisraposo]

thanks Ruth,

I had also gone through http://milonic.com/menufaq.php#linkHighlight without success

please note that both links at http://support.milonic.com/demos/mmpage ... /index.htm http://support.milonic.com/demos/mmpage ... r_demo.zip and http://milonic.com/mmpagehighligher.js are not working

Could you provide me the script?

luis

[Ruth]

Hi,

I don't know what you mean by are not working. I just went to

http://support.milonic.com/demos/mmpage ... /index.htm

and clicked on the number 3. ) Using a menu item's clickfunction property

The demo page does the highlighting just fine. The color changes from mint green to bright orange when each item is clicked. Each item is coded for use of one of the 3 methods to do the highlighting.

Ruth

[luisraposo]

sorry Ruth,

maybe I didn't explain well: the file links at the very bottom of the page, with the examples, are not working, I can not download them

thanks for all your help,
luis

[Ruth]

It would help if I spelled the words correctly in the url.

Try it now, it should work fine.

Ruth

[luisraposo]

Hi,

I don't think that is possible. The reason it works on the subs is they are all in the same frame. But, the main and subs are in different frames and aren't really the same 'menu' There's special programming that gets your menu in one frame to talk to your menu in the other one as far as opening and closing, note the offfunction and onfunction coding in the main menu where there is nothing like that in the subs.

There is a module for pagehighlighting. http://support.milonic.com/demos/

It's down at the bottom area called Page Highlighting Module.

Ruth

the links are OK now Ruth, thanks

but the problem remains:
- the page highlight works good only on sub-menus, I am not able to highlight a main menu option (on a different frame), from a sub-menu option
- more, a second manual highlight does not remove the first highlight; the same happens using the "highlightme()" - this works fine with the breadCrumbs

it seems this story does not have an happy ending..

anyhow, thanks a lot for all your efforts

luis

[luisraposo]

hello again,

On the meantime I've tried to use iframes, but I get a script error and can not load the page in the frame.
The error is the same as in the example http://support.milonic.com/demos/breadcrumb/index.htm when I click
"Test 1" - "test 1.1" - "Load page in IFRAME"

Line: 29
Char: 5
Error: '_mi[...]' is null or not an object
Code: 0
URL: http://support.milonic.com/demos/breadcrumb/index.htm

I am using Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 on Win XP SP2

What may be wrong?

luis

[luisraposo]

hello there,

any news on this subject?

thanks,
luis

[Ruth]

Hi,

I'm sorry, I thought I emailed you.... Dang old age is a pain!

You need to contact Milonic about what's happening. I have notified them of the problem in the demos. As to the other, since I am not a programmer, I really don't know what part of the code needs to be tweeked or modified or if it can even be done to do what you want. I have a feeling that due to the frames this is not going to work. Any of the things except the one for page highlighting for iframes [when it's fixed] are not going to work backwards, i.e. change the main menu when a submenu item is clicked. There is no backwards communication since in reality the 'main' and the so-called 'subs' are not really one menu but two different ones situated on different pages.

Ruth

[luisraposo]

hi Ruth,

Bad excuse, I don't think anyone gets old in California's sunshine
Don't worry, I was just wondering, since I am still working on this..

Thanks for your help, and for pushing the iframes issue to the development team.

kind regards,
luis