Recent Questions
Q: You've been helping me with some issues on the Deluxe Tree Menu system my company has purchased and most issues are resolved, so thank you! One big problem remains though and we can't seem to figure it out, so I hope you can help.
What we want is, when a user enters our site from the index (home) page then clicks on a link and the sub-page opens, for the dhtml menu tree to be open to the section the user is in and viewing. We also DO NOT want the browser to save the state of the menu, since that is inconsistent with where the user is in the site. Note: we do not use the Menu on the home page, is this a problem?
Per your tech support email, I've added the expand code, which works going from the home page to sub-pages. However, it interferes with navigating to other sub-pages once your in the site. The menu doesn't keep the section open, it closes back up. You mentioned the expand code has to be entered on every page....is that so in this instance and if so, that's a maintenance nightmare - does a better way exist for this type of menu?
Then we activated the "save state" option and the menu stays open on the sub-pages, but the expand option doesn't work.
It's like they cancel each other out and you can only have one or the other.
Can I get these two to work together? What do I need to do? Is it better to use the XP-style menu?
A: When user clicks the link, the browser loads a new page and the script re-create the dhtml menu tree.
If you want to open the needed section automatically on load you can use the following:
1. Save the state to cookies
2. Use frames
3. Put the special script on each page of site that will open appropriate section.
(dtreet_ext_expandItem)
Q: We haven't managed to find out how to activate a popup window through click in a flash? Is there possible to call a single jsfunction to activate it?
A: You can deluxePopupWindow.open() function to open your window:
<a href="javascript:;" onclick="deluxePopupWindow.open('window1', 'Content1 Content1','Window1','width=220,height=100,resizable,scrollbars=no,middle,right,fade-effect', 'windowsvista_graphite')">
<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" WIDTH="120" HEIGHT="40">
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="deluxe-menu.files/flash-deluxe-menu.swf">
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=best>
<param name="wmode" value="opaque">
<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#FFFFFF>
<EMBED src="deluxe-menu.files/flash-deluxe-menu.swf" quality=best bgcolor=#FFFFFF wmode="opaque" WIDTH="120" HEIGHT="40" NAME="data-samples/flash-deluxe-menu" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT></a>Q: I currently have the menus set to show the selected item in white and the non-selected items in blue.
However, I can only choose one item in each menu.
Is there any way to choose multiple items from a single ajax drop down menu and have all of selected items show white? If so, what option do I need to enable for the ajax drop down menu?
Programmatically, I think it would be similar to something to:
dm_ext_setPressedItem (1,1,1);
dm_ext_setPressedItem (1,1,2);
A: No, Deluxe Menu doesn't has a feature to highlight multiple items now.
Actually you can use the following function:
function dm_ext_changeItem (menuInd, submenuInd, itemInd, iParams)
You can create Individual Item Style with style of selected item andusing this function assign it for the items you want to highlight
dm_ext_changeItem(0, 0, 1, ["Deluxe Menu Info", "", "", "", "ajax drop down menu hint",,"1"]);
Q: Then it is a bit annoying now that the menu bars in java does not work for
- Firefoxs
- Safari
For either Windows nor Mac.
According to your browser support this should work.
A: Links in your menu bars in java don't work in Firefox.
Now you have:
["Butiken","http://www.wexthuset.com/default.asp?sp_pid=8&sp_text=8"],
["|Tillbehцr","http://www.wexthuset.com/default.asp?ct=859&sp_pid=2&sp_page=1&sp_psort=22&
sp_sortfield=product_name&sp_sortorder=1&sp_pname=&sp_type=0&select_method=1"],
["||Belysning","http://www.wexthuset.com/default.asp?ct=859&sp_pid=2&sp_page=1&sp_psort=22&
sp_sortfield=product_name&sp_sortorder=1&sp_pname=&sp_type=5&select_method=1"],
["||Bevattning","http://www.wexthuset.com/default.asp?ct=859&sp_pid=2&sp_page=1&sp_psort=22&
sp_sortfield=product_name&sp_sortorder=1&sp_pname=&sp_type=11&select_method=1"],
....
try to write & instead of &.
["Butiken","http://www.wexthuset.com/default.asp?sp_pid=8&sp_text=8"],
["|Tillbehцr","http://www.wexthuset.com/default.asp?ct=859&sp_pid=2&sp_page=1&sp_psort=22&sp_sortfield=product_name&
sp_sortorder=1&sp_pname=&sp_type=0&select_method=1"],
["||Belysning","http://www.wexthuset.com/default.asp?ct=859&sp_pid=2&sp_page=1&sp_psort=22&sp_sortfield=product_name&
sp_sortorder=1&sp_pname=&sp_type=5&select_method=1"],
["||Bevattning","http://www.wexthuset.com/default.asp?ct=859&sp_pid=2&sp_page=1&sp_psort=22&sp_sortfield=product_name&
sp_sortorder=1&sp_pname=&sp_type=11&select_method=1"],
....