Recent Questions
Q: We recently bought your product.
We are developing in ASP.NET (VB) and we have a problem making you deluxe menu dynamic to suit our needs. We are using the Deluxe Menu.
The problem is each time a page with dhtml nav loads, we want to be able to generate the menuItems variable to reflect the options the individual user has, so it can't be hard coded into data.js it MUST be provided by an aspx file and attached somehow. I can't work out how to attach the variable (even a static one) as a separate file, so if you can do it with a static one, we can extend it to a dynamic one later.
For example the JS in the data.js file we want the MenuItem dimension you be loaded in a seperate file, some kind of include.
var menuItems = [
["Home","index.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["About","about.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["Contact","contact.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["Help","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|HowTo Register","RegHelp.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|FAQ","FAQ.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|Dos 'n' Don'ts","DoDont.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|Workshop","workshop.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["Gold Run","", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|About Goldrun","goldrunAbout.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|Veiw Sites","GoldDistribSites.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["My Run","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|About","aboutmyrun.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["TICs","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|About","abouttics.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["Metro","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|About","aboutmetro.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["Distribution","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|About","DistribAbout.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|Status","DistribStatus.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|News","DistribNews.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|Display Units","DistribDisplay.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|Team","", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|View Sites","DistribSites.aspx", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
["|TIC Budget","", "", "", "", "_self", "", "", "", "", "", ],
];
Hope this makes sense.
A: You can move
var menuItems = [
...
];
dm_init();
dhtml nav code from your data file to your page (template) directly:
<script>
var menuItems = [
...
];
dm_init();
</script>
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've tried to add the pathPrefix_img as suggested and I'm still having trouble with images.
Can you provide anymore feedback on what I'm doing wrong?
A: Now you have such paths:
var pathPrefix_img="http://www.domain-name.com/images/";
and
var arrowImageMain=["CFTopMenu.files/arrv_white_1.gif",""];
So, the full path we'll be:
http://www.domain-name.com/images/CFTopMenu.files/arrv_white_1.gif
Is it right?
I've tried to download your image from this link. There is no such image.
If you want to put all your images into the "images" folder you should write so:
var pathPrefix_img="http://www.domain-name.com/images/";
and
var arrowImageMain=["arrv_white_1.gif",""];
Please, check that you upload all your images on the server in the right places.
Q: I'm having a problem displaying a little white icon arrow on my dhtml foldout menu. I us Adobe Dreamweaver to build my site. When previewing, I found that adding . /.. to the .js file works good and it displays the arrows. But when I Put the menu on the internet it goes back to displaying a blank box like it can t find it again. My menu is in my site's root directory, and I would like to control all my site's pages with it. I am going to have a basic template for the whole site with the dhtml foldout menu on it and I am to building all the pages from that.
If I don't change the link to ../../ the only pages that will work is the one that is in the same directory as my menu files.
A: Try to use absolute paths to your images on the website. Your menu will work correctly inall cases in that case.
var pathPrefix_img="http://www.domain.org/Fundraising/Scrip/";
var arrowImageMain=["data.files/arrv_white_1.gif",""];
var arrowImageSub=["data.files/arr_white_1.gif",""];
or
var pathPrefix_img="";
var arrowImageMain=["http://www.domain.org/Fundraising/Scrip/data.files/arrv_white_1.gif",""];
var arrowImageSub=["http://www.domain.org/Fundraising/Scrip/data.files/arr_white_1.gif",""];
