Menu links are active when menu is not open

Poster: lgates
Dated: Wednesday March 17 2004 - 21:24:53 GMT

Having a problem with the menu...

The links in the menu I created are active and can be clicked even when the menu is not opened.

I'll be mousing over areas on the page that are "beneath" the menu and the cursor changes to a hand and the window status says it's a link.

Any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated.

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday March 18 2004 - 0:49:14 GMT

Could you post a url, please? We kind of need to see the menu in action. Also, have you actually tried clicking to see if they are active or if the mouse is only acting as if they are?

Ruth

Poster: lgates
Dated: Thursday March 18 2004 - 14:34:30 GMT

I've created a link for people to view but before you go there please read everything below.

The top navigation (Home, Academics, ... Career Planning) is the menu that's giving me problems. Please don't hover over or open up the menu first. You have to hover over the area in white where it reads "B.S. in Business Admin". That's where the menu is active. The cursor will change to a hand and on a Windows OS you'll even see the window status at the bottom change.

However, once you open up the menu, and hover back over the white area the links aren't active anymore. And it usually only happens the first time you visit the page.

Hope that made sense! It's kind of hard to explain.

http://www.bflo.com/medaille/degrees/business.asp

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday March 18 2004 - 18:18:04 GMT

Yes, it makes senses. Two things, one you have the call for the menu in the table instead of actually putting the main menu there as per the info on the tablebound sample. You should go get that and place the menu according to how it shows it. Second, I downloaded the files and it seems you're way back at rc31. That means something like a minimum of 25 or so newer releases have been done, we are actually in final now, 5.07 is the latest. Try updating and putting the menu actually in the table instead of the call and see if that fixes it. I did see it, but for me it was only after I did a mouseover on the menu and had a submenu open, then it showed it active in the text area, and stayed that way. win98se and ie5.5

Ruth

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday March 18 2004 - 18:18:05 GMT

Note your topic has been moved to the proper area.

First, before any help can be given, you must update to the current version of the menu system. You are running RC31, and we are now at release version 5.07. More versions down that I can actually remember! As stated on the main site, old versions "...are now obsolete and are no longer supported."

Check the included readme and install files, as many things have changed.

Poster: lgates
Dated: Thursday March 18 2004 - 18:32:06 GMT

Is that possible to be so many versions back when we purchased the software only 4 months ago, December 29, 2003?

This is what it reads at the top of the mmenudom.js file:

Version 5.0 Release Candidate 31.0 Built: Wednesday December 17 2003 - 15:56

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday March 18 2004 - 18:36:02 GMT

To be quite honest, I'm not sure how to read your question, so I'll just say this - if you weren't that far back I wouldn't have said it...

Poster: Andy
Dated: Thursday March 18 2004 - 18:42:12 GMT

December? Absolutely, 3 months is quite a lot of development time and I think you are about 20 or something releases behind.

The Internet is such a fast moving entity that is constantly evolving. people complain about renewing their support with us but they just don't realise how much effort goes into keeping this menu in tip top shape.

Left for any long period of time it becomes obsolete very quickly. That's why you sometimes see several releases per week. Web browsers are still evolving and any changes that occur will ultimately have an effect on the menu.

Anyway, upgrading is definitely a good idea. We can then re-assess the situation after you've done it and if it still fails.

Cheers
Andy

Poster: lgates
Dated: Thursday March 18 2004 - 18:48:16 GMT

Thanks Andy & Ruth for your help, I'll get the latest version and see how that goes.

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Thursday March 18 2004 - 20:24:53 GMT

This is definitely a release issue. The exact same problem appears in this thread. Updating fixed it.

Kevin