Opera Sub Menus or Lack of them...

Poster: jondoe_264
Dated: Thursday March 25 2004 - 13:48:49 GMT

I have recently downloaded the menus for impementaion into a new site I'm developing. When I'm ready to go live I will of course be purchasing a liscence, but have been ok'd to get it all working as i want before purchasing a liscence and going live.

I'm having a problem with Opera browser, it doesn't seem to want to display my sub menu's, I have put my current test page online for the purpose of this post, so people can have a look see for themselves and perhaps offer some suggestions? Any help is most appreciated:

http://www.7twenty.co.uk/coyote/consoleindex.htm

Many thanks,

Chris.

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday March 25 2004 - 13:54:19 GMT

You're 3 versions down in the menu code. You have 5.06, current is 5.09, with 5.1 right around the corner. Upgrade the menu.

What version of Opera? We've had a number of issues lately that were solved, at least in part, by going to their current version (along with the menu upgrade), 7.23 last time I looked.

Poster: jondoe_264
Dated: Thursday March 25 2004 - 14:03:09 GMT

Oh? I download the menus via the download image on the Milonic site two weeks ago, have the menus moved on that much since then? Ok, I'll download the newer versions, will I have to change all my menu_data files etc?

JD

Poster: jondoe_264
Dated: Thursday March 25 2004 - 14:21:19 GMT

Ok, I downloaded the new menus, is still good in everything else, but not in my Opera so I'll download the latest Version of opera as I stil have like 6.01 ! LOL ! Ooops ! Thanks ! I'll report back with the results of using the latest version of Opera!

thanks again !

chris.

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday March 25 2004 - 14:23:26 GMT

Two weeks is an eternity with this program! We've had times in the RC-era when there were 4 releases a day.

Tip - in http://www.milonic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3108 set the "Watch this topic" option. I post only new release info there, so you will get an e-mail when a new version hits the streets.

No changes will be necessary to your _data file (assuming it's up to the current syntax standards!). Just upload the 3 menu code files.

Just looked and your syntax is pretty close. The only thing I see is in items that contain a numeric parameter (borderwidth="0";), you can leave out the " ", as borderwidth=0;. The " " implies a string, which a numeric is not. No biggie - just picky.

Poster: jondoe_264
Dated: Thursday March 25 2004 - 14:49:13 GMT

Does that apply for all numeric values, that they don't require " ", like seperatorsize, padding, fontsize etc ? Just want to get it all as correct as posible!

Cheers,

Chris.

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday March 25 2004 - 15:00:38 GMT

Yes. The only difference would be a number value that included text as part of its definition; e.g., fontsize = "12px"; (as opposed to fontsize = 12;), or followscroll = "1,100,2"; (as opposed to followscroll = 1;).

That make any sense?

Poster: jondoe_264
Dated: Thursday March 25 2004 - 16:31:00 GMT

Yeah , that's great. just gotta get my new opera now and see how that goes! Cheers,

Chris.

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday March 25 2004 - 22:30:43 GMT

Just for your info, I have Opea 6.05 and the menu worked fine, with just one thing - seemed kind of cool actually - when the subemenus first opened they blinked out and back in real quick then stayed open. Not sure, but maybe that had to do with the ad that rotates in opera. Anyway, it worked fine in 6.05

Ruth

Poster: jondoe_264
Dated: Thursday March 25 2004 - 23:40:36 GMT

That's real good to know! thanks for that Ruth ! I haven't gotten round to getting newer Opera yet , so very useful, thank you!

Chris

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Friday March 26 2004 - 0:44:20 GMT

Here's my two cents:

I looked at your site in IE6/NS7.1/Op6.05/Op7.2 in Win2k.

IE6 and NS7.1 looked fine. In Opera 6.05, none of the submenus opened. In Opera 7.2, all submenus opened, but that "art" menu (under the "Art Projects" main menu item) had its right border cut off... the text showed, but the right border did not. I suspect that putting a little padding around the items might help.

This is totally a shot in the dark, but I recall that in the version 3 days of the Milonic Menu, Opera 6 had problems if you loaded the menu scripts in the <head>. You might try moving the <script> tags that load the menu scripts out of the <head> and put them right after the opening <body> tag.

The other possibility is this: There seem to be a few cross-browser quirks when putting javascript inside of tables. Since (IMO) Opera 6 is one of the quikiest of the "newer" browsers, I suspect that the fact that you're embedding your main menu in a table might be part of the issue. With your site layout, there's no need to put the menu in a table that I can see... you can achieve the same layout using the menu's built-in positioning capabilities. Just another possibility to try.

Cheers,

Kevin

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Friday March 26 2004 - 3:18:17 GMT

I should have specified, I'm on win98se.

Ruth