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Taken From The Forum: Help & Support for DHTML Menu Version 5+
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Last Updated: Saturday July 14 2012 - 06:07:53
Help?
Poster: smashf18
Dated: Wednesday February 23 2005 - 0:09:28 GMT
Hi all. I am working on a website for my fraternity and trying to get the horizontal menubar to work before applying for the free license. I am having a lot of problems trying to get the mouseover to work. I keep getting error messages linking to the _menuCloseDelay &
_menuOpenDelay. The error says the two are undefined. Also, in frontpage, the if/else statements are brown as well as the entire path for the menubar. There appears to be no formatting linking to the menu_data.js file. Any suggestions or ideas? Any help is appreciated.
Will
Requested URL
Poster: smashf18
Dated: Wednesday February 23 2005 - 14:36:50 GMT
Here is a temporary URL I am using until the site is published:
http://www.angelfire.com/pa5/axpomegaphi5/
thanks!
Poster: John
Dated: Wednesday February 23 2005 - 15:25:29 GMT
Your _data file is pretty messed up. Some reading on proper syntax would be in order.
Code:
with(main=new menuname("omegaphi")){
Should be (ALL instances)...
Code:
with(milonic=new menuname("omegaphi")){
Code:
style="menuStyle";
Should be...
Code:
style=menuStyle;
No quotes around the style name.
Code:
aI("text=Undergraduate Brothers; showmenu=undergrad);
Should be...
Code:
aI("text=Undergraduate Brothers;showmenu=undergrad;");
Note missing closing " and no space between items (e.g., Brothers; show...). Also, all aI statements should close as shown - ;"); .
Code:
aI("text=National History;url=http://www.alphachirho.org/" target="_blank");
Should be...
Code:
aI("text=National History;url=http://www.alphachirho.org/;target=_blank;");
Code:
style=menuStyle";
Should be...
Code:
style=menuStyle;
Remove the trailing quote.
Also, move all the JS menu calls up to be the FIRST items after body.
A little less speed and a lot more care is suggested...
Thank you
Poster: smashf18
Dated: Wednesday February 23 2005 - 17:25:36 GMT
Thanks for the fixes. They are appearing now, just having a slight problem with the submenus, but I am sure it is related to sloppiness.
Poster: John
Dated: Wednesday February 23 2005 - 17:48:25 GMT
Yeah, you could say that.
The subs events, fun, and links, called by your main menu, are not defined anywhere.
Poster: smashf18
Dated: Wednesday February 23 2005 - 18:33:23 GMT
Those are not the ones I am having a problem with. Eventually I will creat pages for those. Right now as far as I can see I can't get under Omega Phi the Undergrads and Grads to appear. Did I make a mistake in the coding?
I really appreciate the help. I am sort of learning javascript "on the fly."
Will
Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Wednesday February 23 2005 - 20:09:05 GMT
Hi Will,
The "undergrad" and "grads" submenus are not showing because of the following code at the top of your menu_data.js file:
Code:
_subOffsetTop="10"
_subOffsetLeft="-10"
_subOffsetLeft="-10"
These are numeric variables, not string variables. So, remove the double quotes that you have around the values (making the values numeric). Like so:
Code:
_subOffsetTop=10
_subOffsetLeft=-10
_subOffsetLeft=-10
That should do it.
FYI: the reason the "omegaphi" submenu opened and the others didn't is because the top and left menu offsets only apply to submenus thath are opened from a vertical parent menu. If your main menu had been vertical, the omegaphi menu also would not have opened.
Cheers,
Kevin
Poster: smashf18
Dated: Thursday February 24 2005 - 0:52:28 GMT
Ah. So much better. Thanks for the help. It is greatly appreciated. I guess I just need to learn javascript better and slow down when I am typing everything.
This menu really is the greatest out there.
Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday February 24 2005 - 2:42:02 GMT
Hi,
You said you were new to the menu. You might take a look at the Beginners' Guide. It really is very basic, a pretty quick read with some examples for some basic things.
Ruth