test to see if menu is showing

Poster: Mrfunkleberry
Dated: Saturday May 14 2005 - 23:17:36 BST

How can i test to see if a menu if showing?

i think need to search through _m
and return 'menu1' or 'menu2' etc
if that menu is showing.

Can't seem to find a good description of _m
but i assume its stored in there somewhere _m[?]

any help?

This is the last thing i have to do before i have an Iframe/ie/firefox/safari compatable menu (taken me all day!)

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Sunday May 15 2005 - 4:39:12 BST

I'm not sure what you mean. I would put it no the web and and go to the site and see if it's there.

Ruth

done it...

Poster: Mrfunkleberry
Dated: Sunday May 15 2005 - 8:20:28 BST

found it...

for(_a=1;_a<_m.length;_a++)
{
if (_m[_a][7] == 1) { activemenu = _a; }
}

Poster: John
Dated: Monday May 16 2005 - 16:45:34 BST

Ruth is correct - just post the page and see what you get. There is no reason to be messing with the code, which will void all support.

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Tuesday May 17 2005 - 1:06:13 BST

Hi Mr. Funkleberry,



I think my friends may have misunderstood... understandable given the phrasing of the question. You don't mean that you want to see for yourself if the menu is visible on a page. You mean that you want to programatically test to see if a given menu, at a given time, is open or not.

Unfortunately, I think you're on the wrong track (you may have discovered this by now). _m[7] represents the menu's [i]alwaysvisible property, which essentially determines whether a menu is treated as a "main" menu (i.e., one that is always open) or not. if _m[i][7] is 1 or true, then the menu is always visible.

I recall doing a similar test some time ago. I think I got the menu object for the menu in question, then tested it's visibility attribute. I'll dig around and see if I can find the code I used and post it.

Cheers,

Kevin

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Tuesday May 17 2005 - 1:37:33 BST

Hi Again,

Here is the thread I was thinking of. The mm_isOpen() function is what I had in mind. It worked then. Don't see why it wouldn't work now, although I can't swear to what browsers it'll work with. You may want to test it in all of your target browsers and tweak as needed.

Hope that helps,

Kevin