Highlight of selected item in 1st level

Poster: Croata
Dated: Friday June 30 2006 - 21:56:40 BST

Hi!

If you compare the menues at http://www.milonic.com/frames/ and http://www.milonic.com/menu/frames/ you'll notice the last one keeps highlighting the selected item when you leave the side/header frame. This doesn't happens in the first one.

Of course, they use different .js files (4 in the 1st case, and 1 in the other). I've already built a complex menu using the 4.js-way, therefore I'm little confused about...

- Which approach is newer?
- Which one do you recommend to develop?
- Is avoidable the migration using a 4.js-way property to perform the permanent highlighting of the chosen main menu item?
- Is possible a migration for all the properties for the 4.js-way to the 1.js-way?

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Thanx a bunch,
Cro

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Saturday July 1 2006 - 14:53:51 BST

Hi,

The 1st link is to Version 5 of the menu. The second is to the old version 3. It was left up because in the early stages of v5 development it did not have frames capability, so any who had a developed site that had to use frames could still get that.

Version 3 is not supported since it hasn't been developed for about 4 years.

I'm not sure what you are asking with regard the menu. Are you asking about highlighting? There are properties in the menu for that. The page properties, i.e. pagebgcolor, pagecolor etc.

In the frames demo that property is not set so maybe that's why it's not highlighting. If you are referring to highlighting the menu to show where one is.

Ruth

Poster: Croata
Dated: Monday July 3 2006 - 17:29:38 BST



For better understanding I've prepared the following page:
http://www.dinko.cl/~dinko/menu

Hope it helps to understand the question about the lost highlight in the side menu

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Thanx again,
Cro

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Monday July 3 2006 - 18:38:44 BST

Hi,

Thanks, that makes it really clear. It looks as if the parent item is losing the mouseover color when you move to the sub. I hope it's fixable, but am not sure since this is frames. It is very involved to get the main and subs to communicate across frames. The menu, main and subs are all part of one dhtml object and such an object can't be in two frames at once, so programming has to be done to force communication across frames and make it occupy two frames. I hope that made sense.

Now having said that, Milonic is very quick to fix any bugs, if this is a bug, and they are dedicated in trying to get things users want. Sometimes I think Andy is an alien from another dimension who never requires sleep

I'll post to Milonic. Also, you might want to keep an eye on Menu Version Information page. Info on things fixed or added into a version are posted here. http://www.milonic.com/menuvinfo.php

Ruth