Menu appearing behind flash banners

Poster: vexorg
Dated: Thursday April 12 2007 - 13:51:44 BST

Hi,

As per the topic, "flash" banners (.swf) appear above the menus and prevent navigation of the affected menu items.

The first fix appears to be to "Add fixMozillaZIndex=true; to the top of your menu_data.js file". I cannot find menu_data.js.

We are running an old version of the menu its is v5.721 from April 2005. I appreciate that this may make it difficult for a solution, but was there a menu_data.js way back then?. I found a support forum thread from May 2005 which gave the above solution, but refered to menu v5.723. I would appreciate if someone could confirm that I do or do not have a menu_data.js file to amend, so at least i can try to track the file down:)

We have not updated the menu yet as it is dynamicallly updated as we created and add new forums, we now have over 500 forums and the menu is well used. Forums are http://www.boards.ie if that is helpful.

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday April 12 2007 - 20:12:22 BST

Hi,

I don't even see a Milonic menu coded on the page you gave and I can't find any calls for the milonic files. Can you link to a forum that has the menu?

Ruth

Poster: vexorg
Dated: Friday April 13 2007 - 12:10:51 BST

Ruth

Sorry about that, we have the menu switched off for guests to reduce the load on the server. I have created an account for you and have pm'd the user name and password to you, and also put up a flash (.swf) banner and included a link to this so you can see the issue. (I am sure you have seen it before, but just trying to cover all the bases).

Thanks

Poster: vexorg
Dated: Friday April 13 2007 - 12:15:29 BST

Oops - private messaging switched off on the forum -

EDIT: info and link removed by Ruth



I will disable this account tonight to prevent any abuse if it:). The flash banner up at this location link: -[removed]

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Friday April 13 2007 - 15:54:53 BST

Hi,

I removed the link and the info for you. Thanks, that made it easy.

The part of your menu_data.js file where you'd put the _fixMozillaZIndex IF YOU COULD, WHICH YOU CAN'T is on the page itself just after the call for the milonic_src.js and mmenudom.js files. At least I think it's on the page, that's where I see it in viewsource, but not sure if you are running a database menu, i.e. php etc. Anyway, this is the area where it would go, if you could use it



the other file dhtmlmenus.js is the rest of the menu_data.js file.

You can't use that fix because it was not instituted until version 5.722, so in order to do what you want, you'd need to update your menu to the newest version. When you update, make sure you save your existing milonic_src.js, mmenudom.js files someplace where they aren't overwritten, in case the update caused problems with your existing menu, though it shouldn't.

When you update, then just add the _fixMozlliaZIndex=true; to the top of the area I posted up above, that's all you need to do, plus upload just the milonic_src.js file and the mmenudom.js file from the new version. The other files you have, what's on the page and the dhtmlmenus files are the user editable files, so you'd just leave them. Once you upload the new files, test and see if everything is OK, if it is, there you go. If not, just replace the new milonic_src.js and mmenudom.js with the old ones until we can figure what the problem might be.

Hope this helps

Ruth

Poster: vexorg
Dated: Friday April 13 2007 - 16:21:10 BST

Hi Ruth

Thanks for your comprehensive reply. It may be a little while before we attempt to upgrade but I will feed back and let you know if it works.

Regards

Poster: John
Dated: Friday April 13 2007 - 16:27:23 BST

Just as a reminder, for support here in the Forum the current version (now 5.772) of the menu system is required to be installed.