Frame Menu Link and Submenu problem

Poster: coefficient
Dated: Monday February 26 2007 - 20:51:52 GMT

I am having a hard time getting the frame menu to work properly as described in the documentation on the web site.



Problem: The submenu appears in the right frame, but the url for the main menu item does not target to the right frame. the link stays in the current frame of the main menu. It should go to the same frame as the submenu.

here are my frames:

<frameset framespacing="0" border="0" frameborder="0" rows="94,*">
<frame name="header" scrolling="no" noresize target="mainframe"
src="/top.html">
<frame name="mainframe" src="/main.html">

</frameset>


here is the menu code:

_menuCloseDelay=500 // The time delay for menus to remain visible on mouse out
_menuOpenDelay=50 // The time delay before menus open on mouse over
_followSpeed=5 // Follow scrolling speed
_followRate=50 // Follow scrolling Rate
_subOffsetTop=5 // Sub menu top offset
_subOffsetLeft=10 // Sub menu left offset
_scrollAmount=3 // Only needed for Netscape 4.x
_scrollDelay=20 // Only needed for Netcsape 4.x



with(AllImagesStyle=new mm_style()){
bordercolor="";
borderstyle="";
padding=5;
fontstyle="normal";
fontweight="normal";
}


with(menuSub=new mm_style()){
onbgcolor="#8685B6";
oncolor="#ffffff";
offbgcolor="#E7E7EF";
offcolor="#000000";
bordercolor="#B8BAC6";
borderstyle="solid";
borderwidth=1;
separatorcolor="#8685B6";
separatorsize="0";
separatorwidth="0";
padding=4;
fontsize="11px";
fontstyle="normal";
fontfamily="Arial, Helvetica, Verdana";
pagecolor="black";
pagebgcolor="";
headercolor="";
headerbgcolor="";
subimage="/content/art/arrow.gif";
subimagepadding="2";
onborder="0px solid #4F7C1F";
overfilter="Fade(duration=0.2);Alpha(opacity=100);sShadow(color='#626090', Direction=135, Strength=1)";
outfilter="fade(duration=0.3)";
}

with(menuStyle=new mm_style()){
onbgcolor="transparent";
oncolor="#CCCCFF";
offbgcolor="transparent";
offcolor="#ffffff";
bordercolor="";
borderstyle="solid";
borderwidth=0;
separatorcolor="transparent";
separatorsize="0";
separatorwidth="10";
padding=5;
fontsize="12px";
fontstyle="normal";
fontfamily="Arial, Helvetica, Verdana";
pagecolor="";
pagebgcolor="";
headercolor="";
headerbgcolor="";
//subimage="art/arrow.gif";
//subimagepadding="2";
onborder="0px solid #4F7C1F";
overfilter="Fade(duration=0.2);Alpha(opacity=100);sShadow(color='#777777', Direction=135, Strength=5)";
outfilter="fade(duration=0.3)";
}


with(milonic=new menuname("Main Menu")){
style=menuStyle;
top=66;
left=150;
alwaysvisible=1;
orientation="horizontal";
aI("text=Corporate;showmenu=Corporate;url=/corporate.html;target=mainframe;onfunction=openSubmenu();offfunction=closeSubmenu();");
aI("text=Storage;showmenu=Storage;url=/storage.html;target=mainframe;onfunction=openSubmenu();offfunction=closeSubmenu();");
//aI("text=Management Software;target=mainframe;showmenu=Management Software;status=Management Software;onfunction=openSubmenu();offfunction=closeSubmenu();");
//aI("text=Wireless Technology;url=/content/wireless_tech-services.html;showmenu=Wireless Technology;status=Wireless Technology;");
//aI("text=Solutions;url=/content/solutions.html;status=Solutions;onfunction=openSubmenu();offfunction=closeSubmenu();");
//aI("text=Events & News;url=/content/news.html;status=Events & News;target=mainframe;showmenu=Events & News;onfunction=openSubmenu();offfunction=closeSubmenu();");
//aI("text=Search;url=/content/search.html;status=Search;onfunction=openSubmenu();offfunction=closeSubmenu();");
//aI("text=Contact Us;url=/content/contact_us.html;status=Contact Us;target=mainframe");
//aI("text=Home;target=mainframe;url=/content/index.html;status=Back To Home Page;");
}



drawMenus();

here is the javascript code:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="/includes/javascript/milonic_src.js" TYPE="text/javascript"></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
if(ns4)_d.write("<scr"+"ipt language=JavaScript src=/includes/javascript/mmenuns4.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
else _d.write("<scr"+"ipt language=JavaScript src=/includes/javascript/mmenudom.js><\/scr"+"ipt>");
</SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript" SRC="/includes/javascript/menu_data_main.js"></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" TYPE="text/javascript" SRC="/includes/javascript/print_code.js"></SCRIPT>

Please advise....

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Tuesday February 27 2007 - 8:57:13 GMT

Hi,

I think we will have to see the pages.

1. You have not listed any call for the submenus, which needs to be on the main.html page.

2. you don't seem to have the call for the mm_navframe.js file which needs to be on the top.html page

Have you set this up using the frames example in the download?

Poster: coefficient
Dated: Wednesday February 28 2007 - 17:43:20 GMT

Please go to http://65.109.165.17 to see the behavior of the links across the top. The submenus work fine. it is the links on the main menu that do not push to the main.html page.

Poster: coefficient
Dated: Wednesday February 28 2007 - 17:47:08 GMT

here is the code of the top.html

Poster: coefficient
Dated: Wednesday February 28 2007 - 20:50:17 GMT

I went back and edited the sample provided in the download and had the same problem when using external links.

I think I will need to data files to use with my header frame, one for external pages and the other for internal pages. I will write a script to check what is displayed in the main frame to push the right header in the top.html page.