testing with dhtml menu - reloads over and over...

Poster: kicker
Dated: Wednesday August 27 2008 - 5:38:41 BST

Hi y'all - I have been playing around with the dhtml menu demo to see about using it on a new site, but, when I put it in a page, it causes the page to reload over and over and over and over..... but I see nothing that is causing it...

the page I was testing with is: http://www.tennispensacola.com/index1.htm

I also have a copy of the downloaded demo index page here... http://www.tennispensacola.com/include/scripts/menu/

the demo index page works fine - the local index1 page is the one that reloads and reloads etc.

has anyone seen this sort of behavior? I searched here but found nothing that seemd to match the probelm I'm having?? -- perhaps this is something about the unlicensed demo - and I'll certainly get a lic, but I really want to see it work and bang it with several browsers etc. before I buy it.

Anyway - any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks y'all!

Re: testing with dhtml menu - reloads over and over...

Poster: John
Dated: Wednesday August 27 2008 - 14:48:13 BST

You're not set up properly for having the menu inside a table cell. Please see http://milonic.com/tablemenu.php for the correct procedure.

Re: testing with dhtml menu - reloads over and over...

Poster: kicker
Dated: Wednesday August 27 2008 - 16:45:25 BST

Thanks John - yes - I saw that and tried but without success - but WITH some changes.....

I see slightly different behavior when using an include file for the main manu VS putting an inline script for the main menu - both still reload - but I notice that, when I include the main menu as an inline script segment, it reloads less often AND every once in a while the MILONIC link shows as the left most link in the main menu.

I understand that this is related to use of the demo instead of a licenced copy - and I don't mind the milonic link there as I'm testing. But it doesn't show all the time and seems to be somehow related to the reloading.

I didn't do anything that I am aware of that would have removed ot made the demo milonic link not be in the menu all the time... not sure what is going on with that.

http://www.tennispensacola.com/index1.htm - currently using the inline script segment to define the main menu.

OH - also noticed changes in behavior depending on the name of the main menu...i.e.

...vs ...


ALSO. I do notice that, if I don't call drawMenus() - then the reload does not happen (and, of course, the menu doesn't show

Anyway - thanks again and I appreciate any pointers. I like the milonic stuff and have used an old version on another site for years. It did take a fair bit of work to make it really work in the frames of that site - but I guess the obfuscation was less or something (or I'm just older now and don't have time to dig too deep just to make a demo work) - http://classic.backbenimble.com/ -- would really like to get a lic for the new version for this new site but.....

Re: testing with dhtml menu - reloads over and over...

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Saturday August 30 2008 - 17:38:30 BST

Hi,

I must be confused but I cannot find the milonic menu on http://www.tennispensacola.com/index1.htm

I need the page where the problem is occuring in order to test things.

Ruth

Re: testing with dhtml menu - reloads over and over...

Poster: kicker
Dated: Saturday August 30 2008 - 20:00:30 BST

Hi Ruth - yes - sorry - I like the milonic stuff and will probably look at it again later - but I got tired of chasing the problem - and the only response I got from milonic was that it was something in out page (which sort of surprised me because I remember them having pretty good and responsive support in the past).

Anyway - I'm just using something else on the tennispensacola site for nopw - maybe a bit beter because it allows the various menus and links to be specified as simple html so no headache with spiders not seeing stuff in javascript etc.

Anyway - thanks for the response, I'll probably look at the milonic again some time in the future.

Re: testing with dhtml menu - reloads over and over...

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Saturday August 30 2008 - 22:53:08 BST

Not a problem. Milonic usually has very good support. For me, I can't do it unless I have the page that has the problem. I can then normally figure out the issue and give a fix.... kind of a hands on rather than program knowledgeable

Just so you know, you can code a page with listmenus and use the Milonic listmenu which will build itself from the existing list menu on the page. You don't have to worry about search engines, those who have js off and such.

There is also a separate frames menu version with Version 5.

Ruth

Re: testing with dhtml menu - reloads over and over...

Poster: kicker
Dated: Saturday August 30 2008 - 23:53:55 BST

Hey Ruth - yup - I agree about milonic suppport - at least, my previous expecience. I used an older version for an old framed site some years ago - the old site is still active at http://classic.backbenimble.com/ I DID have to make some changes to the milonic stuff to make it work well on that site, but it really wasn't too bad and the milonic stuff worked well.

Anyway - I like where they have come so I'll look again later.