little position bug on first appearance

Poster: ybouc
Dated: Saturday March 20 2004 - 4:20:28 GMT

Hi everyone, me again !

Been installing the menu on a new site, and once again, i'm using only images. Anyways, there seems to be a bug with the relative positioning : whenever i open a sub-menu for the first time, it doesn't appear in the correct position. However, as soon as it closes, any time i would open it again will be fine...

Also, as far as i know, i'm using the latest version of the code.

take a look here :
http://www.talieoh.com/bio/bio.html

BTW, this one is a soft-core adult site, so i'm just giving you a heads-up..

thanks in advance for your help !

Yannick

Re: little position bug on first appearance

Poster: John
Dated: Sunday March 21 2004 - 3:30:23 GMT


Actually 5.07 is current (you're running 5.04), with 5.08 lurking in the shadows but slightly misplaced. Try one of those and then we'll look again.

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Sunday March 21 2004 - 4:03:56 GMT

One thing I noticed when trying to play with it, you are using left="offset=number"; in the submenus, wouldn't you be using the _subOffsetTop=10 or whatever before you declare your style in the submenus? I'm not 100% on that but I swear I saw someplace about putting the subOffsets right there.

Ruth

Poster: John
Dated: Sunday March 21 2004 - 16:39:38 GMT

Correction to the above, Yannick - we're now at 5.09...

Re: little position bug on first appearance

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Wednesday March 24 2004 - 0:50:42 GMT

Hi Yannick,

I just checked the site (thoroughly ) and I don't see the problem. I tried IE6/NS7.1/Win2k. Have you fixed the problem then? If not, what browser/OS are you seeing the problem in?

Nice site design by the way... clever combination of images and offsets in your submenus to get that button-over-menu look.

Kevin

Poster: ybouc
Dated: Wednesday March 24 2004 - 12:04:50 GMT

thanks for the compliment, Kevin !

You have no idea how much work it is though... cos i cannot really use transparency because of that outer glow, so i have to _cut every button on every page to match the different backgrounds_ ... ... anyways !

so i updated the code to the latest version (just did about 5 minutes ago), and i do see the problem still. It happens only on the very first time that you open a menu... afterwards, it's perfectly fine.

anyways, i took a screenshot of it, for your reference :

http://www.talieoh.com/menu_offset.gif

so that's about it...

thanks,


Yannick

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Wednesday March 24 2004 - 17:32:06 GMT

Hi Yannick,

Yeah... I've had to do that before for a DemoShield installation front end. Definitely a pain. I hope you're charging by the hour!

So... I'm still not seeing it in IE6/Win2k. What are you using?

Kevin

Poster: ybouc
Dated: Wednesday March 24 2004 - 17:39:42 GMT

in IE6/XP i still have it....

and no, not charging by the hour... ... but we'll be getting a cut from the profits as well, so we'll hopefully be even...

Poster: John
Dated: Wednesday March 24 2004 - 19:54:44 GMT

OK, I see it - XP Pro/IE6 - just like your image, and, as you say, only the first menu hit on a page. Following hits are lined up perfectly. As yet, however, I don't have a fix.

Poster: John
Dated: Wednesday March 24 2004 - 20:18:30 GMT

Jeez, I hate stuff like this.

I took your site and put it up on one of my servers at http://www.west.asu.edu/sa/testsite/to/. Changed nothing (although a few things need tweaking) and tested. Everything worked perfectly first time. It's the same machine that I get the failure on at your site!

OK, the only difference is I was using my local copies of the menu code (but still your downloaded _data file).

Changed over to using your menu code and my local _data file. Still OK.

Changed over to using your copy of the _data file and it fails as before!

Right now the URL above is set to use your code files and my local copy of the _data file. Let me know what you see (and please don't ask what's going on!)...

Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Wednesday March 24 2004 - 21:53:45 GMT

two more cents...

I do not get the odd behavior in IE6/Win2k on either the original site or John's test site. However, I do get the odd behavior in NS7.1/Win2k at both sites... only on first mouseover, as described. Even odder... if I refresh, I don't get the problem again. I only see it on the first mouseover after I have opened the browser.

I notice a few errors in your menu_data.js file.

(1) There are several occurences of ;; in your aI() strings. Change these to ; (a single semicolon).

(2) There are three occurrences of ;;; in your aI() strings. Change them to ;

(3) The aI() string should always end with a ; before the closing "... like so:

(4) There is no menu style property called spacing, but you have spacing="0" in your menuStyle. I'd get rid of it.

(5) Change padding="0" to padding=0 in your menuStyle

(6) Change separatorsize="0" to separatorsize=0 in your menuStyle

(7) Since you have separatorsize=0 in your menuStyle, there's no need to define it in each aI() item... I'd take that out of each aI().

Let's see if any of those help.

Kevin

Poster: John
Dated: Wednesday March 24 2004 - 22:10:08 GMT


Those were my "although a few things need tweaking" items...

Poster: John
Dated: Wednesday March 24 2004 - 23:14:53 GMT

Forgot - there are also some unclosed tags in your HTML.

Poster: ybouc
Dated: Thursday March 25 2004 - 4:11:48 GMT

oh geez...

ok, so we are we at now ? i clicked on your url for your test site and got nothing (404)...

so what should i do ? I'll tweak those things, but do you think that will change anything ?

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday March 25 2004 - 14:11:19 GMT

Thought you had already been there, so I took it down before I left last night.

OK, just put it all back (minus the text). URL and conditions the same as before - calls to your menu code but using my copy of your _data file. Please let me know when you've looked at it. Regardless it will have to come down before I leave tonight (1630 - GMT-0700).

Not sure if the tweaking will fix anything, but it is all still wrong and needs to be corrected.