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Taken From The Forum: Help & Support for DHTML Menu Version 5+
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Last Updated: Saturday July 14 2012 - 06:07:34
Search form in menu hides dropdown select box
Poster: e-spike
Dated: Thursday August 25 2005 - 18:23:24 BST
I know it is possible to use a search form box within the menu, and this works fine in your demonstrations on your homepage etc. My site needs to use this feature but with a drop down box, not a text field. How can i stop the menu from hiding everytime something is selected from the drop down box?
thanks
Rich
Poster: e-spike
Dated: Thursday August 25 2005 - 22:23:43 BST
http://newcom.serran.net login sserra / leandra then search on the milonic menu
Poster: e-spike
Dated: Monday August 29 2005 - 17:16:45 BST
Quote:
404
Sorry someone else was working on that box and somehow the connection string was overwritten,
this situation has now been fixed, please take another look
Rich
Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Monday August 29 2005 - 20:51:12 BST
Hi Rich,
I just went to the URL and tried to log in. The provided username/password didn't work.
I know that you didn't ask for site critiques, but I gotta say that, IMHO, I found the javascript that the login page uses to close opener windows to be a little... um... off putting. The worst part is that, because it replaces the opener with itself, hence re-running the script, it can work it's way back to the original opener. In IE, instead of opening in a new (fourth) window to the login page, which is what I wanted, it closed two of my browser windows and replaced the original starting window with itself. As a result, I completely lost my starting point (in this case, on the forums). It does the same thing with the tabs in Opera 8; closed all of them back to my starting tab, then replaced the content in that tab with itself. Firefox resists a litte, closing only partway back to the original. For people like me, who prefer to open a link in a new window or tab (shift-click), that behavior isn't ideal. I imagine it could irritate many of your users. Just my opinion, FWIW.
Cheers,
Kevin
Poster: e-spike
Dated: Monday August 29 2005 - 20:55:42 BST
please try#
username:sserra
password:tester
I have fixed the js issue - i see what you mean and i have a workaround in development, thanks for the heads up
Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Monday August 29 2005 - 21:16:17 BST
Hi Rich,
As a quick solution, try setting keepalive=1; in your "search" menu. If that doesn't work the way you want, it may take something more involved.
Thanks for commenting the opener closing code out. Might be a temporary thing I know, but it made my trip easier!
Cheers,
Kevin
Poster: e-spike
Dated: Monday August 29 2005 - 21:24:36 BST
i'm assuming the keepalive=1 is immediatly after the menu decleration (the bit which reads:
with(milonic=new menuname("search"){
keepalive=1
margin=2
...
) is this correct?
Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Monday August 29 2005 - 21:31:06 BST
e-spike wrote:
i'm assuming the keepalive=1 is immediatly after the menu decleration (the bit which reads:
with(milonic=new menuname("search"){
keepalive=1
margin=2
...
) is this correct?
with(milonic=new menuname("search"){
keepalive=1
margin=2
...
) is this correct?
Yep, that spot will work. Menu properties can actually be defined anywhere between the opening
Code:
with(milonic=new menuname("search")){
and the firstCode:
aI("text= ... ;");
The order in which they are defined does not matter.
Cheers,
Kevin
Poster: kevin3442
Dated: Monday August 29 2005 - 21:51:25 BST
e-spike wrote:
Now how do i close a named menu?
Hmmmm... looks like I'm a step behind!
Here are some functions that I have used to manipulate menu visibility programatically:
Code:
function mm_closeMenuByName(menuName) // , alwaysVisState = optional. 1=on, 0=off
{
var menuNum = getMenuByName(menuName);
if (arguments.length > 1) _m[menuNum][7] = arguments[1];
menuDisplay(menuNum, 0);
}
{
var menuNum = getMenuByName(menuName);
if (arguments.length > 1) _m[menuNum][7] = arguments[1];
menuDisplay(menuNum, 0);
}
You'll note that the function accepts an optional second parameter, which can be used to manipulate a menu's alwaysvisible property; 0 or false to disable alwaysvisible, 1 or true to enable. Of course, if you like, you can remove that portion of the function.
Also, I'm sure you can figure it out from the above, but I use the following to open a menu by name:
Code:
function mm_openMenuByName(menuName) // , alwaysVisState = optional. 1=on, 0=off
{
var menuNum = getMenuByName(menuName);
if (arguments.length > 1) _m[menuNum][7] = arguments[1];
menuDisplay(menuNum, 1);
}
{
var menuNum = getMenuByName(menuName);
if (arguments.length > 1) _m[menuNum][7] = arguments[1];
menuDisplay(menuNum, 1);
}
Same thing for the optional alwaysvisible flag (handy for opening a menu and leaving it open, which could be a viable alternative in your specific form/menu case).
I have also combined these two into a general "toggle" function, as shown below:
Code:
function mm_toggleMenuByName(menuName, menuState) // , alwaysVisState = optional. 1=on, 0=off
{
var menuNum = getMenuByName(menuName);
if (arguments.length > 2) _m[menuNum][7] = arguments[2];
menuDisplay(menuNum, menuState);
}
{
var menuNum = getMenuByName(menuName);
if (arguments.length > 2) _m[menuNum][7] = arguments[2];
menuDisplay(menuNum, menuState);
}
For the menuState parameter, pass 0 to close the named menu or 1 to open it. Again, the function has an optional third parameter to set the alwaysvisible flag. Sometimes I like this toggle function better; other times I prefer the two separete functions.
Hope those helps... cheers,
Kevin
