Suggestion: menu specific delays

Poster: CheckeredFlag
Dated: Monday August 15 2005 - 22:06:22 BST

Submenus tend to direct users to navigate to deeper levels instead of following the links on the parent menu. In certain cases, I don't want newbies browsing to deep levels since they would become confused.

So, I would like to "hide" certain submenus, causing new users to believe they have navigated to the deepest level and select a link from there. But for power users, I would like to display these hidden menus after a long delay (e.g. 3-5 seconds) - an easter egg of sorts.l

This could be easily implemented if a menu-specific delay could be defined. For example:



I am aware of the _menuOpenDelay global property, but this affects ALL menus; I want special cases to have different values.

Thoughts? Is this possible already by some means I'm not aware of?

Marco

Poster: Andy
Dated: Monday August 15 2005 - 22:46:20 BST

Just added a new property for version 5.729 due out soon.

Called opendelay, it allows you to specify an opening delay for a specific menu.

I'll get the Pre Release posted tomorrow.

Cheers,
Andy

Poster: CheckeredFlag
Dated: Monday August 15 2005 - 23:04:15 BST

Wow, that's great! Thanks for the fast response!

Marco

Poster: CheckeredFlag
Dated: Monday August 15 2005 - 23:13:20 BST



I forgot to mention that this should be available as a menu item property instead of (or in addition to) a menu property. This can allow the same menu to open with different delays depending on where it is accessed.

For example, a newbie menu might have a long delay for a "hidden menu", where an advanced menu opening the same submenu would have a normal delay.

Marco

Poster: Andy
Dated: Tuesday August 16 2005 - 11:04:43 BST

opendelay has also been added to menu items.

hope this helps,
Andy