Forum OpenACS Q&A: Turning on the pull-down menus?

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1: Turning on the pull-down menus?
Posted by Michael Feldstein on 05/08/00 03:36 PM
We're trying to experiment with the pull-down menus but we can't seem
to get them to turn on. We have MenuOnAdminPagesP=1 set, for example,
but we're not seeing them on the admin pages.

What are we missing?

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2: Response to Turning on the pull-down menus? (response to 1)
Posted by Michael Feldstein on 05/09/00 02:42 PM
OK, it looks like the pull-down menus haven't been ported yet.
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3: Response to Turning on the pull-down menus? (response to 1)
Posted by Ben Adida on 05/09/00 03:19 PM
no no, I've ported this stuff. The code *seems* to work, but there
seem to be some weird Javascript issues.
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4: Response to Turning on the pull-down menus? (response to 1)
Posted by Michael Feldstein on 05/09/00 07:36 PM
Is the Javascript problem what is preventing it from showing up at all? We can't figure out how to turn the damned thing on.
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5: Response to Turning on the pull-down menus? (response to 1)
Posted by David Richards on 06/22/00 02:32 PM
I've messed with the silly thing for about a week now.  (OK, just from time to time.) I know that the javascript is not creating the top-most navbar items before assigning values to them.  That's where it blows.

I've been greping the heck out of everything.  I've looked at the pull-down-menus source from pages that work on photo.net and arsdigita.com (i.e. I'm viewing the source of a page with pull-down-menus).  I decided that hasn't been fruitful yet.  I've read all the available documentation (there isn't much of it).  I've done everything I can find in the admin pages.  If there's nobody out here in the discussion boards that has gotten this to work, then I guess I'm going to have to start wading through the ../tcl libraries for help.  It seems like there's the link to the pull-down-menus from ad_header.  (Maybe it isn't passing the right info?  I don't know.)  Or, I've got to try to hack through MakeNavLayers in pdm.js.

Has anyone already got it working?  Can anyone save me the effort?

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6: Response to Turning on the pull-down menus? (response to 1)
Posted by Don Baccus on 06/22/00 04:10 PM
You might compare with the version in ACS 3.3 - it's entirely possible that the code released in ACS 3.2 didn't work.
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7: Response to Turning on the pull-down menus? (response to 1)
Posted by Aurelius Prochazka on 06/22/00 04:40 PM
Hi,

From http://arsdigita.com/doc/pull-down-menus uner known bugs and limitations, there is the line "If a top-level menu item has no children, a javascript error will occur on mouse-over."

Its a bug that I know about but haven't had time to fix.

Aure

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8: Response to Turning on the pull-down menus? (response to 1)
Posted by Michael Feldstein on 06/23/00 06:03 PM
I'm not sure, but this Aure's answer doesn't seem to solve the problem. If the only issue were top-level menus w/o children then the admin menus that come bundled with the ACS installation should still work. But they don't.