You know.. after programming my own w/ one of my developers, using dhtml
central's and various others - milonic etc etc... they were all to heavy
, bulky or something.
THe happest I was - was with my own using the 1k api from dithered's
site... but they were crashing too many browsers.. I settled on
opencube.com 's drop downs and wrote a group query and was able to
really get the look and more or less the speed I had wanted.
They are at one of my clients sites www.speedpeople.com ( You have
probably seen my fair share of questions on that site on the list :) )
As for the select items - That I know of it is true that is the one
element that resides above the page - so infite z-index
If I remember correctly - milonic's fix was to really hide it... As well
as all the other fixes I had noticed - they really hide the select's or
moved them off page and back on... (moving them on and off not too
difficult for a fix either)
jay miller
Jamie Jackson wrote:
> I had thought about that, but I think I got scared off, thinking that
> there may come a time when there's an inordinate number of wide
> characters in the string. I may decide to bite the bullet and go your
> route, though, considering I'm 99% there, anyway.
>
> Thanks,
> Jamie
>
> On Thu, 29 May 2003 12:51:33 -0700, in cf-talk you wrote:
>
>
>>I usually use a character count times an average width. For instance, I use
>>6.5 as my multiplier for 10pt verdana. Capital 'W' is 11 pixels, I believe,
>>lowercase 'l' is 2 pixels, and the rest are somewhere in between. Really
>>simple, no cost, and quite effective:
>>
>><script>
>>multiplier = 6.5;
>>buffer = 20; // extra space around the items
>>
>>window.mymenu = new Menu("title, null, null, "verdana,sans-serif");
>><cfset maxlen = 0 />
>><cfloop query="items">
>> <cfset maxlen = max(maxlen, len(name)) />
>> mymenu.addMenuItem("#name#", "location='#url#'");
>></cfloop>
>>mymenu.menuWidth = Math.round(#maxlen# * multiplier) + buffer;
>></script>
>>
>>I haven't used the menus from DWMX, i use an old version from fireworks, but
>>that shouldn't matter.
>>
>>---
>>Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer
>>AudienceCentral (formerly PIER System, Inc.)
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>voice : 360.756.8080 x12
>>fax : 360.647.5351
>>
>>www.audiencecentral.com
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Shawn Grover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:24 PM
>>>To: CF-Talk
>>>Subject: RE: Making the MX Popup Menu Javascript Dynamic
>>>
>>>
>>>The COOLjsMenu and COOLjsTree look pretty good. Decent prices too.
>>>
>>>http://javascript.cooldev.com/scripts/coolmenu/
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Jamie Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 1:14 PM
>>>To: CF-Talk
>>>Subject: Making the MX Popup Menu Javascript Dynamic
>>>
>>>
>>>I hacked up the popup javascript generated by DreamWeaver MX, so I
>>>could make the popups data-driven (see below, if interested). I only
>>>have one problem, though: mm_menu.js doesn't dynamically size the
>>>popup "cells," so if your data is longer than your static width, it's
>>>ugly.
>>>
>>>Apparently DreamWeaver MX (and, I guess, Fireworks MX) itself
>>>calculates and sums glyph widths, according to font and size (in other
>>>words, it takes into account the width difference of an Arial "i" and
>>>"M"). It seems like this could get hairy, if I were to try to
>>>calculate these myself.
>>>
>>>Does anybody know how to modify mm_menu.js to dynamically size these
>>>popup "cells," OR know of any comparable, free DHTML popup app that
>>>does dynamic sizing? (I used to use HierMenus, but they want $1500+
>>>for it now -- what a GOUGE.)
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Jamie
>>>
>>><cfoutput>
>>><script language="JavaScript">
>>><!--
>>>function mmLoadMenus() {
>>> if (window.mm_menu_1) return;
>>></cfoutput>
>>><cfset jsLoopIdx = 0>
>>><cfoutput query="getHeadlines" group="section_name">
>>><cfset jsLoopIdx = jsLoopIdx + 1>
>>> window.mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx# = new Menu("root",500,18,"Arial,
>>>Helvetica,
>>>sans-serif",12,"navy","purple","##DDDDDD","##FFCCCC","left","middl
>>>e",3,0,100
>>>0,-5,7,true,true,true,0,true,true);
>>>mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#.addMenuItem("#section_name#","location='articl
>>>es.cfm?sec
>>>tion_id=#section_id#&issue_id=#request.issue_id#'");
>>><cfoutput>
>>>mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#.addMenuItem("#headline#","location='articles.c
>>>fm?article
>>>_id=#article_id#'");
>>></cfoutput>
>>> mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#.hideOnMouseOut=true;
>>> mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#.bgColor='##555555';
>>> mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#.menuBorder=1;
>>> mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#.menuLiteBgColor='##FFFFFF';
>>> mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#.menuBorderBgColor='##777777';
>>></cfoutput>
>>>
>>><cfoutput>mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#.writeMenus();</cfoutput>
>>>} // mmLoadMenus()
>>>//-->
>>></script>
>>><script language="JavaScript" src="mm_menu.js"></script>
>>><script language="JavaScript1.2">mmLoadMenus();</script>
>>>
>>><cfset jsLoopIdx = 0>
>>><cfoutput query="getHeadlines" group="section_name">
>>><cfset jsLoopIdx = jsLoopIdx + 1>
>>><img src="images/sec_btn_top.gif" width=151 height=4 alt=""
>>>border="0"><br>
>>><a href="javascript:;"
>>>onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#,140,3,null,'bu
>>>tton#jsLoo
>>>pIdx#')"
>>>onMouseOut="MM_startTimeout();"><img #button_image#
>>>name="button#jsLoopIdx#" alt="#section_name#" border=0></a><br>
>>><img src="images/sec_btn_bot.gif" width=151 height=3 alt=""
>>>border=0><br>
>>><cfoutput>
>>></cfoutput>
>>></cfoutput>
>>>
>>>
>
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