If you know the menu name that should be highlighted (in your
controller), then you could simply do a check in your Velocity template.
#if ($menu.name == $request.getAttribute("selectedMenu"))
Where your controller sets a request-scoped attribute with the
selectedMenu's name.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Papick Garcia Taboada
> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 5:58 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [struts-menu] newbie documentation help
>
>
> Hi,
>
> well, I do know where my user is. I have a front controller in my app
> for modules and one for each module.
> I always know the exact state of my web-app.
> I have solved this problem using the tiles "controller" option.
>
> As far as I understood from your code, the displayer inspects
> the urs/
> cookies in some order to determine the
> actual menu position. I could add a statement in front of
> this checking,
> where I do search for a
> variable in the session scope. If there is such variable
> (containing a
> menu name), then it is the actual position.
> If it is empty, work as usual.
>
> This way the application could, at serverside, choose which
> menue should
> be displayed next.
> The name of variable to search for should be configurable in the menu
> config file.
>
> Please correct me if I am wrong: all I have to do is to create, in my
> special case, a modified implementation of the
> VelocityDisplayer, right?
>
> brgds,
>
> papick
>
>
> Matt Raible wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jan 12, 2004, at 2:33 AM, Papick Garcia Taboada wrote:
> >
> >> Good morning everybody,
> >>
> >> So here is my question: rather then guessing position by
> url, I would
> >> prefer to select
> >> the menue manually. In my eyes, this should override the
> url scanning
> >> procedure.
> >> Is there any way to tell struts-menue what the actual position is?
> >> Like setting a session scope
> >> variable with the menue name?
> >
> >
> > The problem is that there's no server-side mechanism to detect which
> > menu you've clicked on. The only thing you have is the URL
> itself.
> > You'd have to use JavaScript or something to submit a hidden field
> > with the menu's name if you wanted to do that. Otherwise,
> you could
> > do something in a Filter that matched URLs with menu names
> to set the
> > selected tab.
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
> >
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