Ramzi,
This is possible, but tricky with the current code.
We're in the process of upgrading Lift to work with Scala 2.7.2 Once the
switch-over happens (sometime this week), I'll code up some stuff in SiteMap
to give you a complete menu.
Thanks,
David
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Ramzi BEN YAHIA
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> The actual behavior of nested menus is that kids are only returned
> when their parent is selected. I'd like to have all kids returned.
>
> If my guess is right the code that's controlling this is in sitemap.Menu:
>
> //code
> override def buildUpperLines(pathAt: HasKids, actual: Menu, populate:
> List[MenuItem]): List[MenuItem]
> = {
> val kids: List[MenuItem] =
> _parent.toList.flatMap(_.kids.toList.flatMap(m => m.loc.buildItem(if
> (m == this) populate else Nil, m == actual, m == pathAt)))
> _parent.toList.flatMap(p => p.buildUpperLines(p, actual, kids))
> }
> //code
>
> it calls buildItem on all the other menus passing an empty List
> instead of their actual kids.
> So I've tried to override this method(even though it won't work
> because _parent is a private variable and I don't know if lift.sitemap
> package is sealed) and I got this compile error:
>
> class DropMenu needs to be abstract, since type _$1 in class Menu with
> bounds >: Nothing <: Any is not defined
>
> I used to have this error gone away after a mvn clean compile on some
> parts of my current project, but it didn't in this case.
>
> Is there a simpler way for overriding this behaviour?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ramzi
>
> >
>
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