Sure, I'll bundle it as part of the widgets module along with some code do handle the nitty-gritty of emitting the full menu and enabling superfish.
Derek On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:30 AM, David Pollak <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Charles F. Munat <c...@munat.com> wrote: > >> >> It doesn't say anything about licensing on the site, but it's a jQuery >> plugin. I presume that if we can bundle jQuery, we can bundle Superfish. > > > Sounds reasonable. However, I'd prefer not to bundle it with Lift webkit, > but make it like the other widgets. > > >> >> >> Chas. >> >> Derek Chen-Becker wrote: >> > That's awesome. Are there restrictions that would prevent us from just >> > including the superfish script file (and CSS) as part of a widget? It >> > looks like it wants ULs anyways, which is what Lift already outputs. >> > From what DPP said, it should be easy to dump the entire menu as a full >> > UL (with nesting), in which case it really is just adding the >> > appropriate <script> element on the page. >> > >> > Derek >> > >> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Charles F. Munat <c...@munat.com >> > <mailto:c...@munat.com>> wrote: >> > >> > >> > You should take a look at Superfish: >> > >> > http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/ >> > >> > It's probably the best looking and slickest of the menu bars I've >> seen, >> > and it can work horizontally or vertically. It's pretty accessible >> to >> > persons with disabilities as it's basically implemented via CSS, >> with >> > just a little JQuery to spiff things up. >> > >> > If the Lift code either spit things out so that they were ready to >> be >> > used by Superfish, or at least could be configured (via >> user-specified >> > class attributes, for example) so that Superfish could just drop in, >> > that would be great. >> > >> > Might also take a look at the YUI version for those people using YUI >> > (I'm using both, though obviously not at the same time). >> > >> > Chas. >> > >> > David Pollak wrote: >> > > >> > > >> > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:50 AM, marius d. >> > <marius.dan...@gmail.com <mailto:marius.dan...@gmail.com> >> > > <mailto:marius.dan...@gmail.com >> > <mailto:marius.dan...@gmail.com>>> wrote: >> > > >> > > >> > > I'm wondering if we shouldn't provide this by the means of a >> Lift >> > > widget. Looks like a needed feature ... >> > > >> > > WDYT ? >> > > >> > > >> > > Sounds good to me. >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > Br's, >> > > Marius >> > > >> > > On Mar 19, 6:43 pm, David Pollak >> > <feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com <mailto: >> feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com> >> > > <mailto:feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com >> > <mailto:feeder.of.the.be...@gmail.com>>> >> > > wrote: >> > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Derek Chen-Becker >> > > <dchenbec...@gmail.com <mailto:dchenbec...@gmail.com> >> > <mailto:dchenbec...@gmail.com <mailto:dchenbec...@gmail.com >> >>>wrote: >> > > > >> > > > > This is something that has been asked before, but I >> > don't think >> > > there was >> > > > > anything out there. I think that this would be a really >> nice >> > > feature, >> > > > > particularly if it could leverage the existing jQuery >> stuff. >> > > IIRC, the >> > > > > built-in Menu snippet doesn't render children at all >> > unless the >> > > parent is >> > > > > the current selected page, so we would have to either >> modify >> > > that or we >> > > > > could code up a new MenuBar snippet that renders a "bar" >> > > instead of a UL >> > > > > like the current one. >> > > > >> > > > There's a way to ask for the entire menu rather than just >> the >> > > current view. >> > > > Dan O'Leary from Enthiosys did this for Innovation Games >> > Online. >> > > I've >> > > > pinged him to see if he can share some of the code. >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > > Derek >> > > > >> > > > > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:21 AM, DavidV >> > > <david.v.villa...@gmail.com >> > <mailto:david.v.villa...@gmail.com> >> > <mailto:david.v.villa...@gmail.com >> > <mailto:david.v.villa...@gmail.com>>>wrote: >> > > > >> > > > >> I'm wondering if there is a built-in way to create >> > drop-down menus >> > > > >> from a horizontal navbar using the Menu.builder method. >> > These >> > > are the >> > > > >> relevant sections of my current template: >> > > > >> > > > >> <title>My Title<lift:Menu.title /> </title> >> > > > >> <lift:StyleSheet.entryForm /> >> > > > >> <lift:StyleSheet.fancyType /> >> > > > >> <script id="jquery" src="/classpath/jquery.js" >> > type="text/ >> > > > >> javascript"/> >> > > > >> <script id="json" src="/classpath/json.js" >> > > type="text/javascript"/ >> > > > >> > > > >> <style> >> > > > >> > > > >> /* <![CDATA[ */ >> > > > >> #navbar ul { >> > > > >> margin: 0; >> > > > >> padding: 2px; >> > > > >> list-style-type: none; >> > > > >> font-weight: bold; >> > > > >> text-align: center; >> > > > >> background-color: #C3D9FF; >> > > > >> } >> > > > >> > > > >> #navbar ul li { >> > > > >> display: inline; >> > > > >> } >> > > > >> > > > >> #navbar ul li a { >> > > > >> text-decoration: none; >> > > > >> padding: .2em 1em; >> > > > >> color: #000; >> > > > >> } >> > > > >> > > > >> #navbar ul li a:hover { >> > > > >> color: #fff; >> > > > >> background-color: #000; >> > > > >> } >> > > > >> > > > >> /* ]]> */ >> > > > >> > > > >> </style> >> > > > >> </head> >> > > > >> <body> >> > > > >> > > > >> <div class="container"> >> > > > >> <div style="text-align: center"> >> > > > >> <br/> >> > > > >> <h1 class="alt"> >> > > > >> Welcome to the Genomas DNA Banking Database >> </h1> >> > > > >> </div> >> > > > >> <hr/> >> > > > >> > > > >> <div id="navbar"> >> > > > >> <ul> >> > > > >> <lift:Menu.builder /> >> > > > >> </ul> >> > > > >> </div> >> > > > >> > > > >> <div class="column span-24 last"> >> > > > >> <lift:bind name="content" /> >> > > > >> </div> >> > > > >> > > > >> I have a couple links on my navbar that have sub-menu >> > links. >> > > I have >> > > > >> constructed them in my Boot.scala file like this: >> > > > >> List(Menu(Loc("SampleLogging", List("samples", >> > "samplelogs"), >> > > > >> "Browse Sample Logging"), >> > > > >> Menu(Loc("Individuals", List("individual", >> > > "individual"), >> > > > >> "Patient Demographics")), >> > > > >> Menu(Loc("Requisition", List("requisition", >> > > "requisition"), >> > > > >> "Requisitions")), >> > > > >> Menu(Loc("Samples2", List("samples", >> "samples"), >> > > > >> "Samples")))) ::: >> > > > >> List(Menu(Loc("EditSamp", List("samples", "edit"), >> > "Edit", >> > > > >> Hidden))) ::: >> > > > >> > > > >> ...and so on. >> > > > >> > > > >> I would like to use some built-in tools to be able to >> make >> > > these sub- >> > > > >> menu items drop downs from the "parent" menu item >> without >> > > having to >> > > > >> build an entirely new complex table-based template. >> Does >> > > anyone know >> > > > >> of a way to accomplish this? >> > > > >> > > > >> Thanks, >> > > > >> David >> > > > >> > > > -- >> > > > Lift, the simply functional web >> > frameworkhttp://liftweb.net <http://liftweb.net> >> > > <http://liftweb.net> >> > > > Beginning Scalahttp://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 >> > <http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890> >> > > <http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890> >> > > > Follow me:http://twitter.com/dpp >> > > > Git some:http://github.com/dpp >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net >> > > Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 >> > > Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp >> > > Git some: http://github.com/dpp >> > > >> > > > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > >> >> >> > > > -- > Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net > Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 > Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp > Git some: http://github.com/dpp > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. 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