Derek if you want to build menu the widget by all means go ahead. I
just don't want to duplicate the effort by having us work on the same
thing. (If you do please update the ticket owner)

Br's,
Marius

On Mar 20, 5:48 pm, Derek Chen-Becker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]
>
> > wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:45 AM, Charles F. Munat <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]
> >> > <mailto:[email protected]>> 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.
> >> >     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> >> >      > <mailto:[email protected]
> >> >     <mailto:[email protected]>>> 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
> >> >     <[email protected] <mailto:
> >> [email protected]>
> >> >      >     <mailto:[email protected]
> >> >     <mailto:[email protected]>>>
> >> >      >     wrote:
> >> >      >      > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Derek Chen-Becker
> >> >      >     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> >> >     <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]
> >> >>>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
> >> >      >     <[email protected]
> >> >     <mailto:[email protected]>
> >> >     <mailto:[email protected]
> >> >     <mailto:[email protected]>>>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
>
> >> >      >      > --
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> >> >     <http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890>
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>
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