Recent Questions
Q: Hi- I'm having a problem with a really wide horizontal code drop down menu. Rather than have it be so wide (due to the large number of items in it) we want it to wrap into a new row underneath the top so a visitor to the site doesn't have to use the scroll bar to scroll to the right to see the whole menu.
A: You can use multicolumn feature of Deluxe Menu, see example
http://deluxe-menu.com/multicolumn-menu-sample.html
or
Smart Scrolling
http://deluxe-menu.com/scrollable-submenus-sample.html
Q: I want to use your menu to create a javascript menu bars like effect in my application. For that I need only the images in the menu items and sub menu items(no text).
And I also want to enable disable toolbar items dynamically depending on the flow in my web application.
I could not find any help for the javascript API on your site that changes the menu dynamically.
A: Our menu is very flexible, so you'll be able to implement any menusystem you want, see for example:
http://deluxe-menu.com/data-templates/xp-style-taskbar-template-sample.html
http://deluxe-menu.com/data-templates/xp-style-1-template-sample.html
>> I could not find any help for the javascript API
Please see this:
http://deluxe-menu.com/functions-info.html
http://deluxe-menu.com/dynamic-functions-sample.html
Q: I am totally confused by this now but I have 2 data files - one for a menu bar going horizontal and one going vertical both containing the same information. But even though the content is the same, the layout is different.
You will see that on the horizontal menu,
Fleet
Financce
CPC Cards
Cashire
These are listed correctly under each other but on the vertical one, the layout differs.
A: You should write your parameters more carefully.
See, now you have
menuItems = [
["About us","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,0 , , , ],
["|||Organisation Chart","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,1, , , ],
First you have the 1-st level of menu items then at once 4-th. It isnot right. You should write the number of your Individual Style in ""also.
See, how you should write your menuItems:
menuItems = [
["About us","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"0" , , , ],
["|Organisation Chart","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"","1", , , ],
["|Who's Who?","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/Who's Who?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["|Contact Details","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["How To?","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"0", , , ],
["|Fleet","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["||Hire a Vehicle","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/Hire a Vehicle?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["||Report an Accident","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/How to report an accident?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["||Report a Breakdown","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/Report a Breakdown?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["|Finance Admin","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["||Capitalise an Asset","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/capitalise an asset?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["||Pay your Personal Calls on Mobile Phone Bills","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/Pay your personal calls on mobile phone bills?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["||Request a credit to be raised","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["|CPC Cards","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["||Request a new CPC user","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/request a new cpc user?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["||Report a Lost/Stolen CPC Card","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/Report a lost or stolen card?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["||Enquire about a general CPC query","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/enquire about a general cpc query?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["|Cashier","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["||Request a Cashbook Manual Payment","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/Request a Cashbook Manual Payment?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["||Request a Cashbook BACS Payment","/k6intranet2.nsf/PageTitleLookup/Request a cashbook Bacs payment?OpenDocument", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["Useful Information","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"0" , , , ],
["|Month End Timetable 2007","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["|Month End Year to Date Results","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["||Coming Soon...","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["Finance Focus","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"0" , , , ],
["|Coming Soon...","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"1", , , ],
["Coming Soon","javascript:alert('Coming Soon')", , , ,"" ,"0", , , ],
];
dm_init();
Q: I have already tried this exact same method, using and alternate "itemBackColor" and this is not what I needed. As you can see in your example putting in an item back color only give you a different bg color on the item itself, but the BG of the menu around it remains the same. In your example the lighter bg color of my menu is surrounding the item bg color making this look more like a mistake and poor design.
It do use the item bg color for the rollover in my menu, as you can see, but implementing this does not give me what I need. I need the BG color behind this item to be completely flush with the sides of the menu.
I had already checked the menu system thoroughly before contacting you and I was well aware of the option.. but as you can see this is not the solution. It is very important to me that this looks perfect, and what I need is not built into this menu by default.. I need another solution.
A: You should set the following parameter:
var itemSpacing=0;
You can also try to paste separators between items.