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| message from John Gaver on 17 Jul 2004 |
PVII sells their Menu Magic line.
PVII free extensions are included with the following tutorials:
simple PVII menus:
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/auto_hide/index.htm
PVII positioned popup menus:
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/snapmenus/index.htm
With those tutorials and the free extensions that come with them, you can
build a very respectable menu. Neither of these tutorials tell you how to
use the extensions to build multi-layer menus, but with very little
tweaking, you can even do that. They are both designed to be horizontal, but
they can both be easily turned into vertical menus.
John Gaver
Action America
(forget everything to contact me direct)
Microsoft: (n) Job security for IT consultants.
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| judas2 replied to John Gaver on 17 Jul 2004 |
Thx a lot John Gaver
I have to spend much more time on PVII site. I thought everything was for sell. Now I'm gonna study your tutorials.
Thx very much indeed
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| John Gaver replied to judas2 on 17 Jul 2004 |
Glad to help.
BTW, while looking at the tutorials, you should be aware that it is possible
to do more than a single layer dropdown. The key is the following code
generated by PVII (I picked submenu 3 for the example, but it can be any
submenu):
onMouseOver="P7_autoLayers(0,'p7simonsubs3')
Notice the "0", in the above behavior call. Then change it to something like
this, for a second layer of submenus:
onMouseOver="P7_autoLayers(2,'p7simonsubs3','p7simonsubs3a')
In the above example, you would have to create "p7simonsubs3a", yourself.
You have to create a style for each sub-submenu level on each submenu (i.e.
If submenu 3 has 2 sub-submenus and submenu 4 has 3 sub-submenus, then you
will have to create styles 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b and 4c). You will also notice that
you include both the submenu and sub-submenu in the P7_autoLayers behavior.
You will also discover that placing hide and autohide behaviors becomes
somewhat more complicated. But once you get over the above hurdle, the rest
should fall into place, with a little work.
Also note that in the PVII examples, the main menu items are images, that
take time to load. If you are trying to save load time, they can just as
easily be made into text rollovers, using the "block" setting, in the
rollover style and by playing with border colors, you can make the text
buttons look like rectangular graphic buttons (see how I implemented both
features at http://www.megafolia.com .
Well, I gotta get ready to go the HAAUG (Houston Area Apple User Group)
meeting, so I won't be around for a while.
Enjoy!
John Gaver
Action America
(forget everything to contact me direct)
Microsoft: (n) Job security for IT consultants.
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