You know.. after programming my own w/ one of my developers, using dhtml central's and various others - milonic etc etc... they were all to heavy , bulky or something.
THe happest I was - was with my own using the 1k api from dithered's site... but they were crashing too many browsers.. I settled on opencube.com 's drop downs and wrote a group query and was able to really get the look and more or less the speed I had wanted. They are at one of my clients sites www.speedpeople.com ( You have probably seen my fair share of questions on that site on the list :) ) As for the select items - That I know of it is true that is the one element that resides above the page - so infite z-index If I remember correctly - milonic's fix was to really hide it... As well as all the other fixes I had noticed - they really hide the select's or moved them off page and back on... (moving them on and off not too difficult for a fix either) jay miller Jamie Jackson wrote: > I had thought about that, but I think I got scared off, thinking that > there may come a time when there's an inordinate number of wide > characters in the string. I may decide to bite the bullet and go your > route, though, considering I'm 99% there, anyway. > > Thanks, > Jamie > > On Thu, 29 May 2003 12:51:33 -0700, in cf-talk you wrote: > > >>I usually use a character count times an average width. For instance, I use >>6.5 as my multiplier for 10pt verdana. Capital 'W' is 11 pixels, I believe, >>lowercase 'l' is 2 pixels, and the rest are somewhere in between. Really >>simple, no cost, and quite effective: >> >><script> >>multiplier = 6.5; >>buffer = 20; // extra space around the items >> >>window.mymenu = new Menu("title, null, null, "verdana,sans-serif"); >><cfset maxlen = 0 /> >><cfloop query="items"> >> <cfset maxlen = max(maxlen, len(name)) /> >> mymenu.addMenuItem("#name#", "location='#url#'"); >></cfloop> >>mymenu.menuWidth = Math.round(#maxlen# * multiplier) + buffer; >></script> >> >>I haven't used the menus from DWMX, i use an old version from fireworks, but >>that shouldn't matter. >> >>--- >>Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer >>AudienceCentral (formerly PIER System, Inc.) >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>voice : 360.756.8080 x12 >>fax : 360.647.5351 >> >>www.audiencecentral.com >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Shawn Grover [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:24 PM >>>To: CF-Talk >>>Subject: RE: Making the MX Popup Menu Javascript Dynamic >>> >>> >>>The COOLjsMenu and COOLjsTree look pretty good. Decent prices too. >>> >>>http://javascript.cooldev.com/scripts/coolmenu/ >>> >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: Jamie Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 1:14 PM >>>To: CF-Talk >>>Subject: Making the MX Popup Menu Javascript Dynamic >>> >>> >>>I hacked up the popup javascript generated by DreamWeaver MX, so I >>>could make the popups data-driven (see below, if interested). I only >>>have one problem, though: mm_menu.js doesn't dynamically size the >>>popup "cells," so if your data is longer than your static width, it's >>>ugly. >>> >>>Apparently DreamWeaver MX (and, I guess, Fireworks MX) itself >>>calculates and sums glyph widths, according to font and size (in other >>>words, it takes into account the width difference of an Arial "i" and >>>"M"). It seems like this could get hairy, if I were to try to >>>calculate these myself. >>> >>>Does anybody know how to modify mm_menu.js to dynamically size these >>>popup "cells," OR know of any comparable, free DHTML popup app that >>>does dynamic sizing? (I used to use HierMenus, but they want $1500+ >>>for it now -- what a GOUGE.) >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Jamie >>> >>><cfoutput> >>><script language="JavaScript"> >>><!-- >>>function mmLoadMenus() { >>> if (window.mm_menu_1) return; >>></cfoutput> >>><cfset jsLoopIdx = 0> >>><cfoutput query="getHeadlines" group="section_name"> >>><cfset jsLoopIdx = jsLoopIdx + 1> >>> window.mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx# = new Menu("root",500,18,"Arial, >>>Helvetica, >>>sans-serif",12,"navy","purple","##DDDDDD","##FFCCCC","left","middl >>>e",3,0,100 >>>0,-5,7,true,true,true,0,true,true); >>>mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#.addMenuItem("#section_name#","location='articl >>>es.cfm?sec >>>tion_id=#section_id#&issue_id=#request.issue_id#'"); >>><cfoutput> >>>mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#.addMenuItem("#headline#","location='articles.c >>>fm?article >>>_id=#article_id#'"); >>></cfoutput> >>> mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#.hideOnMouseOut=true; >>> mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#.bgColor='##555555'; >>> mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#.menuBorder=1; >>> mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#.menuLiteBgColor='##FFFFFF'; >>> mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#.menuBorderBgColor='##777777'; >>></cfoutput> >>> >>><cfoutput>mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#.writeMenus();</cfoutput> >>>} // mmLoadMenus() >>>//--> >>></script> >>><script language="JavaScript" src="mm_menu.js"></script> >>><script language="JavaScript1.2">mmLoadMenus();</script> >>> >>><cfset jsLoopIdx = 0> >>><cfoutput query="getHeadlines" group="section_name"> >>><cfset jsLoopIdx = jsLoopIdx + 1> >>><img src="images/sec_btn_top.gif" width=151 height=4 alt="" >>>border="0"><br> >>><a href="javascript:;" >>>onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_#jsLoopIdx#,140,3,null,'bu >>>tton#jsLoo >>>pIdx#')" >>>onMouseOut="MM_startTimeout();"><img #button_image# >>>name="button#jsLoopIdx#" alt="#section_name#" border=0></a><br> >>><img src="images/sec_btn_bot.gif" width=151 height=3 alt="" >>>border=0><br> >>><cfoutput> >>></cfoutput> >>></cfoutput> >>> >>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4