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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