Yes, I would like the expandAll behavior to work for groups and for non- root siteMaps. Here's a specific use-case. The MenuWidget in the lift-widgets package just passes everything through as
def render : NodeSeq = { head ++ <lift:Menu.builder expandAll="true" top:class= {style.toString} /> } So, even though the MenuWidget object has factory methods for using a non-root siteMap, only the root siteMap is ever used. That's because Menu.builder calls a private function renderWhat, like so: val toRender = renderWhat(expandAll) which iterates through the root siteMap. There is no way, really, to subclass that to use a different siteMap. The problem with the Menu.group snippet is that it just works off the named group in the root siteMap, creating a parent node, but not the kids. It would be nice to use MenuWidget, or some subclass, to create a superfish-style nav-bar or horizontal menu for groups or non-root siteMaps just as easily as for the entire root siteMap. Glenn... On Jun 8, 3:51 pm, Joe Wass <j...@folktunefinder.com> wrote: > What I really wanted was a menu group. Doing things in groups has > solved my particular question. > > Glenn, can you not just use groups? Do you need the hierarchal > behaviour of nested menus? > > Joe > > On Jun 8, 10:24 pm, glenn <gl...@exmbly.com> wrote: > > > I have a similar request: namely, being able to apply expandAll="true" > > attribute > > not just to <lift:Menu.builder.../> > > > but to <lift:Menu.group name="mygroup"/> and <lift:Menu.item > > name="myMenu"/>, or, as Joe requests below, > > > to any siteMap that is not the root siteMap. > > > Glenn... > > > On Jun 8, 2:06 pm, Joe Wass <j...@folktunefinder.com> wrote: > > > > Sorry for yet another menu question. I have scoured this list first, I > > > promise! > > > > I'm trying to do something I think is quite simple: > > > > Two [or any nuumber of] menus (with children). Two different > > > templates. One menu and children shows up on one template, one shows > > > up on another. They are each nested menus (i.e. I have two Menus, each > > > with child menu items). You can directly go to any page you want, but > > > only certain Menu items show up on certain templates. > > > > I had thought I could put a guard (the last argument of the Loc) to > > > only show a menu when the request string contains part of the path, > > > but of course, that prevents you from navigating there in the first > > > place so that's out. > > > > I've seen this post > > > :http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/browse_thread/thread/dbdf6a17b... > > > > but it doesn't quite do what I want: I want to be able to show a whole > > > Menu at a time, not have to list each individual item in the template. > > > I'd like to do something like this: > > > > <lift:Menu.builder menuName="menu_name"/> > > > > Any ideas? I'll accept a hack, I'm short on time! > > > > Bonus marks: how do you set a menu to be expanded by default (without > > > having to be on the root node's page)? I saw `expandAll="true"` > > > somewhere, but that doesn't do anything... > > > > Thanks! > > > > Joe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---