OK, great, thanks. Can you tell me more about the cookie? The contents, etc?
Robert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Raible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 4:28 AM
Subject: Re: [struts-menu] Setting menu tab at runtime
>
> On Oct 6, 2004, at 4:05 PM, Robert Smith wrote:
>
> > The
> > MenuComponent parentMenu = repository.getMenu(parent);
> >
> > caused it. I could see the menus in the defaultRepository, but
> > creating a
> > new one and setting the displayers didn't populate them for some
> > reason.
>
> The code you have above isn't in the code listed below. Are you
> referring to the code from the example JSP? If you do your processing
> in a servlet or filter - you shouldn't need to do anything in the JSP -
> just grab the repository and render the menus. Since you're setting it
> as a session variable named "repository" - you'll have to specify
> repository="repository" as part of the useMenuDisplayer tag.
>
> > On
> > an unrelated note, what could cause submenus from being displayed. I
> > have a
> > whole bunch of pages that forward to a "query results" page which
> > doesn't
> > get listed in menu-config.xml. How do I make sure the parent tab is
> > still
> > highlighted and the submenus get displayed?
>
> I believe the "highlight this tab" functionality is currently made
> possible by URL matching and then by cookies. You should be able to
> set a cookie in your code to highlight the appropriate tab in a query
> results page.
>
> Matt
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Matt Raible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 5:50 PM
> > Subject: Re: [struts-menu] Setting menu tab at runtime
> >
> >
> >> Where do you get the NPE at?
> >>
> >> On Oct 6, 2004, at 3:03 PM, Robert Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>> That code gave me a null pointer exception. This is what I had to do:
> >>>
> >>> MenuRepository defaultRepository =
> >>> (MenuRepository)getServletContext().getAttribute(MenuRepository.MENU_
> >>> RE
> >>> POSIT
> >>> ORY_KEY);
> >>> MenuComponent defaultmc = defaultRepository.getMenu("Home"); //Home
> >>> is
> >>> set
> >>> in my menu-config.xml
> >>> defaultmc.setLocation("\myhomepage.html"); //Gets changed here
> >>> defaultRepository.addMenu(defaultmc);
> >>> session.setAttribute("repository", defaultmc);
> >>>
> >>> Robert
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Matt Raible" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 3:19 PM
> >>> Subject: Re: [struts-menu] Setting menu tab at runtime
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Oct 6, 2004, at 11:53 AM, Robert Smith wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hello,
> >>>>> I've been using the struts menu for a few weeks now, and I like
> >>>>> what I
> >>>>> see. I have a few questions if anyone can help:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 1. I have about 5 main tabs with a few dozen submenus (using the
> >>>>> nice
> >>>>> looking tabs menu). I need to add a "Home" menu to be the first
> >>>>> main
> >>>>> tabbed
> >>>>> menu item, but the location of it needs to be set upon the user
> >>>>> logging in
> >>>>> (instead of being pulled from the menu-config.xml). In my login
> >>>>> code
> >>>>> (a
> >>>>> servlet), how would I do this?
> >>>>
> >>>> You can grab the repository from the servlet context, modify it and
> >>>> stuff it into the user's session. This howto may help:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://demo.raibledesigns.com/struts-menu/dynamicMenu.jsp
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 2. I'm using the TabbedMenuDisplayer, and changing tabs is slow.
> >>>>> Has
> >>>>> anyone
> >>>>> experienced this?
> >>>>
> >>>> What do you mean - the JavaScript/CSS seems slow - or the pages are
> >>>> slow to load?
> >>>>
> >>>> Matt
> >>>>
> >>>>
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