How can I make a command send an email when clicked?
Follow these easy steps: Select the Command. Click on the Click Action. Select Open URL / Execute Script from the Action Type list. Type this in the URL/Script text box: mailto: username@domain.com.
How do I create multilevel submenus?
While in Map mode, select any command and then click Menu -> Add SubGroup. Then, simply add commands to this new subgroup.
Can I include form elements in the menus?
Yes, you can. The Caption property in DHTML Menu Builder is a very powerful parameter. All the contents in the Caption property are passed directly to the browser and interpreted as HTML contents. Knowing this you may imagine the things you can do with the Caption parameter alone!
One of the most cool things is adding form elements. Let's say that you would like to offer your users the ability to send you an email directly from the menus; or perhaps offer a search form right inside the menus. Well, you can. You just need to design the form using your preferred HTML editor and then pasting the code into the Caption property.
There're two things you must control, manually, when adding HTML code to your commands:
1) When adding HTML tags to the Caption DHTML Menu Builder will consider this information as part of the text you want to display and the menus will become very wide. To control the width of your menu select the group, click on Menu->Special Effects->Group Width and set the width manually. The best way to do this is to use the Calculate button to let DMB calculate the width of the group before you insert the HTML code; then, when you paste the code the width of the group will remain the same.
2) When using forms or some other HTML tags the resulting command may grow vertically but DMB will not be able to detect this behavior cutting the command's contents. To avoid this from happening add as many <br> tags at the end of your HTML code until DMB properly calculates the height of your command. Take a look at the form code we added to the sample provided in this page and you will see that we had to add 3 <br> tags to force the command to become taller so the contents could fit properly.How can I make menu.js generated by DHTML Menu Builder smaller?
To change the compression mode used by DHTML Menu Builder to optimize the .js files it generates click File->Project Properties->Advanced and select the Max setting under Code Optimization.
When changing the optimization mode you will have to update the loader code on your page(s).
How do I specify the target frame where I want my links to be displayed (open)?
Click on the Target Frame button next to the URL/Script textbox and select the desired frame.How can I restore the default context menu from the browser?
Select the group that is being displayed as a context menu when you right click on you page. Click on Menu->Special Effects->Group Effects and uncheck the Context Menu option. Finally, recompile your project (Tools->Compile) to apply the changes to the menus.
Is there a limit on the number of items a project can have?
Yes. DHTML Menu Builder will not allow you to cerate more than 32,767 groups and 32,767 commands. More than enough we think ;)Is there a version of the Menu Builder for Mac/Linux?
No, but you could use VMWare 3.2 (or above) under Linux to emulate Windows or VirtualPC 6 under MacOS X. Also, if you're adventurous, you could try tweaking Wine under Linux to run DHTML Menu Builder. IMPORTANT: No support will be given when DHTML Menu Builder is used under an emulator.
Are you aware of any problems using SourceSafe to save the JavaScript files generated by DHTML Menu Builder?
Yes. SourceSafe will treat the JavaScript files generated by DHTML Menu Builder as TEXT/ASCII files, but actually the files compiled by DMB are binary and if treated as TEXT/ASCII will become highly corrupted. Here's how to force SourceSafe to treat JavaScript files as binary: On the SourceSafe Tools menu, click Options, and then click File Types. In the list of binary files, add the following text: ;*.jsHow can I force all the toolbar items to have the same width (or height)?
Click Tools->Toolbars Editor->Appearance and enable the "Justify HotSpots" option.
When this option is enabled will force all the toolbar items to have the same width, for horizontally aligned toolbars and the same height for vertically aligned toolbars.
How do I call a JavaScripts function from a menu item?
You can execute a piece of simple
JavaScript code when a menu item is clicked by inserting the JavaScript code into the "URL / Script" textbox and preceding it by the JavaScript: protocol.
For example, to display a dialog box enter the following code: javascript:alert("Hello World");Why are the menus appearing behind Flash movies?
Flash movies and any kind of plugins are rendered in a special way by the browsers, making them the topmost objects in a page. Fortunately, Macromedia has a solution for Internet Explorer for Windows and all Mozilla-based browsers (except Firefox): To allow DHTML objects appear over a Flash movie just add this parameter: "WMode=Transparent" to the Flash to the Flash <object> tag. It should look like this: <param name="WMode" value="Transparent">
In order to support Mozilla-based browsers (except Firefox) and other browsers, such as Safari, you should also include the wmode parameter in the <embed> tag like this:
<embed wmode="transparent" .......></embed>
I'm not getting any rollover effects under Opera. Isn't DMB supposed to support Opera?
Version 4.5+ only supports Opera 7. Support for Opera 5 and 6 has been removed from the program. If you would like to support these versions of Opera, contact us to request a download link to a previous version of DHTML Menu Builder.How can I make the menus to show above (in front of) the form elements on my page?
This is a browser specific issue. Internet Explorer requires that you enable the "Hide Form Elements" option under the File->Project Properties->Global Settings dialog. Internet Explorer 4 and 5 will hide any dropdown boxes whenever a menu is displayed. The dropdown boxes will be made visible again when no menus are open. Internet Explorer 6 will simply display the menus above the dropdown boxes without hiding them.
Mozilla-based browsers do not require any special settings and the menus will always appear above dropdown boxes. In order to implement a workaround for Navigator 4 follow these instructions:
1) Add this code to the FormsTweak() function (by editing the compiled JS file or by creating an AddIn): if(NS&&DoFormsTweak) {var f = mFrame.document.layers.theForm; if(f) f.visibility = state;}
2) Now enclose your <form>...</form> in-between <ilayer> tags, just like this:
<ilayer name="theForm"><form>..............</form></ilayer>
When the menus are displayed my dropdown combos disappear, why?
To avoid this from happening, click on File->Project Properties->Global Settings and uncheck the "Hide Form Elements" checkbox.Firefox (or any other Mozilla-based browser) goes blank when loading web site using the menus?
This is caused by a malformed HTML document: there're missing closing tags, the HTML structure is incorrectly formatted, the BODY section is missing or the menus' loader code has been placed outside the <BODY> section of the HTML structure, etc...
Mozilla-based browsers are very sensitive to malformed HTML documents and the presence of the documents will Freeze the browser. We recommend the use of this tool. It can analyze any HTML document and generate a report which will help you determine if your HTML structure is corrupted. |
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