Pop Up window

I'm working on this site http://focashairsalon.com/test1.html and on the gallery button I want a pop-window that is smaller then the main page so they are not taken off the page and can close when done. How would I do that?  thanks

Answer:



Hi,
you can do it via simple javascript code,

the menu button code:
<div><a href='javascript:new_window();'>Gallery</a></div>

The javascript code:
<script>
function new_window(){
  window.open('http://www.pageresource.com/jscript/jex5.htm','mywindow','width=400,height=200')
  }
</script>

http://www.pageresource.com/jscript/jwinopen.htm

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Does search spider simulators see your menus?

I am very interested in buying your product, but how can I be sure that search engines can really see your menus?  I have used search engine spider simulators to look at some of the sites listed at http://f-source.com/support/menu-users.htm, but the search engine simulators do not appear to see the menu items.  This is very important to me.  Do you have a list of search engine simulators web sites that can index your menus?

Thank you,
Dave Kinskey



Answer:



Hi Dave,
some webmasters use XML instead of HTML links,
XML is not SEO friendly!

For instance, in our list:
http://www.toontrack.com/ - XML
http://www.quantunet.com/ - XML
https://timelessinvitations.com/ - HTML
http://www.vals-plumbing.com/ - XML
http://www.kelvinbaggs.com/ - HTML


I recommend to install Lynx browser, to view how search spiders index websites.
Or use some lynx browser simulator, like this:
http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Width of the buttons

Hello,
Can I make the width of the buttons smaller so that they fit tighter around the text. It seems that there is a default space of about 1/2 inch on either side of the text within the button. Thank you.



Answer:


Yes,
use parameter "_mainButWidthExt", by default it's _mainButWidthExt:18.

http://f-source.com/web-menu/multicolor/#menu_config

Dmitry
f-source.com

Two lines text formatting

Hello,

I would like to make some of the titles for my buttons two lines, normally I would use < br > to do this, but Dreamweaver isn't allowing me to. What can I do to fix this?

Thank You!

Karen Ficke
www.neatsolutions.com



Answer:



Karen,
use encoded <br/> - &lt;br/&gt;

For example: < div><a href='http://...'>Line1 &lt;br/&gt; Line 2</a>< /div>


Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Two menus on one page

Is it possible to have two menus on the same page, that are independant of one another ... i.e., deploy one menu as a top nav bar (at the top of the page) and then use another one as a mid page nav bar located midway down the page (each offering different menu selections)?



Answer:



It is possible with one horizontal menu and one vertical menu on the same page.

If you need more than one horizontal menu, I recommend to keep each
additional menu inside iframe.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Problem after upgrading DW to 8.0.2

Every thing was going great, then I upgraded to DW 8.0.2 to fix a FTP issue. Now when I open a page in DW with a f-source flash menu I get a warning that the page contains Object tags that are improper. DW then adds the following code to my page: <script src='Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js' type='text/javascript'></script>

Now the navigation menu is back to default. See http://ops.ntinet.com/template.htm for the page with issues. See http://ops.ntinet.com for a page that displays correct. Please advise...

Chris



Answer:



Chris,
your flash menu code was converted.
The Dreamweaver update 8.0.2 contains Active Content Converter which
is not compatible with our menu.

Disable the active content converter:
http://f-source.com/before_insert/

Replace the code inside of the DIV id="f-source-menu" with original
flash menu code.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Flash over flash

I am using the Vista Drop Down Menu and have a flash movie loading under it - however the submenus appear to be showing up behind the flash movie - please see my link below. Is there a way to fix this?

When you rollover Special Services from the top menu - there should be 4 items in the sub-menu. If I delete the flash movie - I see the submenu

Many thanks!


http://www.schmidtdesigngroup.com/law-enforcement/



Answer:



Hi,
Add wmode="transparent" to an OTHER flash item,
see example here: http://f-source.com/faq/ ==> - Drop down menu seem
to be dropping underneath another flash movie. How to fix it?

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Macromedia Style Menu search feature

Dear f-source,

I woudering if I can customize the Macromedia Style Menu. I like it style, but I have no use with the search engine feature. Could I possibly take the search feature out and leave the rest?
However... how does the search feature works once implemented in my website? People can search every word from my website?
Although I have no use for now, I would appreciate if you could provide more information about the search feature provided in the Macromedia Style Menu.

Thank you with regards.



Answer:



Hi,
use parameter "_showSearchField(Yes/No)"

If you site is indexed by Google, for example, you can use google to
find any word on your site, (href="http://www.google.com/search?sitesearch=yourDomainName%26q=")
read more:
http://f-source.com/faq/ - How to use the search feature?

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

All page menus from one file

One of the reasons that I purchased all your menus was so that my website would be search engine friendly. Now that Yahoo and Google can spider regular flash menus, I am wondering if I can use your menus but with a single file as the menu control rather than having to update every page on my site when I make a menu change.
Is that possible?
Thanks,
Ed


Answer:



Hi Ed,
yes, it's possible, using Library item, Server Side Include, or PHP:
http://f-source.com/flash-menus/multipage-control/

The easiest way is XML, but it's not SEO friendly: http://f-source.com/faq/xml/
However you can use both HTML links (for search engines) and XML (for real navigation settings).

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Can I change the colors of Orange drop down menu?

Love the drop downs but need to know if I can change the color from Orange to say...burnt Orange...that matches my corporate colors...


Answer:


Of course,
try the free version of the menu.

Use parameter "_menuColor" and these recommendations:
http://f-source.com/faq/color-selection/

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Can I link to a flash frame instead of href?

Hi,
I want to load the menu into an existing swf file. The links on the menu should allow the user to navigate to a frame located in the parent swf file instead of going to an http:// address.
Is this possible?



Answer:



No,
it's impossible. Our menus can work only within HTML

I recommend to put the menu over the SWF file, using z-index.
<div style="position:absolute; top:115px; left:0px; z-index:999;">
<div id="f-source-menu" style="position:relative;">
........
</div>
</div>

You can make anchors in your flash movie:
http://noscope.com/journal/2004/04/named-anchors

The menu will link to different html pages with the same SWF, but with
different flash anchors.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Flash object size

Hello, I'm having a vista drop down menu issue and I'm Using Dreamweaver

I've inserted the menu, it shows up in dreamweaver as a grey box, however
tall I make the box is how many sub menu items that will show up on the web.

I don't want to make the grey area really big in dreamweaver just to see the
menu items, because then on the web page, any pics or text just below the
menu will not show up on the page, they will be much further down.
Thanks




Answer:




Hi Mark,
there is no need to make the flash object big.

The size of the flash object must be equal to the main menu bar.

Out script will change the height of the flash object dynamically to
fit the submenus.

Don't forget to disable the active content converter:
http://f-source.com/before_insert/

Test in browser, press F12 to see how it works.

If you will have some problem, publish your test page and send me the link,
I will help.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Problem adding nofollow tag

I am trying to optimize my site for search engines and want to control the flow of Pagerank. I tried to add the rel='nofollow' to a link in the menu but it makes the button disappear. I also tried putting single quotes around the nofollow tag but that did not work either. I bought the Metallic Menu last week.

Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Will Horan




Answer:



Will,
the rel="nofollow" isn't compatible with our menu.

I recommend to keep your navigation in XML file: http://f-source.com/faq/xml/
The xml file won't be indexed by search engines.

Leave in the DIV id="menu" only those links which must be indexed.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Menu in frameset

I'm using your drop down
menus in a site I'm designing. Well they work great except when I try to put
them in a frame. I'm using a frameset in dreamweaver CS3 and whatever I name
the target frame I want them to display in it doesn't work. The buttons
don't function then and when you click on them nothing happens. The links
don't even work. I'm a pretty moderate user of dreamweaver and I haven't had
this problem before. I've tried multiple menus and the same thing happens.
If I target a _blank, or _parent frame the links will work, but it will open
up a blank page. So anyways the main thing I need help from you from is
getting my links to work with your menu to open in a designated frame,
because the target = "frame" doesn't appear to work with your menu. Of
course it works with common rollovers, buttons, etc. Just not with the drop
menu.

Thanks,
Mike Edmonds

Answer:

Mike,
you need to use target="{Frame-name}" with each button,

Example:

<div><a href='http://f-source.com' target='secondFrame'>Button1</a></div>


<frameset >
<frame name='menuFrame' src=''>
<frame name='secondFrame' src=''>
</frameset>

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Google Chrome Issues

I've used your Vista drop-down menu for a few months now, and am pretty happy.
I downloaded the new Google Chrome browser today and checked out my website. The menu works only partially. The main buttons don't display the proper text, but the 'button 1' default string. Also the background area renders in the wrong color and overlays the first row of drop down buttons.

When do you expect to test your code with Google Chrome and issue any fixes if such are needed?

You can see the problem by using Google Chrome and navigating to my website (http://www.allklier.com).


www.allklier.com



Answer:



Hi,
we've tested it and made a fix.
Use updated script "ActiveContentDropDown.js" (attached).
(http://f-source.com/scripts/ActiveContentDropDown.js)

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Menu Causes Layout Problems

Dear Sir/Madame,

I recently purchased Adobe Style Menu from F-Source. I'd like to put it on top of a page, and the whole layout needs to be 100% wide and 100% high.

The moment I add the menu to my layout though, it generates quite a bit of empty space on the bottom part of the page, along with a scroller bar. I tried a number of ways to avoid that, unfortunately, without much luck. Any ideas to solve the problem will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much in advance,
Val Nanovsky

Sample test pages where you can see the results:

[...]



Answer:



Hi Val,
probably you have a very long DIV id="menu"
try to add the style "display:none" to the DIV id="menu"

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Problem - fire fox browers

the menu doesn't show up when using Fire Fox Browers.

http://hartcenter.com/np/home.html

Answer:

Hi,
for some reason Firefox is sensitive for the "code formatting"

This code won't work in Firefox:
<div id="f-source-menu" style="position:relative;"><object ...

But this code will work:
<div id="f-source-menu" style="position:relative;">
<object ...

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Users know where they are

Hi All,

Thanks for the great job guys.
One quick question, is there any way to let the user know where they are on the website? www.austincityrealty.net is the website that we are working on and when they choose for example the leasing tab, I want the tab stays open on that page and shows the sub menu automatically.

Thanks



Answer:



Hi,
yes, of course.

Use parameters _activeBNum and _activeSubNum.

Set on your first page _activeBNum=1, on your second page
_activeBNum=2 and so on.
To show your visitors where they are.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Vista sliding menu error message

I've purchased a vista sliding menu.
I keep getting the error box attached with this email.  I check in Safari browser.  If I check in Internet Explorer, sometimes the menu comes up, sometimes it doesn't.  Will this be ok once online?
Thanks,
Diane Hayes



Answer:



Yes,
it will be ok online.
Nobody get this message online.

You need to click "Settings..." on that window, or go to the link:

www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html

And set "Always allow" (needed only for local testing)

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Search feature

hello my name is sonja.

I have 2 questions about the search feature.

1. Below you can see the search script I use for www.hbmgroup.com. Can you tell me if this is the right way to use your search script? Or do I need more script?

<div><a href='http://www.google.com/search?sitesearch=hbmgroup.com%26q='><b>SEARCH</b></a></div>

2. The old (pages) site of www.hbmgroup.com has just been removed and the new site is now online. But when I do a search request I still get the results for the OLD hbmgroup.com site. And these pages are not active any more. What do I need to do to get a good search result meaning: a search result that shows the NEW pages of hbmgroup.com?

Can you help me?

Thank you,
greetings
sonja


Answer:


Hello Sonja,

1. Yes, your search code is correct.

2. I suppose you need to wait a little while before google will update its cache.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Menu cutting off

Hello,

I am using one of your menus in my website and the right hand side of the menu seems to be getting cut off when the mouse is not hovering over it. When the mouse is hovering over the menu it is fine so I cannot work out why this is happening.

Is this something that can be fixed?

All the best,

Zack Moir

http://www.zackmoir.com


Answer:


Hi,
the flash object has a width="970", but you have parameter
stretch_width_to = '1000px'

The menu cannot be stretched to the 1000px if you have the width="970".

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

No link to Main Nav buttons

If i Don't want to link anything to the main Buttons, Button 1, Button 2 etc. What do i do? If i take away the 'a Href-link' then the button goes away. I just want there to be a header with no link and the buttons to be on the sub menus.



Answer:


Hi,
don't remove the href-link.

Use href="#" or href="NA"

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Does your products run with PHP?

Our entire website / intranet is based on PHP langunage. Does your product work with this language?


Answer:


Of course, no problem with PHP.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Why it doesn't work without the "www" alias

hello.
when i go here: http://www.onesixmotorsports.com/osc/ the drop down links work. BUT when i go here (without the 'www' alias): http://onesixmotorsports.com/osc/ the drop down links (all links) are broken. i cannot figure out why. please help.

thanks, paul L.



Answer:



Hi,
because you are using an absolute path with "www" to load the menu SWF file:

<param name="movie"
value="https://www.onesixmotorsports.com/flash/adobe_style.swf" />

I recommend to use a relative path, like this:


<param name="movie" value="flash/adobe_style.swf" />


Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Centering menus

I cant get the menu to center. I tried the old school html <center> tag. I also tried the margin-left: auto, margin-right: auto, I even put the whole deal in a table and tried it. what do you recommend?
thnx
Dave


Answer:


Hi Dave,

I recommend to put the DIV id="f-source-menu" in another DIV or table cell with
align="center"

<div align="center">
<div id="f-source-menu">
  .....
</div>
</div>

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Menu Fonts Firefox Mac vs PC

Hi Dmitry,
I'm using the Adobe Style menu. In Firefox on a MAC, the font is displaying
as Times New Roman instead of the correct font of Verdana which
is defined in the Flash settings. In Firefox on a PC it is fine. They are
both Firefox version 2.0.0.16. I tried adding a font tag directly to the
menu items (like I do with bolding in my example) but that didn't work. Any
ideas?

Thanks!

Pam Mikula
Mikula Web Solutions, Inc.


Answer:


Hi Pam,

I recommend to replace _mainFont:'verdana', with _mainFont:'Verdana',

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com


>>>

That worked! How ridiculous that MACs are case-sensitive!
Thanks for your help.
-Pam

Pam Mikula
Mikula Web Solutions, Inc.

NavGuide for Dreamweaver MX 2004

Hi

I have been evaluating your menu products and like what I see.  Unfortunately I am running Dreamweaver MX2004 and find I am unable to install NavGuide.  Dreamweaver's Extension Manager (version 1.6.062) refuses to install it, saying that Dreaweaver 8 or later is required.  Clearly this makes menu configuration a much more laborious task.

I wonder do you have any workaround to this problem?

Regards
Geoff Johnson



Answer:



Hi Geoff,
yes, only Dreaweaver 8 and later versions have nesseccary functions for the NavGuide.

But you can edit the DIV id="menu" directly, without a help of the NavGuide.
It's very easy.
Each line of a code represent a button.
Copy and paste a single line of code to add a new button; delete one line to remove a button.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Which code to paste.

Hi! 
I got one of your menus quite some time ago. I created it about a year ago, but haven't had time to finish it for my website--I now have time.  It's not perfect, but I want to copy and paste the code into my real page, but can't tell which code to copy and paste and also where to paste it.  Please help.


Answer:



Hi,
I recommend to insert the menu on a blank page.
You will see which code was added.

Paste all the menu code in one place in this order:

- script "ActiveContent..."
- DIV id="menu"
- DIV id="f-source-menu"

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

How can I extend the menu width by a lot?

Hi,
I actually have two questions.

1. Do you still have your support blog up and how do I get to it (that was very helpful)?

2 (main question). How do I make the width of the flash menus bigger, especially so that I could extend horizontal menus across the screen (like your webpage where the navigation is centered but splits the screen)? Is there a way to do this? Thanks


Answer:


Hi,
1. Yes, there is a link in the site footer:
http://f-source-com.blogspot.com/

2. Use 100% width menus:
  - Live Style Horizontal Menu
  - Mac Style Menu for Dreamweaver
  - Ruby Red Menu for Dreamweaver
  - EDGE Style Dynamic Menu for Dreamweaver

For other horizontal menus I recommend to use CSS images to extend a menu
across the screen:

<div style="width:100%; background:url(images/bg.png) repeat-x" align="center">
<div id="f-source-menu" style="position:relative;">
     .......
     .......
 </div>
</div>

Example: 100% width using image example

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Using Navigation Guide

Hi,

I have recently purchased the vista drop down menu. When I try to initiate the Navigation Guide by pressing ctrl shift f nothing happens. Can you please tell me what I am doing wrong and what to look out for?

Thanks


Answer:


Hi,
he menu package includes a file "NavGuide.mxp".
Make sure you've installed it in the Extension Manager.

If it's not, install it, restart Dreamweaver and try again Crtl+Shift+F.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Bold Font in EDGE menu

Hi,

Is there a way to make the Font bold on the EDGE menu?

Thanks


Answer:


Hi,
yes, use encoded <b> tags - &lt;b&gt;

<b>Button1</b> ==> &lt;b&gt; Button1 &lt:/b&gt;

< div><a href='http://...'>&lt;b&gt;Button&lt;/b&gt;</a>< /div>

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Drop Down Menue Height

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am use the popup menue in html. but my drop down menue is too much long lenth like 1 to 50 links in one drop down menue. ,y screen is  very small and dropdown menue  lenth big so i want hide up menue and display down menues and when i am click up arow hide down menue and display up menue list. please give me the suggestion for that.

thanks,
VB


Answer:


Hi VB,
I recommend to change the structure of submenus. Add a third level
with sub-submenus (maybe with sub-sub-submenus).
Try free version of the Adobe Style Menu: http://f-source.com/buy/adobeMenu/

I recommend to start with a blank page using these simple steps:
http://f-source.com/flash-menus/good-practice/

If you will have some problem, publish your test page and send me the link,
I will help.

You can extend the maximum height for submenus:
- open your copy of the script "ActiveContentDropDown.js" or
"ActiveContentDropDownWide.js"
(your page should have a link to the script in the head) (the JS file
is included in a menu package)
- find the string "areah=450"
- set desired value, for example "areah=900"

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

WC3 standards valid code

Hi Dmitry,
Long time no communicate!  I hope things are going very well for you.

We are currently in the process of optimizing our website and trying to make it valid to WC3 (The World Wide Web Consortium - http://www.w3.org/) standards.
Not that this is that very important but it is something that we want to try and achieve anyway.

So far we are not having too many problems in making our pages valid to this standard with the exception of the Business Menu.  This link should take you to a page that will show you the results we are getting when a page has been analyzed using the WC3 Validation Tool:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.parexcellencemag.com%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0&verbose=1
Is there anything we can do about this to get it to validate? 
Thanks.


Todd Edwards
President/CEO
Big Apple Media Developers Limited
Suite 37 The Zenith Building
26 Colton Street
Leicester LE1 1QA
England

http://www.parexcellencemag.com


Answer:


Hi Todd,
no problem.
The menu can work with "class" instead of "id".

Just replace <div id='submenu'>  with <div class='submenu'>

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Pre-purchase question, background, conversion

Dear F-Source,

I have downloaded your trial version of the Adobe Stlye Menu software, and am considering purchasing it.  I have been searching for a pop-up menu that works on all platforms (the Spry menu on my Dreamweaver software does not position its menus correctly on Explorer, because of Explorer's non-CSS compliance; your Flash menu does seem to work on Explorer).  I am wondering about 2 or 3 things before I make the purchase:

1.  Would I be able to put my own background image, with a rollover image as well, into the menu entries instead of having background colors?

2.  If so, do you have a page with a listing (or can you direct me to such a listing) of the various parameters used or available to be used in the 'FlashVars' code (including their meanings)?

3.  Whenever I open my Dreamweaver file with this menu trial version, I get a message that certain tags may not render properly in the most recent versions of Explorer.  It asks whether I want to convert them to browser-safe scripts.  If I do this, though, the menu no longer renders correctly in other browsers (the menu will be chopped off below the first menu entry).  Without doing this conversion, it renders properly in Explorer 6, but I haven't had an opportunity to check Explorer 7 yet (I plan to do this today).

Do you believe this conversion to be needed for any versions of Explorer, or should I disallow it altogether?

Thank you for your assistance.  I look forward to the possibility of doing business with F-Source to fill this (and any other) need on my websites.

Sincerely,
Mark Kupke



Answer:


Hi Mark,

1. Adobe Style Menu (for example) can be fully transparent with your
own background image, but with our rollover effect.

2. http://f-source.com/buy/adobeMenu/#menu_config

3. Disable the active content converter: http://f-source.com/before_insert/
Our menus have a built-in solution of the problem.

I recommend to start with a blank page using these simple steps:
http://f-source.com/flash-menus/good-practice/

If you will have some problem, publish your test page and send me the link,
I will help.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Extra space at the top of menu

Hello - I seem to have extra space at the top of my menubar and haven't been able to find where/what I should change to get rid of it.  Can you check it out and tell me how to fix it?

http://jsm.mltgroup.com/default.htm

Many thanks -
Sarah


Answer:


Hi Sarah,
remove the &nbsp; symbol in the menu table cell,
before the DIV id="menu"

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

menu button onclick

Thank you so much!

You can find the page at: http://herocarerewards.org/Herocare/HerocareNew.cfm

I'm trying to get the submenu links off of "Housing & FInancial" on the
Vista Navigation Bar to link to the appropriate tabbed panels on the bottom
right of the page. Each main menu item on the main navigation bar will have
its own page, and each submenu item will be placed in the tabs on the right
side of each page. The code for the external trigger to open each tab is:
onclick="P7_TPtrig('p7tpc1_1')"

The number 1 refers to the number of the submenu item. The 2nd submenu item
would have the following code: onclick="P7_TPtrig('p7tpc2_2')" etc.

When I add this code to a Dreamweaver spry men bar it works, but I can't get
it to work on the Vista Nav Bar.

Any help you can give me would be great.

Thanks,
Alyson
Herocare, Inc.
(877) HERO-411  Ext. 3


Answer:


Hi Alyson,
there is a function inside of the DIV id="f-source-menu":

function JSF(url){alert("javascript: "+url);}

Here is instrunctions how to use it:
http://f-source.com/flash-menus/Vista_navigation_bar/#javascript

Example:

<div><a href='p7tpc1_1' target='callJSF'>Button1</a></div>
<div><a href='p7tpc2_2' target='callJSF'>Button2</a></div>


function JSF(url){
  if(url=="p7tpc1_1") { P7_TPtrig('p7tpc1_1') }
  if(url=="p7tpc2_2") { P7_TPtrig('p7tpc2_2') }
}


Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

How to center menu in webpage

I'm trying to use the Metalic menu for DreamWeaver & can't figure out how to get it to center in the page instead of aligning to the left.
Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated.

Julie McWright


Answer:


Hi Julie,
just put the DIV id="f-source-menu" in another DIV or table cell with
align="center"

<div align="center">
 <div id="f-source-menu">
    .....
 </div>
</div>

Regards
Dmitry
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Menu doesn't overlap a drop down list

The adobe style menu doesn't overlap a drop down list.
How can I fix it?

Answer:

Hi,
it's a common problem for IE.
The drop down list appears on top of everything in IE.

I recommend to use this solution:


(Replace your drop down list with this code)

<div id="dselect" style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105); display: none;">
<select id="citys" class="info" style="width: 160px;"
onchange="document.getElementById('selected').innerHTML ='Selected city: '+this.value; ch(true,false,true);">
<option value="any">Select a city</option>
<option id="cityNY" value="NY">New York</option>
<option id="cityLA" value="LA">Los Angeles</option>
</select>
</div>

<div id="dlink" style="display: block;">
<a href="javascript:ch(false,true,false)" style="color: rgb(116, 175,
225);">Select a city</a>
</div>

<div id="selected" style="color: rgb(105, 105, 105); display: none;"></div>

<script>
function ch(dlink,dselect,selected){
var divs = ['dlink','dselect','selected']
for(var i=0; i<3; i++) {
if(arguments[i]){
document.getElementById(divs[i]).style.display = 'block';
}else{
document.getElementById(divs[i]).style.display = 'none';
}

}
}
</script>

Regards
Dmitry
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search box config POST or GET method

Hello,
 I purchased the Live Style menu. It's a very quality product. I should have purchased all menus. Can I upgrade my single domain purchase of $33.33 to an All Multidomain Menus purchase of $99.99 by paying only the difference of $66.66?

Is it possible to use the Live Style search box with a script that uses the POST method? For example, this is what I currently use:
%u2039form method='POST' action='http://MyWebsite.com/cgi-bin/site/search.cgi'%u203A%u2039input type='text' name='keywords' size='30'%u203A%u2039input type='submit' value='Search' name='B1'%u203A%u2039/form

%u203A

I have tried many ways, but can't get it to work. I've also tried a few GET methods, but I can't get those to work either. I've searched your impressive list of responses to questions, but can't find the answer after many hours. A search box would be helpful ;]  Thanks for your time.

Gratefully,
Ryan

Answer:


Hi Ryan,
1. Yes, use this special link please:

[ truncated ]

2. A menu can search only with the GET method.

You can easily adapt any GET search, using these steps:

- Test a search form, make a search of "test string"
- Copy a resulting URL from a browser address bar.
- Replace & with %26 in the resulting URL (do not replace, if you keep the DIV id="menu" in an XML file)
- Move the query parameter (q=test+string) to the end of the URL and remove the "test string"

For example a google custom search generates this URL:

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=015076957661366469059%3A4-chnwqi44u
&cof=FORID%3A0&q=test+string&sa=Search

A menu search button should have this URL:
a href="
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=015076957661366469059%3A4-chnwqi44u
%26cof=FORID%3A0%26sa=Search%26q="



Regards
Dmitry
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Submenu with a lot of links

Hi,
I've got a submenu with a lot of links (almost 96). The menu stop at the 19th position and don't write the others. How can I do to see all my links?
I try to set the 'height' parameter of the flash object to 10000. It works but my web page is quite big...

Thanks


Answer:


Hi,
you can extend only the maximum height for submenus:

- open your copy of the script "ActiveContentDropDown.js" or
"ActiveContentDropDownWide.js"
(your page should have a link to the script in the head) (the JS file
is included in a menu package)
- find the string "areah=450"
- set desired value, for example "areah=900"

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Long link doesn't work

Hi I purchased this product and I am try to add link to

http://backwebs.homenetinc.com/offleaseonly/search3.asp?
type_select=used&style=narrow

And it won't work and it apears it is because the '&' in the link.  When I put it in it blanks the bar out from that button on. How do I get around this.  I have already implemented this product on another site with no problems.


Answer:


Hi,
replace & with %26.

Also possibly the word "style=" affects.

Try to replace it (style=narrow) with something else.

Regards
Dmitry
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Submenu height limit

Where's Dmitry?  I've sent 2 emails to the support email address but both were returned in error?  He had helped me with some previous menu issues, I always appreciated it.  Prompt and professional.

I've run into another problem that I can't figure out.  One of my drop down menus gets cut off on the bottom?  Is there a maximum limit to the number of menu choices they can hold?

Could I send you a screen shot or the XML code that populates the menu so you could actually see this issue?

Test link: Click on 'Online Catalog' and then 'And More...' on the menu at the top of the page.  In the drop down submenu of 'And More...', the last four menu choices are being cut off...

This site is about finished so any help would be greatly appreciated,


bd


Brian Dykes
1916 Fox Mountain Road
Columbus, NC 28722
USA


http://www.duraparts.com/



Answer:



Hi Brian,
you can extend the maximum height for submenus:

- open your copy of the script
"http://www.duraparts.com/scripts/ActiveContentDropDown2.js"
- find the string "areah=450"
- set desired value, for example "areah=600"

Regards
Dmitry
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Where to get file 'ActiveContent3_2a.js'

Hello.

I just bought your product and it's great. In the code there is a message saying that I can get this .js file so it speeds up script loading. Where can I get this for download?

Thanks!

Cristian Rojas


Answer:


Hi Cristian,
the script file is included in the menu package.

 
Dmitry
f-source.com

Menu doesn't displays above flash content

Dear Sir/Madam,
The links are directly above another flash content and the submenu goes behind the content instead of overlaying the content below. How can I fix it?


Answer:


Hi,
add wmode="transparent" to the OTHER flash content,
see example here: http://f-source.com/faq/  ==> - Drop down menu seem
to be dropping underneath another flash movie. How to fix it?

Regards
Dmitry
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turn off the menu graphic

Are you able to turn off the menu graphic? Meaning if I wanted to use your menus just showing the text without the bar graphic the menu sits on, is that possible? Do you have  a version on the site for that?

great stuff BTW


Answer:


Hi Jeff,
yes, it is possible.
Use transparency parameters
(for example: Yahoo! Style Menu Bar - http://f-source.com/menu-bar/yahoo/)

_TransparencyMain - regulate the transparency of the main menu bar (0 - 100)
_TransparencyShadow - regulate the transparency of the main drop
shadow (0 - 100)
_TransparencySub - regulate the transparency of the submenus (0 - 100)

0 - fully transparent

Regards
Dmitry
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Multicolor Web Menu - how to resize?

hi!
I bought the full version of your product;
I have this question:
How can I resize a single button? for example when I customize this menu i want to add more buttons but I need to resize them obviously because at the moment the menu bar go outside my page width (800px).
At the moment I resize only all the webmenu bar, but, if want to resize buttons individually, how can I do?
Thanks,
Alex



Answer:



Hi Alex,
the width of each button depends on a caption text length.

The parameter "_mainButWidthExt" regulates the additional width
extension for each button.

Try to reduce the value of _mainButWidthExt.

Regards
Dmitry
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Download a file via menu button click

It's posible to set one of the button to force a download of a particular file?
Can you provide me with alittle code sample to set the button?

Thank You

Daniel Diez


Answer:


Here is an example of button code:
<div><a href='http://f-source.com/flash-menus/Vista_navigation_bar/menu.zip' target='_self'>Download</a></div>

href='[direct link to the file]'
target='self'



Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Call javaScript function from menu

Is it possible to call javaScript function from menu and how. I tried like:

<div><a href='#' onclick = 'doSomething()' > Do something</a></div>

but it doecs not work. All the menu gone.


Thanks,


Answer:


Yes, it's possible.
Use our function JSF(url) and  target='callJSF'

http://f-source.com/flash-menus/Vista_navigation_bar/#javascript


For example:

<div><a href='firstURL' target='callJSF'>Button1</a></div>


function JSF(url){
 if(url=="firstURL") { doSomething() }
 if(url=="secondURL")alert("Second button is pressed");
}

The function can be found in the DIV id="f-source-menu".

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Does your menu work over other flash?

We are setting up the trial version to see if it will work for our site.  but when we try to overlay it on another flash bg the sub menus dissapear.  We've been able to adjust the z-index which allows the main menu to overlay the flash - but not the sub. Also does this work in firefox?  There is a line of scriped error on the top of the page in firefox.  We definitely need these 2 things to be supported in order for it to work on our site/ purchase the full version.  our demo sits here and you can see the issues i'm referring to. http://www.plasmon.com/index1.html


Answer:


Hi,
add wmode="transparent" to the flash bg, to make the menu to overlay
on another flash bg,

2. Don't remove the ID = "f-source-menu". Flash menu object will work
only within the DIV id="f-source-menu".

3. If you want to add z-index to the menu, enclose the DIV in another DIV:

<div style="position:absolute; z-index:99;">
  <div id="f-source-menu" style="position:relative;">
     .....

4. Remove the comment line: <!--<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh"
CONTENT="30">----> to fix that script error.


Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Flash Content underneath

Hi I have some flash content on my site and am using your Flat Vertical Menu for Dreamweaver when I mouseover the menus they do not show over my flash content



Answer:



Hi,
you need to add wmode="transparent" to the flash content code,
see example here: http://f-source.com/faq/  ==> - Drop down menu seem
to be dropping underneath another flash movie. How to fix it?


Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

How to add button sounds?

I have the vista nav bar. How do I add/change the sounds for the buttons?
Thanks



Answers:



Hi,
the menu has parameters:
- clickSoundURL,
- mainSoundURL,
- subSoundURL,

Upload mp3 files on a server,
set URLs, for example
clickSoundURL: sounds/myClickSound.mp3 (relative path)
or
clickSoundURL: http://www.YourDomain.com/sounds/myClickSound.mp3 (absolute path)

Sample MP3s are attached.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

IE7 problem - absolute and relative positions

My menu works fine in Firefox but in IE7 the drop down menu is going behind other items at the top of the page. I have the div for the menu as the first item under body with its position set to absolute. The other divs are relative. Is this a bug with IE7?


http://www.gotoccs.com/price_eye/index.htm



Answer:


Remove the CSS rules "position:relative;" from your site items, for
example, "a5-header-text"

Or put the DIV id="f-source-menu" in another DIV with absolute position.
For example:

<div style="position:absolute; z-index:99;">
    <div id="f-source-menu" style="position:relative;">
          ....
          ....
    </div>
</div>

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Yahoo Menu Bar not displaying over crossfading images

Hi - love the menus and am testing the Yahoo Style menu at www.tq2008.csbinternet.co.uk however the menu displays behind the crossfading images.
I realise it may not be the menu, can the menu be coded to always appear on top? or is it because teh crossfading is loading a new image it will overwrite whats already there?
Thanks


Answer:


Hi,
the crossfading images have absolute position.

You need to enclose the DIV id="f-source-menu" in another DIV with
absolute position and z-index.
(z-index for DIV id="menu" doesn't take effect)

For example:

<div style="position:absolute; z-index:999;">
     <div id="f-source-menu" style="position:relative;">
        .....
        .....


Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Search engine feature

Hi!  
I have a menu bar with a search engine box and could never get it to work, so I'm ready to get rid of the whole thing.  I would like to buy yours, but I need to know if I would have the same problem or do you have instructions for getting the search engine to work.  If not, would it be possible to get the menu bar without the search box?  thanks, kim



Answer:


Hi,
I think you have both options with our menus:
- make it work
- or easily remove the searchField

Try to find instructions here: http://f-source.com/faq/

I recommend to start with a blank page using these simple steps:
http://f-source.com/flash-menus/good-practice/

If you will have some problem, publish your test page and send me the link,
I will help.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Vertical Scrollbars on my home page

Hi,

When installing the EDGE dynamic menu on my private web page, for some reason the menu has increased the height of my page dramtically and now has scroll bars down the side.

The width appears to be ok.
Is there anyway to reduce the height of the page?

Kind Regards,
Stuart



Answer:



Hi Stuart,
try to add the CSS rule "display:none" to the DIV id="menu".


Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Navigation to Main Frame

Hi, I wonder if you can help.
I have put the Adobe style menu in my top frame (I have three - Top, Left and main) and I am wanting to know 2 things...
1. How do I get the menu to appear on top of the frames below, the lower menu items when an item is selected is hidden behind the lower frames.
2. How do I get a menu item to open a page in the main frame?

Thanks and apologies but I am a beginner!

Andy


Answer:


Hi Andy,
2. You need to set target="FrameName" for each link: <a href="..."
target="frame2"></a>

1. Drop down menu cannot appear on top of another frame. It is
possible with iframes.
But in general, I recommend to avoid using frames or iframes. Probably
you are looking for a way to keep the menu code in one file, I recommend to use
XML instead: http://f-source.com/faq/xml/

If you cannot get rid of frames, use horizontal menu, such as Macromedia
Style: http://f-source.com/buy/mmStyleMenu/

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Vista Sliding Menu XML

Well I finally got the menu bar all set-up. There must be a bug in my
Dreamweaver program.

I went in and looked at my Active content converter and it was unchecked as
it should be. Just for the heck of it, I checked it and saved it, then went
in and unchecked it again and resaved it and then started from scratch.
After doing that everything worked fined. I was able to simply set-up the
menu bar and all the links tracked properly. Just to make sure it wasn't me,
I tried again from scratch and it would not work until I went through the
process of checking and unchecking the Active Content Converter???? Anyway
it works now and I am already to load it.

I love the way it looks and works BUT I am now having problems loading it
into my website.  So can you give me a step by step of how to replace my old
menu with the new one? I ask for your patience, though. Just to mention I
build my website myself and can move around Dreamweaver pretty well, but I
am self taught, so I am dangerous. There is a lot I know and can do, but
there are definite gaps in my knowledge. So consider me a newbie.

I set-up the page just like it says in your "Easy Steps for Newbie's"

So I have several files. I have a "Menu.swf", I have a "Menu.html" and I
set-up a "navigation.xml". I changed the xml_path in the Flash Element in
the Menu.html to the navigation file. But I just see a blank area where my
menu should be on my local site pages. I tried to follow your directions
that come with the menu but I am obviously doing something wrong.

2 things I am unclear on -

1) I am unclear on the Navigation.xml. Let me verify that when I opened up a
blank xml file and copied the "DIV id="menu" and I copy each line of the
entire menu and my links. Correct?  But nothing else that was in the HTML. I
have attached that file for you to look at.
I left line 1 in when you set-up a blank XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
- should that stay with the page?
I tried it both ways, with it in and out of the file. It mad e no
difference.

2) When in Dreamweaver, I test the menu bar by pushing f12 and every thing
looks good. The menu bar comes up with a white background and works
properly, but when I exit Dreamveaver and test the site pages locally, it
does not come up at all, the site page comes up with a blank spot where the
menu should be.

I moved the three files to my server, but nothing happens. I left them there
so you would be able to look at them.

You can see the Menu.swf at http://www.faithware.biz/Menu.swf
And the Navigation at http://www.faithware.biz/Navigation.xml
But the Menu.html will no show up at all.

I have attached all three files as well for you to look at.

SO I hope that helps you figure it out.
Can you give me a step by step instruction as to how to load it into my
website?

Thanks
Jeff Boardman
Faithware LLC
PO Box 250305
Milwaukee, WI 53225
414-840-4030
414-527-1703 Fax
jeff@faithware.biz
www.faithware.biz


Answer:


Hi,
I've checked your files, almost everything is correct.

You have only one mistake. The page is trying to load
http://www.faithware.biz/navigation.xml (navigation.xml)
not http://www.faithware.biz/Navigation.xml (Navigation.xml)

When you will copy the menu code to another pages, don't forget to
copy these three code snippets:

1. Script - <script src='ActiveContentSliding.js'></script>
(by default it is located in the head of the page).
2. Navigation settings - DIV id='menu'.
3. Flash object - DIV id = 'f-source-menu'.


About the XML questions.
Correct.  The code <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> makes no difference.


Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Drop menu below the text

Hi,
I am the programmer working on the project. Attached is the reference to
our purchase.

I see a problem with these menus and I am sure you may have a fix, since
I have not worked with your menus.

The menu pops up ok, but UNDER the text that is below it.

Example:
Header Graphic.
Menu bar - created by your software.
Then Text and main cell will more text.

In Firefox on Mac it runs just fine. Bring it up in IE on Windows... The
menus popup, but not on top of everything else. Even the Graphic Buttons
Below the text. I have two menus that are long and display below that as
well. I need them to display on top of ALL items on the page.

The site I am working in internal, so I cannot show you, perhaps this
screen shot will help.

Thanks!
Kerby
IT Champaign, IL
Cap and Gown Division
Herff Jones, Inc


Answer:


Hi Kerby,
that can happen in IE browser, if your text DIV has an absolute
position or relative position style.

There are two solutions:

1. Remove a style="position:relative;" or style="position:absolute;" from the text div.

2. Put the DIV id="f-source-menu" in another DIV with style="position:absolute; z-index:2;"


<div style="position:absolute; z-index:2;">
  <div id="f-source-menu" style="position:relative;">
      .....
      .....
  </div>
</div>



Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Centering the main menu

I am considering buying your product, but I am having trouble with one thing and I would like to know if this is possible.  I would like to center the menu on my page without having to resize it and stretch it across the page.  Is it possible to center a 600px wide menu on a page?


Answer:

Of course,
just put the DIV id="f-source-menu" in another DIV or table cell with
align="center".

Example:

<div align="center">
   <div id="f-source-menu" style="position:relative;">
      .....
      .....
   </div>
</div>

I recommend to start with a blank page using these simple steps:
http://f-source.com/flash-menus/good-practice/

If you will have some problem, publish your test page and send me the link,
I will help.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Adobe Menu - background and drop shadow

Is there a way to get rid of the drop shadow and blend?
I just want the menu to be solid orange and with no drop shadow?

thanks,


Answer:


Yes,
set parameter _TransparencyShadow  to 0 in the tag inspector.

Drop menu not active with latest flash player

I can't find a resolution to this.  Happens on my wifes computer and a clients computer.  Does not happen on my Vista computer or my Server 2003 system.

Wifes Computer:

XP Pro SP3
Internet Explorer 7

Goes to my Home page, and the menu works perfectly as expected.  Click on any item and you navigate to that page.  Once you do that, however, you cannot use the menu again.  Though the menu appears to be active, it drops, and highlights there is no click capability.  You can't navigate to anyother pages.  If you go back to the home page, the click capability returns on the home page only.


Answer:


You need to have similar path to SWF file and JS file.
(VistaDropMenu.swf and ActiveContentDropDown.js)

Both start with www -  http://www.DJ-Hunt.com
or both without it -  http://DJ-Hunt.com

Or use relative paths instead <param name="movie"
value="DWSite/Menus/VistaDropMenu.swf" /> as you did on the home page.

Looks like the latest version of the flash player is sensitive for that.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Drop down problem in Firefox

Hello
Having firefox issue where submenu is not live past the first submenu line. Read your blog post from May 5, 2008 and incorporated your script into the div id='f-source..... - this has not corrected the error.
Below is link to live navigation - drop down under main tab 'Surgical Procedures' - you will see first line 'Facelift & Necklift' shows activated but subsequent lines are not active.
All works well in IE but no other browsers.
Your quickest response would be greatly appreciated!!
Thank you,
E. Davis


http://www.robertscosmeticsurgery.com



Answer:



Hi,
I've checked your page.
The DIV id="container" has a style overflow:auto;
DIV with this style captures a focus from a flash movie in Firefox.

Try to remove it.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Problem with menus in Firefox on PC

There is a problem with your menus and Firefox on the PC platform only (Firefox on the Mac works fine, as do all other browsers on both Mac and PC).

When the menu is embedded in a header div using Dreamweaver's own templates, mousing over the menu items no longer brings up the finger, nor does the menu drop down. One has to actually click on the menu to make it work. Sometimes the menus work, sometimes they don't. Sometimes using the vertical scroll bar on the page causes them to stop working.

This is a serious problem and it needs to be resolved. If I'm having it, others will also.


Thank you.

*****
Richard W. Hughes
RWH Publishing & Books
PO Box 2015
Fallbrook, CA 92088
USA



Answer:


Hi Richard,
you need to add this script onmouseover="if(!ied){i= fdiv.style.height.indexOf('px');h=Number(fdiv.style.height.substring(0,i));
fdiv.style.height=h+1+'px';}"
to the DIV id="f-source-menu" to fix the issue:


<div id="f-source-menu" style="position:relative;"
onmouseover="if(!ied){i= fdiv.style.height.indexOf('px'); h=Number(fdiv.style.height.substring(0,i));fdiv.style.height=h+1+'px';}" >


Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Size of menu and Java Script

Hi,

1. Is there a way to be able to have the height of the menu smaller... at the 64px high it means there is a 40px gap between the menu and the images below - please see my site.

2. I have tried to save the javascript and change the path but it says it can't find the file?

Thanks Jamie


http://www.hi-lifecumbuco.com/hilifecentre



Answer:



Hi Jamie,

1. Just set the flash object height equal to the menu _mainHeight.

2. I recommend to upload the script (which is provided in the menu
package) to the root directory of your site and set this path:
<script src='http://www.hi-lifecumbuco.com/ActiveContentDropDown2.js'
type='text/javascript'></script>

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Menu size - space above and below the menubar

Hi,
Ive downloaded the free version of this dream weaver extension.
When i put this into the Webpages, it adds extra space to the top and bottom of the cell that it is in.   I have tried changing the 'main menu height' but it doesn't change, it still adds this extra space.
Is there a setting that i need to change to remove this or can it not be changed?

Thanks,
Mike


http://www.phoenixarcheresu.co.uk/


Answer:


Hi Mike,

1. The space above - remove &nbsp; symbol before the DIV id="menu"
2. The space below - the flash object has height="62", try to reduce the value.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Very long submenu

Thank you sir,
That has helped.  Now I do have 1 other question before I present this to my
supervisor to see if we can get the software or not.  With the drop downs,
how do I add more?  I actually need 24 sub menus on one button, I have all
of them in the code, but they don't all show when I test it out.  If you
could help that would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
Greg Borgard


Answer:


Greg,
the max height of the flash is limited by 450px by default,
but you can change the value.

- open your copy of the script "ActiveContentDropDown.js"(by default
the script is loaded in the head of your page from
http://f-source.com/scripts/ActiveContentDropDown.js)
(the script provided in the menu package)
- find the string "areah=450"
- set desired value, for example "areah=600"


Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Update Active X

Hi,
I don't have a problem on my computers, but on a friend's that has not got the latest Flash update the menu doesn't load and asks to update Active X, eventually the menu appears, but when you navigate to another page the same thing happens again. I don't want force clients to have to update to view the page, is there anything I can do?
Melanie
PS I do have some other flash going on the index page but not on the others, which still have the same problem
 
 
www.sealflex.co.uk/newsite
 

Answer:


Hi Melanie,
our menus require flash player version 6 or higher.

Probably dreamweaver has set codebase ="...version=9,0,28,0" for both flash movies.

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0"

You can replace it with codebase ="...version=7,0,0,0" for example:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0"

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

The menu is not long enough

I placed the menu in my site using tables. I can't get the menu to be long enough. I tried extending it by pulling it but it still will not change. Is there a way to give put space between each menu item. I also tried changing the width (750) put that will not work. I don't want the table width to extend.
Hope that makes sense.

Cheryl
http://annabellasalonspa.com/banner.html


Answer:


Hi Cheryl,
all you need is to set the parameter stretch_width_to = '750px'
(the flash object must have similar width = 750)

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Space above and below the Menu in dreamweaver

Hello,
I am writing you to ask a question about your product.  My company is thinking about purchasing the vista dropdown menu (maybe the package of all of them).  But before that happens they asked me to test out the demo and see how well it works.  Now I've downloaded the Vista dropdown and placed it in dreamweaver.  But the issue I am having is I place it in a cell below my heading and above another flash file.  The vista drop down seems to enlarge the cell it is in, height.  I don't knwo why.  It has a lot of extra space above it which I would like to remove.  Please advise.


Answer:


Hi,
possibly you forgot to remove &nbsp; symbol in the table cell (space above),
try to reduce the height of the flash object (space below)


If you will have some problem, publish your test page and send me the link,
I will help.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Tabbed Menu and Flat Vertical Menu problem

I have your tabbed menu item which I purchased a couple of years ago and I love it. I am thinking of purchasing your bundle package because I think the variety of menu options is fabulous. I have two questions.

1. When I put in text that had an apostrophy it did not show up within the menu. Is there some code that can be put in similiar to the bold code to show an apostrophy?

2. When I put the flat vertical menu in the sub pop-up menu was hidden behind another flash image I had on the website. is there anything that will allow me to have the sub-menus go on the top of the other flash image?

Thank you.


Answer:


Hi,
1. You can escape the apostrophe with a backslash to solve the problem: "Bill\'s Company"

2. Add wmode=transparent to the ANOTHER flash movie, see example here: http://f-source.com/faq/ ==> - Drop down menu seem to be dropping underneath another flash movie. How to fix it?

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Visual Studio 2005/2008 Support

  Hi,

 I understand that you prefer to support Dreamweaver, but I did not find clear instructions about how to setup and install your component directly in my page using Visual Studio or even notepad.

 Is not it supported at all? Do I need Dreamweaver to use your product?

  Thanks and regards,
  Orly



Answer:


Hi Orly,
you will need Dreamweaver to generate necessary files and code.

In fact the menu is just HTML code + SWF file.
If you don't have Dreamweaver I will send you ready-to-use files after purchase.

You will be able to edit a menu in any text/html editor.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Danish letters in the Vista menu

Hey.

Last year i bye your vista drop down meny and i am happy for that. But i need to use danish letters in the menus and that i not an option as default letters in the menu. How do i fix that problem?

  Regards
  Dennis - Denmark


Answer:


Hi Dennis,
use "google encoding": http://f-source.com/flash-menu/international/

or XML: http://f-source.com/faq/xml/

in xml you can write any symbols as is, without encoding.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Number of Buttons

Hi-
I'm creating a web site that will have 8 different buttons in the menu bar with numerous submenu buttons. Is this possible? All the samples I have seen have only had a maximum of 6 buttons at the top. If it's possible, could you tell me how to add the buttons once I purchase it?

Thanks!


Answer:


Hi,
of course it is possible.
Just copy and paste a single line of code in the DIV id="menu".

I recommend to start with a blank page using these simple steps:
http://f-source.com/flash-menus/good-practice/

If you will have some problem, publish your test page and send me the link,
I will help.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Yahoo Style Menu Bar - display over HTML

Im very sorry if I have missed how to do this within your helpful and informative instructions and tutorials.

But how do I get my yahoo style menu to display OVER normal HTML?  and is this feature within all the menus? or just the newer ones i have downloaded recently.

Whilst Im asking questions how do i also get my websites that i have used f-source menus on your list of menu user links.

Keep up the good work F-source !!

Andy Connell



Answer:



Hi Andy,
the menu must dispaly over normal html by default.

Possibly you forgot to disable the active content converter:
http://f-source.com/before_insert/

- disable the active content converter
- remove all the menu code from your page
- insert the menu again

I recommend to start with a blank page using these simple steps:
http://f-source.com/flash-menus/good-practice/

If you will have some problem, publish your test page and send me the link,
I will help.


Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Contribute - Vista Drop Down Menu becomes unusable

I am using a Vista Drop down menu in one of the website I just put
together. The client wants to be able to edit some of the pages.
When I use contribute for editing the Vista drop down menu changes and
becomes unusable. It seems to loose all of its settings reverting
back to button 1 button 2 ect... It also looses it's links.

Please Advise.

Answer:

Hi,
I heard about the problem: contribute convert the flash menu code
with the function "AC_FL_RunContent"

To avoid it, you can lock the code using Library item or Templale
repeating region.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Menu centering in a table cell

How to align the menu to center on a page regardless
of window width.

I need center the flash in a cell of a table or fix de width because i
change de table values dinamically.

Answer:

Hi,
just put the DIV id="f-source-menu" in another DIV or table cell with
align="center".

For example:

<div align="center">
<div id="f-source-menu">
....
</div>
</div>

If you will have some problem, publish your test page and send me the link,
I will help.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Mozilla Firefox scrolling div issue

Yes, the scrolling div captures the focus and the drop down menu is
not working above the div.
I've tried to remove the style "overflow:auto".
That helped, but the content in that box is often times longer than
the box so I still need the ability to scroll.

Do you know of any workarounds for that problem?
I saw something in a forum about putting the flash content in an iframe.
Would that help?

Answer:

Iframe is not ideal solution.
Looks like I've found a better workaround:

- try to use "position:fixed" instead of relative for the DIV
id="f-source-menu"

<div id="f-source-menu" style="position:fixed;....

In this case the menu won't lose the focus above the scrolling DIV.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Is there a way I can use atomz instead of google?

There is a search form code for html integration, but is it possible
to embed in the menu?
here's the atomz code:

<!-- Atomz HTML for Search -->
<form method='get' action='http://search.atomz.com/search/'>
<input type='hidden' name='sp_a' value='sp1003f360'>
<input size='15' name='sp_q'>
<input type='submit' value='Search'>
<input type='hidden' name='sp_p' value='all'>
<input type='hidden' name='sp_f' value='ISO-8859-1'>
</form>

Answer:

Yes, here is the search button code for HTML navigation settings (DIV
id="menu"):

<div ><a href='http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp_a=sp1003f360%26sp_p=all
%26sp_f=ISO-8859-1%26sp_q=' target='_blank'>Search</a></div>

here is the search button code for XML:

<div ><a href='http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp_a=sp1003f360&sp_p=all
&sp_f=ISO-8859-1&sp_q=' target='_blank'>Search</a></div>

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Incorporating flash menus into another flash movie

Hi!
I really like your menu system and it seems logical (and cost
effective) to just buy the tool and go with it. The only problem I
have is, what I * really * want to do is incorporate a pull up or down
menu that exists as a layer within a flash presentation, with a
'movie' background. I have the movie background down pat, now I want
to 'layer' a menu over it. It is a great effect! To see exactly the
type of pull down menu I am talking about, please visit:
http://www.jimmessenger.com. If your product can do this, I'll buy. I
am afraid that because it is a 'plug' of sorts, I won't have access to
the raw .fla code, that would allow me to do such a thing?

Thanks
Kyle

Answer:

Hi Kyle,
there is no need to incorporate a menu into another flash movie.

Use CSS styles to place a menu over the flash presentation.

Don't use z-index, just add wmode=transparent to the flash presentation,
see example here: http://f-source.com/faq/ ==> - Drop down menu seem to be dropping underneath another flash movie. How to fix it?

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

z-index and Flash

Hello, I have a macromedia style menu (I think it's that one) that I
am using just above a Flash object. The drop down menus seem to be
dropping underneath my Flash area. I've tried messing around with the
z-index of both the menu as well as the animation that appears
underneath it. I think i found that suggestion on one of your blogs
or another site.

What might i be doing wrong here? Is there a workaround?

http://www.2.microwebstrategy.com/home2.php

Thanks!

Answer:

Hi,
the issue described in our FAQ.

http://f-source.com/faq/ ==> Drop down menu seem to be dropping underneath another flash movie. How to fix it?

You need to add wmode="transparent" to the flash object below the menu.

Since you are using the AC_FL_RunContent function, you need to add
"wmode" in the function
AC_FL_RunContent('wmode','transparent',.....

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Mac Style Menu - Jumps to middle

Hi, just bought the menus and have used one here

http://www.figgatepark.org.uk/

the menu bar is a bit long, I was wondering how to shorten it to the
legnth of the buttons. also it seems to jump to the gallery, no matter
what page I am on. So that it looks like I am on the gallery page even
when I am not
any suggestions

thanks
Dave

Answer:

Hi Dave,

1. Use parameter _BUTTONWIDTH to shorten each button/tab.
To shorten the submenu bar you need to put the menu in another DIV or
table cell with a smaller width.

2. The menu has a parameter "_activeBNum". (3 by default)

I recommend to set on your first page _activeBNum=1, on your second
page _activeBNum=2 and so on.
To show your visitors where they are.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Precise centering of the menu bar

Hey,
I've put the menu in a table TD <td height="45" align="center">,
but the menu is not centered exactly in the middle of the table.

Any thoughts?
Common problem?
Bruce

Answer:

Hi Bruce,
I've tested your code.

The DIV id="f-source-menu" enclosed in the SPAN <span
style="position:relative;"> and <div align="center">
1. Remove the SPAN.
2. Remove another surrounding DIV <div align="center">.

The menu will be centered by the TD <td height="45" align="center">

To make more precise centering you need to set a real menu bar width
to the flash object. The real menu width is about 595, but your flash
object width is 630.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Local testing, exteral links don't work

Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for the quick reply, i have a quick question for you about the
the menu bar buttons, i have it inserted into a Div tag in
dreamweaver.

When viewing them on the website the menu bar works like it is
supposed to but when i try to click on the drop down button links they
dont do anything i just stay at the main page, when i link files that
are contained in the main folder to it, that works though, so how do i
link external site when the buttons dont work when adding an adress?

Answer:

Everything will work, when you publish the page on a server.

To make it work locally, visit:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html

And set "Always allow" (for local testing) in the online setting manager.

Dmitry
f-source.com

Mac Tab/Nav Bar movement - return to default active button

Not sure if this is my problem (probably is) but when using the Mac
Style Menu, irrespective of which Nav Tab I select, it seems to revert
back to Button 3 once I move my cursor elsewhere on the screen.

Wondered if you can advise.

Many thanks and regards

Paul Garrett

Answer:

Hi Paul,
the menu has a parameter "_activeBNum".

I recommend to set on your first page _activeBNum=1, on your second
page _activeBNum=2 and so on.
To show your visitors where they are.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Navigation and iframe, open a link in an iframe

Hi Corinne,
I've tested your code and found that everything is correct,
it will work only if you replace the iframe name and id with "content"
instead of "_content".

Rather strange, but now it work in all browsers.

<iframe class="frame" name="content" id="content" frameborder="0"></iframe>

and the button link:

<div><a href='http://www.coco.li/sch/flash/endodontologie.html'

target='content'>Endodontologie</a></div>

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

> Hi
>
> I've tried to conntact you over the support on the homepage, but whenever I
clicked on view and send, my browser crashed.
>
> So I decided to write to you directly. I have a the following problem:
>
> I'm using the vista menu and a iframe in my page. My submenu button
'Endontologie' of the mainbutton 'Angebote' should open a new html page in
the iframe.
>
> <div><a href='flash/endodontologie.html'
target="_content">Endodontologie</a></div>
>
> <iframe class="frame" name="_content" frameborder="0"></iframe>
>
> Iframe style:
>
> iframe.frame
> {
> position: absolute;
> margin-left: -440px;
> left: 50%;
> width: 100%;
> height: 480px;
> visibility: visible;
> text-align:center;
> border: none;
> z-index: 6000;
> }
>
> This all works great in the internet explorer but firefox opens a neu
browser windows to display the linked page instead of displaying it in the
frame? http://www.coco.li/sch/

>
> Thx for your help.
>
> Greets
>
> Corinne

Is this like Spry? Self contained extension?

Hi,
yes, the extension is all self contained in Dreamweaver.
You don't need to have flash.

No problem with other flash.

Try to test a free version.

I recommend to start with a blank page using these simple steps:
http://f-source.com/flash-menus/good-practice/

If you will have some problem, publish your test page and send me the link,
I will help.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

>
> Is this feature all self contained inside of Dreamwerver or do I
need to creat some features in Flash?
>
> And I see that there are issues with other FLash files on the
site, I use them alot and do not need to cause myself un due problems

XML format (Save As UTF-8)

Many thanks!!

I have finaly made it!
My problem was that I was creating a .xml file from Dreamweaver CS3...
but with the notepad it went all good.

Best regards
Pedro Gouveia

> Hi Pedro,
> all you need is to save the XML file in UTF-8 format.
>
> For example in the Notepad:
> Save As ==> Format ==> UTF-8.
>
> Dmitry
> f-source.com
>
> >
> > Some days ago I sent to you an email with this same problem, and yet I
did not solve it because you didn't answer me properly.
> > Problem:
> > I want to put some special characters in a xml like '%uFFFD' or
'%uFFFD'.
> > I have already tried your FAQ notes and couldn't manage to solve this.
> > Here are the URL's:
> >

http://www.casadocalhaugrande.com/contactos.html
> >

http://www.casadocalhaugrande.com/menu.xml

> > Please, try to help me fast because I can't put that page online too
much time that way.
> >
> > Regards
> > Pedro Gouveia
> >

Using Microsoft Expresison Web (without Dreamweaver)

Hi,
in fact f-source menu is just HTML code + SWF file.

You need dreamweaver to generate the files, but you can edit the menu
in any text/html editor.

If you don't have dreamweaver I can generate and send you the files.

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

>
> Do any of your menus work with Microsoft expression web or can I
use them without Dreamweaver?
>

How to use Google Custom Search

How can I replace the standard search box in the Macromedia-style
menu with a Google CSE Search Box? Thanks for your help!


Answer:



Hi,
for example you have the google custom search code:

<!-- Google CSE Search Box Begins -->
<form id="searchbox_015076957661366469059:4-chnwqi44u"
action="http://www.google.com/cse">
<input type="hidden" name="cx" value="015076957661366469059:4-chnwqi44u" />
<input type="hidden" name="cof" value="FORID:0" />
<input name="q" type="text" size="40" />
<input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
<img src="http://www.google.com/coop/images/google_custom_search_smnarb.gif"
alt="Google Custom Search" />
</form>
<!-- Google CSE Search Box Ends -->

The menu search button must have the code:
a href="http://www.google.com/cse?cx=015076957661366469059%3A4-chnwqi44u
%26cof=FORID%3A0%26sa=Search%26q="

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

Installation using Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2

Hi Martin,
just give a name for the flash menu file in the SAVE FLASH ELEMENT
dialog window.
For example "menu.swf"

Dmitry
f-source.com

> I still can't get your product to work. After a little fiddling
> around, I managed to get those mxp files to open using an installer
> called Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit 2. So I went through the
> excruciating processing of unzipping every single folder and double-
> clicking every single mxp file. I thought I was installing your
> Business Drop-Down Menus correctly but now I'm not so sure. When I
> went to Dreamweaver to test it, I opened and named a fresh html doc,
> then went: INSERT/MEDIA/BUSINESS DROP DOWN MENU. Then I got a pop-up
> titled SAVE FLASH ELEMENT with an option to name the flash element and
> source it from my folders. But when I navigated back to my ALL_F-
> SOURCE_MENUS folder to choose one, I couldn't insert any of those
> options I've paid for. Again, they were all grayed out (unselectable).
> Shouldn't they be sitting in there as SWF or FLA files?
>
> How is this s'posed to work?
>
> Martin Vine
>
>
> On 25/03/2008, at 7:44 PM, f-source support, Dmitry wrote:
>
> > Hi Martin,
> > you need to have Extension Manager installed:
> > http://www.adobe.com/exchange/em_download/

> >
> > Each ZIP file contains separate menu MXP extension.
> > You will need to install them one by one.
> >
> > Regards
> > Dmitry
> > f-source.com
> >
> >
> >>
> >> I just bought the All Multi-domain Menus bundle for Mac OS10, but
> >> can't figure out how to install it. I've moved the downloaded
> >> folder (all_f-source_menus) into my Dreamweaver folder in
> >> Applications (not sure if that's what I'm s'posed to do???). In the
> >> folder I see a bunch of zip files and one called navguide.mxp. But
> >> there's no installation program that I can see. When I try clicking
> >> on the mxp file, it tells me I have no application which can open
> >> it. I'm not even sure whether that's what I need to do. I've
> >> contacted Apple but they can't help me figure this one out. I've
> >> now been wrestling with this for the better half of the morning.
> >> Please help.
> >>
> >> Martin Vine
> >>
>
>

"JScript" and "Javascript"

Hi,
I've checked your page.

You have a wrong type of script language:
<script language="JScript" type="text/jscript"
src="js/ActiveContentVertical.js"></script>

"JScript" and "Javascript" are different languages.

Try to set "Javascript".

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

>
> This works fine in Internet Explorer but not in Firefox. It says I
am missing a script in Firefox. Please help. I sent you this last week
and finally heard back. I put the wrong weblink. I am hoping to
resolve it today (it needs to be resolved asap).
>
>
>

http://www.somethingdifferent.tv/www/a-1quickservice.com/new/v02/

>

Drop downs are going behind the absolutely positioned graphics

Hi Sheron,
I've tested your pages in Firefox and IE6,
everything looks ok.

If you still have a problem with z-index, I recommend to put the DIV
id="f-source-menu" in another DIV with absolute position:

<div align="center" style="position:absolute; z-index:99; top:10px;
width:100%; left:0px;">
<div id="f-source-menu" style="position:relative;">

Regards
Dmitry
f-source.com

> Dmitry,
>
> Well i have the Vista Drop down Menu all working great - the only issue I am
> running into is the drop downs are going behind the graphics that are
> absolutely positioned on the sides of the sub pages.
>
> I work on a MAC and everything works perfectly but not on a PC running IE.
>
> I have played with the z-index but nothing is working - have you had anyone
> run into this issue? If so what did they do to fix it?
>
> Here is the site url:
> http://www.rainbowdance.com/newsite08/index.html

>
> The home page is fine - it is a one column fixed page. The issue is on all
> the rest of the pages which is a 3 column with the 2 side boxes absolutely
> positioned.
>
> I am going to attach the CSS also in case you need to look at it.
>
> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
> Sheron
>

> Sheron Post
> Purple Paw Design
> 4945 N. Valadez • Las Vegas, NV 89149
> ph: 702-656-4056 • fx: 702-656-5080
>
>
> Sheron,
> your page looks ok.
> XML is not SEO friendly, so if SEO is important for you,
> I recommend to use template or library item.
>
> Regards
> Dmitry
> f-source.com
>
>
> Dmitry,
>
> Thanks for all your help - I think it's working now it but if you wouldn't
> mind looking at it to make sure that would be great - here is the link to
> the test page:
> http://www.rainbowdance.com/test_menu.html

>
> The pages don't go anywhere yet except to the home page of the existing site
>
> I am a little confused on the navigation settings and putting them into an
> XML file
> - do you have to do that?
> - if so is a library item a better way to go?
>
> I will be placing the menu into a Dreamweaver template
>
> Any suggestions you have are greatly appreciated
> Thanks!
> Sheron
>
> Sheron Post
> Purple Paw Design
> 4945 N. Valadez • Las Vegas, NV 89149
> ph: 702-656-4056 • fx: 702-656-5080
>
>
> Hi,
> - yes you can add more buttons, edit the DIV id="menu", I recommend to
> start with a blank page, use these simple steps:
> http://f-source.com/flash-menus/good-practice/

>
> - use parameter showSearchField (Yes/No)
>
> - use parameter stretch_width_to: 1024px
>
> If you will have some problem, publish your test page and send me the link,
> I will help.
>
> Regards
> Dmitry
> f-source.com
>
> can I add more buttons - I need 8 buttons total - I don't need the search
> field.
> I also want the entire menu bar to be 1024 pixels wide - I can't seem to get
> it stretched to that size - do I have to increase the button height?