// Cascading Popup Menus v5.2 - Single Frame Menu example script. // If you're upgrading from v5.1, you can paste your existing menu data in, and if you're // upgrading from v5.0 you need to add 'cursor' settings to your ItemStyles. // // And before going ANY further, you must have READ and AGREE TO the script license! // It can be found on my site, in the syntax helpfile, or in the demo script document. // 'horizontal Bar' style: menu items that use this ItemStyle are 40px wide, have 10px gaps // between them, no popout indicator (the ">" in some menus) or popout indicator position, // 0px padding of the text within items, #336699 background colour, a hover colour of #6699CC, // 'highText' is the stylesheet class used for the menu text both normally and when highlighted, // no border styles, 'null' means fully opaque items (set them to numbers between 0 and 100 to // enable semitranslucency), and the 'hand'/'default' cursors are used for linked/submenu items. var hBar = new ItemStyle(40, 10, '', 0, 0, '', '10#CED5FD', 'highText', 'highText', '', '', null, null, 'hand', 'default'); // The 'sub Menu' items: these have popout indicators of "Greater Than" signs ">" 15px from their // right edge, and CSS borders. Text class also changes on mouseover. var subM = new ItemStyle(22, 0, '>', -15, 3, '#CCCCDD', '#6699CC', 'lowText', 'smhighText', 'itemBorder', 'itemBorder', null, null, 'hand', 'default'); // 'subBlank' is similar, but has an 'off' border the same colour as its background so it // appears borderless when dim, and 1px spacing between items to show the hover border. var subBlank = new ItemStyle(22, 1, '>', -15, 3, '#CCCCDD', '#6699CC', 'lowText', 'highText', 'itemBorderBlank', 'itemBorder', null, null, 'hand', 'default'); // The purplish 'button' style also has 1px spacing to show up the fancy border, and it has // different colours/text and less padding. They also have translucency set -- these items // are 80% opaque when dim and 95% when highlighted. It uses the 'crosshair' cursor for items. var button = new ItemStyle(22, 1, '>', -15, 2, '10#006633', '10#CC6600', 'buttonText', 'buttonHover', 'buttonBorder', 'buttonBorderOver', 80, 95, 'crosshair', 'default'); // Create a PopupMenu() object, and pass its own name so it can reference itself later on. // We also use a 'with' block to work with its properties and functions below. var pMenu = new PopupMenu('pMenu'); with (pMenu) { // Here's what the values in the next startMenu() command mean, in order: // 'root': the name of this menu. // false: orientated as a horizontal menu (true creates a vertical menu). // 10: the 'left' offset of this menu in pixels. // 0: the 'top' offset of this menu in pixels. // 17: the height of this menu (for vertical menus, this becomes the menu width). // hBar: the ItemStyle used to give this menu colours and layout/formatting. // '': this menu does not display within a frame (see the Frameset Example Script to do that). // false: this menu shows submenus on mouseover. 'true' means show on click. // // Most of the items are 'sm:' items popping out submenus, except the last 'js:' JavaScript command // to pop open a new window. I've also given each item a length in pixels, overriding the ItemStyle. //startMenu('root', false, 10, 0, 17, hBar, '', false); //'window.page.elmPos("home").x- menuW/2' startMenu('root', false, 'window.page.elmPos("home").x- (menuW-0)/2', 'window.page.elmPos("home").y+2', 17, hBar, '', false); addItem('Home', 'mHome', 'sm:', null, 80); addItem('About Us', 'mAboutUs', 'sm:', null, 80); addItem('Projects', 'mProjects', 'sm:', null, 80); addItem('Products', 'mProducts', 'sm:', null, 80); //addItem('Forum', 'mForum', 'sm:', null, 80); /*addItem('File', 'mFile', 'sm:', null, 40); addItem('Edit', 'mEdit', 'sm:', null, 40); addItem('Help', 'mHelp', 'sm:', null, 40); addItem('Visit My Site', 'window.open("http://www.twinhelix.com")', 'js:', null, 80); */ // Home sub menu startMenu('mHome', true, 0, 22, 80, subM, '', false); addItem('Home Page', '/', ''); //addItem('Forums', 'window.open("/forums");', 'js:'); addItem('My Blog', '/wordpress', ''); addItem('Edumed Home Page', '/products/edumed/', '', subM, 40); //addItem('JParks Design', '/our_design.php', '', subM, 40); // About us sub menu startMenu('mAboutUs', true, 0, 22, 80, subM, '', false); addItem('About Computer Magic', '/about_us.php', '', subM, 55); addItem('Portfolio', '/examples.php', ''); addItem('Services', '/tech_info.php', ''); addItem('Location', '/location.php', ''); addItem('Contact Us', '/contact_us.php', ''); // Projects sub menu startMenu('mProjects', true, 0, 22, 80, subM, '', false); //addItem('Quick Scan', '/projects/quick_scan.php', ''); addItem('Embedded Python', '/projects/dotnetpython/', '', subM, 40); addItem('College Courses', '/projects/college/', '', subM, 40); // Products sub menu startMenu('mProducts', true, 0, 22, 80, subM, '', false); //addItem('Products', '/products.php', ''); //addItem('2 Check Out', '/products/about_2checkout.php', ''); //addItem('Edumed', '/products/edumed/', ''); //addItem('Quick Scan', '/products/quickscan/', ''); //addItem('Web Spy', '/products/web_spy/', ''); //addItem('EZ Auction', '/products/ezauction/', ''); addItem('Web Hosting', '/wordpress/web-hosting', ''); // This is a vertical menu positioned 0px across and 22px down from its trigger, and is 80px wide. // The URLs are set to # here, be sure to replace them with your path/file names or JS functions! // Also note how the types are '', indicating these links open in the current frame/window. // The last item here changes its text on mouseover (^ separates the two strings), links to my site, // and has a custom ItemStyle and length specified so it's longer than the rest. //startMenu('mFile', true, 0, 22, 80, subM, '', false); //addItem('Open', '#', ''); //addItem('Save', '#', ''); //addItem('Reopen', 'mReopen', 'sm:'); //addItem('SWAP:Check for
Update...^Visit
TwinHelix', // 'http://www.twinhelix.com', '', subM, 38); // Here's some more example menus items that address common problems. Try these if you want: // // Navigate the whole current window to a page named 'file.html': // addItem('Open File', 'file.html', ''); // Open a page in a frame named "content": // addItem('Home', '/home/index.html', 'top.content'); // Run a JavaScript command to pop open a new window when clicked: // addItem('Catalog', 'window.open("/catalog.html")', 'js:'); // Use a custom ItemStyle you've created: // addItem('Text', 'file.html', '', button); // Make an item 200px long, overriding the default item size: // addItem('This contains lots and lots of text', 'file.html', '', null, 200); // How to open a submenu and also load a file when clicked: // with (addItem('Text', 'file.html', '')) sm = 'menuNameHere'; // Popout a submenu named 'mHelp', and give it a JavaScript click action: // with(addItem('Help', 'mHelp', 'sm:')) onclick='window.location.href="file.html"'; //startMenu('mEdit', true, 0, 22, 80, subM, '', false); //addItem('Cut', '#', ''); //addItem('Copy', '#', ''); //addItem('Paste', '#', ''); //addItem('Convert', 'mConvert', 'sm:'); // This 'mHelp' menu is aligned slightly left of its trigger (-10px). // Instead of using spaces to indent, consider 'text-indent' in the stylesheet class perhaps? // The last item is an example of adding extra optional parameters to the addItem() command. // It uses the subM ItemSyle (regardless of what the rest of this menu uses), is 22px long, // has 0px spacing after it, and a lesser-than-sign popout indicator positioned 3px from the left // edge of this item. Note that the parameters after the ItemStyle name are in the same order as // the ItemStyle command itself, and you can have as many as you want (e.g. background colours). //startMenu('mHelp', true, -10, 22, 80, subM, '', false); //addItem('    Contents', '#', ''); //addItem('    Search', '#', ''); //addItem('    About', 'mAbout', 'sm:', subM, 22, 0, '<', 3); // This is 85px across and 0px down... a horizontal popout. // Again these items have their own ItemStyles, and unique lengths / spacings between specified. //startMenu('mReopen', true, 85, 0, 120, button, '', false); //addItem('Recent Doc 1:
Schedule', '#', '', button, 35); //addItem('Recent Doc 2:
Cunning Plan', '#', '', button, 35, 5); //addItem('Etc. etc...', '#', '', subM); // This uses the subBlank ItemStyle which gives the items no borders when dim. The border around // the whole menu comes from a JavaScript function in the "Menu Effects" section. //startMenu('mConvert', true, 85, 0, 80, subBlank, '', false); //addItem('Windows', '#', ''); //addItem('Unix', '#', ''); //addItem('Macintosh', '#', ''); // Leftwards popout with a negative x and y relative to its trigger. The item has a custom height. //startMenu('mAbout', true, -85, -18, 80, subM, '', false); //addItem('Leftwards!
And up!', '#', '', subM, 40); // HIDE OR SHOW DELAYS (in milliseconds) can be customised. Defaults are: //showDelay = 0; //hideDelay = 500; // Specify hideDelay as zero if you want to disable autohiding, and showDelay as a couple of // hundred if you don't want the menus showing instantaneously when moused over. // HIDE MENUS ON DOCUMENT CLICK: Try uncommenting this, and perhaps set hideDelay to zero: //hideDocClick = true; // You can assign 'oncreate' events to specific menus. By default, the script has only one for // the root menu that shows it when it is created. You may wish to change it to something like the // following, which uses the animation function to show the menu, or delay its show altogether. //menu.root[0].oncreate = function() { pMenu.doVis('root', true) } // End of 'with (pMenu)' block. That's one menu object created! } // CREATE ANOTHER MENU OBJECT here if you want multiple menus on a page, or you can just // duplicate this entire file and rename 'pMenu' to something else. // Every menu object MUST have a menu named 'root' in it, as that's always visible. //var anotherMenu = new PopupMenu('anotherMenu'); //with (anotherMenu) //{ // startMenu('root', .....); // ... make menus here ... //} // ******************** MENU EFFECTS ******************** // // Now you've created a basic menu object, you can add optional effects like borders and // shadows to specific menus. You can remove this section entirely if you want, the // functions called are found at the bottom of this file. // BORDER: Added to all menus in a named object using a specified ItemStyle. The syntax is: // addMenuBorder(menuObject, ItemStyle, // opacity of border, 'border colour', border width, 'padding colour', padding width); // Opacity is a number from 0 to 100, or null for solid colour (just like the ItemStyles). addMenuBorder(pMenu, window.subBlank, null, '#666666', 1, '#CCCCDD', 2); // DROPSHADOW: added to specific ItemStyles again. The syntax is similar, but later on you // pass arrays [...] for each layer of the shadow you want. I've used two grey layers // here, but you can use as many or as few as you want. The syntax for the layers is: // [opacity, 'layer colour', X offset, Y offset, Width Difference, Height difference] // Opacity is from 0 to 100 (or null to make it solid), and the X/Y offsets are the // distance in pixels from the menu's top left corner to that shadow layer's corner. // The width/height differences are added or subtracted to the current menu size, for // instance the first layer of this shadow is 4px narrower and shorter than the menu // it is shadowing. addDropShadow(pMenu, window.subM, [40,"#333333",6,6,-4,-4], [40,"#666666",4,4,0,0]); addDropShadow(pMenu, window.subBlank, [40,"#333333",6,6,-4,-4], [40,"#666666",4,4,0,0]); // ANIMATION SETTING: We add this to the 'pMenu' menu object for supported browsers. // IE4/Mac and Opera 5/6 don't support clipping, and Mozilla versions prior to 1.x (such as // Netscape 6) are too slow to support it, so I'm doing some browser sniffing. // If you don't want animation, delete this entirely, and the menus will act normally. // Change the speed if you want... it's the last number, between -100 and 100, and is // defined as the percentage the animation moves each frame (defaults are 10 and 15). if ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:0.')==-1) && !(isOp&&!document.documentElement) && !(isIE4&&!window.external)) { pMenu.showMenu = new Function('mN','menuAnim(this, mN, 10)'); pMenu.hideMenu = new Function('mN','menuAnim(this, mN, -15)'); // Add animation to other menu objects like this... //anotherMenu.showMenu = new Function('mN','menuAnim(this, mN, 10)'); //anotherMenu.hideMenu = new Function('mN','menuAnim(this, mN, -15)'); } // ******************** FUNCTIONS CALLED BY THE EFFECTS SECTION ******************** // These can be deleted if you're not using them. Alternatively, if you're using several menu // data files, you may want to move them to the "core" script file instead. // This is the "positioning from page anchors" code used by the advanced positioning expressions. page.elmPos=function(e,p) { var x=0,y=0,w=p?p:this.win; e=e?(e.substr?(isNS4?w.document.anchors[e]:getRef(e,w)):e):p; if(isNS4){if(e&&(e!=p)){x=e.x;y=e.y};if(p){x+=p.pageX;y+=p.pageY}} if (e && this.MS && navigator.platform.indexOf('Mac')>-1 && e.tagName=='A') { e.onfocus = new Function('with(event){self.tmpX=clientX-offsetX;' + 'self.tmpY=clientY-offsetY}'); e.focus();x=tmpX;y=tmpY;e.blur() } else while(e){x+=e.offsetLeft;y+=e.offsetTop;e=e.offsetParent} return{x:x,y:y}; }; // Animation: // // Each menu object you create by default shows and hides its menus instantaneously. // However you can override this behaviour with custom show/hide animation routines, // as we have done in the "Menu Effects" section. Feel free to edit this, or delete // this entire function if you're not using it. Basically, make functions to handle // menuObj.showAnim() and .hideAnim(), both of which are passed menu names. // // Customisers: My lyr.clip() command gets passed the parameters (x1, y1, x2, y2) // so you might want to adjust the direction etc. Oh, and I'm adding 2 to the dimensions // to be safe due to different box models in some browsers. // Another idea: add some if/thens to test for specific menu names...? function menuAnim(menuObj, menuName, dir) { // The array index of the named menu (e.g. 'mFile') in the menu object (e.g. 'pMenu'). var mD = menuObj.menu[menuName][0]; // Add timer and counter variables to the menu data structure, we'll need them. if (!mD.timer) mD.timer = 0; if (!mD.counter) mD.counter = 0; with (mD) { // Stop any existing animation. clearTimeout(timer); // If the litNow() array doesn't show this menu as lit, and we're still showing it, // force a quick hide (this stops miscellaneous timer errors). //if (dir>0 && !menuObj.litNow[menuObj.menu[menuName][0].parentMenu]) dir = -100; // If the layer doesn't exist (cross-frame navigation) quit. if (!lyr || !lyr.ref) return; // This next line is not strictly necessary, but it stops the one-in-a-hundred menu that // shows and doesn't hide on very quick mouseovers. if (!visNow && dir>0) dir = 0-dir; // Show the menu if that's what we're doing. if (dir>0) lyr.vis('visible'); // Also raise showing layers above hiding ones. lyr.sty.zIndex = dir>0 ? mD.zIndex + 1 : 1001; // Alpha fade in IE5.5+. Mozilla's opacity (pre-v1.7) isn't well suited as it's an inheritable // property rather than a block-level filter, and it's slow, but uncomment and try it perhaps. // WARNING: This looks funny if you're mixing opaque and translucent items e.g. solid menus // with dropshadows. If you're going to use it, either disable dropshadows or set the opacity // values for your items to numbers instead of null. //if (isIE && window.createPopup) lyr.alpha(counter&&(counter<100) ? counter : null); // Clip the visible area. The syntax is: lyr.clip(left, top, right, bottom); // As you can see in these examples, three are static at either zero or the edge of a menu item, // and either the top or bottom is a complicated formula based on the 'counter' variable which // counts from 0 to 100 and back again; this give a nice accelerating-sliding animation. // Feel free to experiment with your own animations, here are some samples (use one only): // Straightforward downwards clipping animation (default setting): lyr.clip(0, 0, menuW+2, (menuH+2)*Math.pow(Math.sin(Math.PI*counter/200),0.75) ); // If you want, comment out the above line and enable this one to animate bottom-upwards: //lyr.clip(0, (menuH+2)-(menuH+2)*Math.pow(Math.sin(Math.PI*counter/200),0.75), menuW+2, menuH+2); // Another alternative: Move+clip sliding animation. Looks really cool :). //if (!counter) mD.origY = lyr.y(); //var newY = (menuH+2)-(menuH+2)*Math.pow(Math.sin(Math.PI*counter/200),0.75); //lyr.clip(0, newY, menuW+2, menuH+2); //lyr.y(mD.origY - newY); // Increment the counter and if it hasn't reached the end (counter is 0% or 100%), // set the timer to call the animation function again in 40ms to contine the animation. // Note that we hide the menu div on animation end in that direction. counter += dir; if (counter>100) { counter = 100; lyr.sty.zIndex = mD.zIndex } else if (counter<0) { counter = 0; lyr.vis('hidden') } else timer = setTimeout('menuAnim('+menuObj.myName+',"'+menuName+'",'+dir+')', 40); } }; // Borders and Dropshadows: // // Here's the menu border and dropshadow functions we call above. Edit ot delete if you're // not using them. Basically, they assign a string to pMenu.menu.menuName[0].extraHTML, which // is written to the document with the menus as they are created -- the string can contain // anything you want, really. They also adjust the menu dimensions and item positions // to suit. Dig out the Object Browser script and open up "pMenu" for more info. function addMenuBorder(mObj, iS, alpha, bordCol, bordW, backCol, backW) { // Loop through the menu array of that object, finding matching ItemStyles. for (var mN in mObj.menu) { var mR=mObj.menu[mN], dS='
'; else mR[0].extraHTML += dS+bordCol+'; left:0px; top:0px; width:'+mW+'px; height:'+mH+ 'px; z-index:980; '+ (alpha!=null?'filter:alpha(opacity='+alpha+'); -moz-opacity:'+alpha+'%; opacity:'+(alpha/100):'')+ '">'+dS+backCol+'; left:'+bordW+'px; top:'+bordW+'px; width:'+(mW-2*bordW)+'px; height:'+ (mH-2*bordW)+'px; z-index:990">
'; } }; function addDropShadow(mObj, iS) { // Pretty similar to the one above, just loops through list of extra parameters making // dropshadow layers (from arrays) and extending the menu dimensions to suit. for (var mN in mObj.menu) { var a=arguments, mD=mObj.menu[mN][0], addW=addH=0; if (mD.itemSty != iS) continue; for (var shad=2; shad'; else mD.extraHTML += '
'; addW=Math.max(addW, s[2]+s[4]); addH=Math.max(addH, s[3]+s[5]); } mD.menuW+=addW; mD.menuH+=addH; } };