Re: [Dynapi-Widgetdev] RE: RE: [Dynapi-Help] Widget test Image button menu

[David C. <dle...@ya...>]

Hey Ken,
  Some good stuff there.  Let me start out by
explaining the goal of the original widget.  I wanted
to be able to use the wipe.js to make the popup.js
appear when triggered by an image button (based on
buttonimage.js).  I wanted to use the popup.js as is
for compatibility purposes (have made changes now as
noted below).  Second, I wanted to have several
instances on the page that would not interfere with
each other.
Changes to popup.js:
  Altered the create listener to make it precreate
  added line to precreate listener to remove itself
NN6 has a real problem with execution speed when too
many listeners are active
  added lines to mouse item events to ignore submenu
items and blank items.

To address your comments (just why they are what they
are, not that they cannot be changed)
"Also, it seems unreasonable to to provide information
like menu depth and number of submenus when it has all
the info necessary to to figure that stuff out."
number of submenus:
  The structure is that it names the main menu (the
one with the effect) "menu" nad each submenu
"MenuSub[]" as part of an array.  This uniform naming
allows the resizing and assigning of submenus to be
done with just a number.  I could have assigned the
submenus as they were initialized also.  That may be a
good change.
  The menu depth is left over code, not removed yet. 
The widget now calculates the total display width of
the menu system for the "trapping" layer.
Other items in the initial setup
  "items below main" I am working on having the widget
calculate this

I am having problems understanding what the goals of
your code are.  However I have just started looking at
it and will probably understand better after going
over it a few times.  If you have time, could you
write out what it is supposed to do?  Maybe the
fasttreenode.js or treenode.js is closer to what you
are trying to do?  They are available at Richard's
site under Richard's examples.
http://www.resass.f2s.com/dynapi/php/index2.php

For everyone else, we are discussing my image button
menu widget.  Viewable here:
http://www.merlinsworld.net/dynapi_ri_dcexamples/button_menu.html

Cheers
Dave C. "You Changed What?!?"

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