Cross Frame Menu

[kmandal]

Hi

I am fairly new to cold fusion and would like to know if it is possible to
make cross frame menu in cold fusion . I like to make a menu that the top part
of the menu will be in one frame and when the user click on the menu the drop
down part of the menu will be in another frame of the web page . I am trying
with Microsoft Front page & Java Script and it did not work .
Any help is appriciated

Thank You

[Rustywater]

I don't know if this is what you mean, but I have an application that does
exactly that, but all you have to do is specify the target attribute of the <A
HREF....> tag for the frame in which you want the "submenu" displayed.

Eg. On your menu..

<a href="option1.cfm" target="mainframe">Option description</a>

Tanya

[Bighnaraj]

Hi,

I just stuck in creating a Cross Frame MEnu. Can anybody help me in this.


Thanks

[Murray *ACE*]

There is no practical way to make a layer (that's how drop-down menus work)
cross the boundary between two separate frames (i.e., two unique HTML
pages).

It is true. Your choices are limited now -

1. DUMP THE FRAMES - you would not be having this problem in a non-framed
site.
2. Redesign your menus so that they do not need to span a frame boundary.
3. Redesign the frameset so that you leave enough room for the largest
popup.
4. Move the layer code for the popups from the page in the navigation frame
to each page in the content frame.
5. DUMP THE FRAMES - you would not be having this problem in a non-framed
site.

I recommend either #1 or #5, depending on what your needs are. You just
have no idea the horrors that await you if you continue with the frames.....
8)


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"Bighnaraj" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I just stuck in creating a Cross Frame MEnu. Can anybody help me in this.
>
>
> Thanks

[byardaj]

I have a modified version of the FireWorks menu.js that allows Murray's #4 suggestion if you want it, I did this ages ago before I realised points #1 and #5

Andy

[Murray *ACE*]

And before you realized how bloody awful the FW menus were, and what a nasty
solution it is to move the layers into the content frame?

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"byardaj" <andybyard@mac.com> wrote in message
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>I have a modified version of the FireWorks menu.js that allows Murray's #4
>suggestion if you want it, I did this ages ago before I realised points #1
>and #5
>
> Andy

[byardaj]

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
And before you realized how bloody awful the FW menus were, and what a nasty
solution it is to move the layers into the content frame?


Murray
We used our code for generating FW menus on about a dozen intranet web
applications and we found them to be quick and easy to use (i.e. once the code
was written setting up a menu was just a case of populating a database with
menu options), in hindsight it would have been easier to ditch frames and not
have to mess about with cross frame stuff.
We have now changed technology from .ASP to Java/XLM/XSLT so maybe its time to
switch to a better menu system.
My problem is that I have to justify to my boss why the change is necessary?
Can you give me a few bullet points as to why something like the projectseven
menus are so much better.
Any comments gratefully received.
Regards
Andy

[Murray *ACE*]

[url]http://apptools.com/rants/jsmenu.php[/url]
[url]http://apptools.com/rants/menus.php[/url]

The PVII menus are like tiny little grains compared to the monstrous size of
the FW menus. This is particularly true with the FW8 menus - I looked at a
page not long ago that had nearly 3000 lines of CSS, *ALL* related to the
pop-up menus. And, to try to troubleshoot that byzantine markup just gives
me the willies....

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"byardaj" <andybyard@mac.com> wrote in message
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> Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
> And before you realized how bloody awful the FW menus were, and what a
> nasty
> solution it is to move the layers into the content frame?
>
>
> Murray
> We used our code for generating FW menus on about a dozen intranet web
> applications and we found them to be quick and easy to use (i.e. once the
> code
> was written setting up a menu was just a case of populating a database
> with
> menu options), in hindsight it would have been easier to ditch frames and
> not
> have to mess about with cross frame stuff.
> We have now changed technology from .ASP to Java/XLM/XSLT so maybe its
> time to
> switch to a better menu system.
> My problem is that I have to justify to my boss why the change is
> necessary?
> Can you give me a few bullet points as to why something like the
> projectseven
> menus are so much better.
> Any comments gratefully received.
> Regards
> Andy
>

[byardaj]

Thanks Murray
Some good points raised in those two articles (so I'm not the only person who
dislikes the I-beam cursor in menus rendered in Firefox) I think I'll have a go
with the simple VII menus... just one point... do they work across frames
(joke!).
Andy

[Murray *ACE*]

I'm not laughing (although I did a slight snort). 8)

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"byardaj" <andybyard@mac.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Murray
> Some good points raised in those two articles (so I'm not the only person
> who
> dislikes the I-beam cursor in menus rendered in Firefox) I think I'll have
> a go
> with the simple VII menus... just one point... do they work across frames
> (joke!).
> Andy
>