Can we downgrade ezp3.5 JS popmenu to ezp 3.4 ?

Saturday 04 December 2004 5:55:24 am

Lazaro,

The JS menu is tightly bound to some php scripts which are optimiezd to work with 3.5-stuff, like for example the hide-feature. If you port the JS menu then you'll also have to backport the php scripts. This may (or may not) be a challange depending on how familiar you're with the internals of the system.

Balazs

Thursday 09 December 2004 3:57:06 am

Hi,

Just to say that we have backported EZP JS Popmenu to EZP 3.4.x with success

Lazaro
http://www.mzbusiness.com

Thursday 09 December 2004 8:06:33 am

AFAIK, you should be able to copy the JS code and use it without any modification. It doesn't use any ez publish functionality directly, it is just optimized for usage with eZ publish.

Friday 10 December 2004 4:31:23 am

Ah, sorry.. I thought you were talking about the treemenu, not the popupmenu itself.. of course, the popupmenu is totally independent of the rest and should be pretty much portable. The treemenu would (as I pointed out) require more effort.

Balazs

Friday 10 December 2004 8:23:37 am

Frederik,

The problem is that we have used Javascript event property onmouseover to attach ezpopmenu_showTopLevel routine (instead of registering in HTML event attribute onMouseover), we have done this way to keep code of both templates separate, this way we only add an include statement after ezp left menu tpl loop is finished

<script language="JavaScript1.2" type="text/javascript">
		aelement = document.getElementById( '{$anchor}{$cm.id}' );
		aelement.onmouseover = function() {literal}{ezpopmenu_showTopLevel( event, 'ChildrenMenu{/literal}{$cm.id}{literal}'); return false;}{/literal};
</script>

Calling ezpopmenu_showTopLevel from Mozilla produces the following error :

Error: event is not defined

no popupmenu is showed

IE does not report any error and shows the popupmenu

Lazaro
http://www.mzbusiness.com

Friday 10 December 2004 8:45:06 am

Yep, this is most probably the reason. I didn't include this since all browsers include the event when calling the function from HTML. I'll take a look at this on monday. Thanks for reporting.

Thursday 16 December 2004 10:14:13 am

Frederik,

Sorry!, at last popupmenu code was ok, was my problem registering a handler function without the event parameter, see the piece of JS code above, now the code works ok, because we have included the event parameter a function definition

<script language="JavaScript1.2" type="text/javascript">
		aelement = document.getElementById( '{$anchor}{$cm.id}' );
		aelement.onmouseover = function(e) {literal}{ezpopmenu_showTopLevel( e, 'ChildrenMenu{/literal}{$cm.id}{literal}'); return false;}{/literal};
</script>

On the other hand, AFAIK popupmenu functions only pass the event parameter to

ezjslib_mouseHandler( e )

function that in turn actually has the

if ( !e )
    {
        e = window.event;
    }

check for IE compatibility

I have tested and it is working ok for both Mozilla Firefox, and IE 6

Thanks!

Lazaro
http://www.mzbusiness.com