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RE: navigation menu control-a new twist

I got this working now. Thank you Jacek and Randy for you inputs. Now I
have another question. I need to display a different image for different
menu. So I need an extra configurable property such as style or class or
image, what ever. Can I extend the current menu implementation object
and change configuration to use the new object? If it is doable, which
file I should change to configure it to use my extended menu?  Or if
there is an existing better way? Or does jetspeed plan to add a support
for user defined attribute (such as name value pairs) some what like
this:
<menu name="left-column" options="/" depth="0" paths="false"
regexp="false">
         <title>RootTitle</title>
         <separator>
             <text>Separator</text>
         </separator>
         <properties>
                <name1>value1</name1>
                <name2>value2</name2>
         </properties>
...
</menu>

Thanks,

Yiguang

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacek Wislicki [mailto:jacek.wislicki@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 5:40 PM
To: Jetspeed Users List
Subject: Re: navigation menu control

Wiadomosc od Hu, Yiguang z 2006-05-17 23:20 brzmiala:

> Thank you, Jacek,
> So do I have to repeat the menu structure under a sub-folder? 
> For example: If am in /folder_02 which contains folder_02_01 and
folder_02_02 So the menu under /folder_02 would be like the following
and similar to other folders?
No, you don't. It will work without this.

> Thanks for your patient. I really appreciate it.
:)

-- 
pozdrawiam,
     Jacek Wislicki

jacek.wislicki@gmail.com
tel.: +48 502 408 444
gg: 2540358
skype: jacek_wislicki

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Re: navigation menu control-a new twist

Posted by Randy Watler <wa...@wispertel.net>.
Menu, options, separators, etc. have an attribute called "skin". This is
a generic field that is not used by J2 that can be used for this or
similar purposes. IIRC, skins for options and separators are inherited
from the menu, as are nested menu skins.

These same elements also have metadata. One can add their own locale
specific metadata to the PSML. This is the closest thing to properties
as you describe.

Because skin and metadata are available, no additional PSML syntax will
be added. See the PSML, declarative menu information, and javadoc APIs
on the site for more details.

Randy

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 22:37 +0200, Jacek Wiślicki wrote:
> Wiadomosc od Hu, Yiguang z 2006-05-19 22:32 brzmiala:
> 
> > I got this working now. Thank you Jacek and Randy for you inputs. Now I
> > have another question. I need to display a different image for different
> > menu. So I need an extra configurable property such as style or class or
> > image, what ever. Can I extend the current menu implementation object
> > and change configuration to use the new object? If it is doable, which
> > file I should change to configure it to use my extended menu?  Or if
> > there is an existing better way? Or does jetspeed plan to add a support
> > for user defined attribute (such as name value pairs) some what like
> > this:
> > <menu name="left-column" options="/" depth="0" paths="false"
> > regexp="false">
> >          <title>RootTitle</title>
> >          <separator>
> >              <text>Separator</text>
> >          </separator>
> >          <properties>
> >                 <name1>value1</name1>
> >                 <name2>value2</name2>
> >          </properties>
> In my decorator there are special CSS classes defined. But if you need 
> more than a few images (represented by CSS classes), you should use some 
> extra Velocity logic.
> 


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Re: navigation menu control-a new twist

Posted by Jacek Wiślicki <ja...@gmail.com>.
Wiadomosc od Hu, Yiguang z 2006-05-19 22:32 brzmiala:

> I got this working now. Thank you Jacek and Randy for you inputs. Now I
> have another question. I need to display a different image for different
> menu. So I need an extra configurable property such as style or class or
> image, what ever. Can I extend the current menu implementation object
> and change configuration to use the new object? If it is doable, which
> file I should change to configure it to use my extended menu?  Or if
> there is an existing better way? Or does jetspeed plan to add a support
> for user defined attribute (such as name value pairs) some what like
> this:
> <menu name="left-column" options="/" depth="0" paths="false"
> regexp="false">
>          <title>RootTitle</title>
>          <separator>
>              <text>Separator</text>
>          </separator>
>          <properties>
>                 <name1>value1</name1>
>                 <name2>value2</name2>
>          </properties>
In my decorator there are special CSS classes defined. But if you need 
more than a few images (represented by CSS classes), you should use some 
extra Velocity logic.

-- 
pozdrawiam,
     Jacek Wislicki

jacek.wislicki@gmail.com
tel.: +48 502 408 444
gg: 2540358
skype: jacek_wislicki

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