NorCascade - Another Automatic Cascading Menu for Actinic 5 or 6

[ewolff]

Is there any wat to do that without going in and writing the code for each subsection?

[NormanRouxel]

Eric,

Are you writing about NorCascade or NorTree? As there are now several conversations going on here simultaneously could you let me know exactly what you need to achieve.

Ta . . . Norman

[ewolff]

I am using NorCascade. The store I am developing has eight main categories. Some of the categories have a long name (Aquatic Supplies) and some are small (Apparel). I would like to be able to specify the width for each of the top level cells so the nav bar is not so big. I would pont you to an example of what I am working on, but it is on a server behind a firewall which does not allow outside access.

[NormanRouxel]

I assume you have a horizontal layout of the top-level cells and want to make some of them smaller when they contain less text.

Unfortunately the way these menus are generated requires all cells at the same level to be the same size.

Norman

[NormanRouxel]

Auto Width of Horizontal Menus

Actually It can be done but you'll need to patch the JavaScript.

In your Site folder (usually site 1) edit norcascade_pop_tail.js

look for the line

    var link = urls[I].sURL;

Add the following code underneath it.

    // Auto Width of Horizontal Menus patch
    if ( (! orientation) && AutoWidth )
      {
      var thistext = names[I].sName.replace(/&#\d+;/g,"-");  // replace escape sequences with minus
      var numchars = thistext.length;
      LineHeight = Math.floor((CharWidth * numchars) + Buffer);
      }


Save that file.


Run NorCascade

In Advanced / Extra Vars add the lines.

var CharWidth = 7;       // width of a character in pixels 
var AutoWidth = true;  //  true enables auto width or false disables
var Buffer = 15;           // padding to add to all lines


Now do Save Settings / Create Vars and you should have auto width horizontal menus.

You can adjust the character spacing by setting CharWidth higher or lower.  Fractional values are OK.

Buffer add some extra spacing to allow for navigation icons.  Use integer values.

You can turn off the feature by setting AutoWidth to false

Norman

[ewolff]

You are the man. If I lived near you, I'd buy you a beer.

Thanks for the help.

[NormanRouxel]

NorCascade Update.

I've now added the Auto Size option for horizontal menus to the download. You can now configure via the GUI it for each menu level. See www.rouxel.cwc.net/actinicstuff.html for the update info.


Norman