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Extended menu / Transmenu BlackBear 1.0 4 Years, 2 Months ago Karma: 1
First off BlackBear 1.x.x has got to be one of the best templates I've used, however I'm in a bit of a jam with submenus.

I have tried to use both Extended Menu and Transmenu 2.0 to create submenus but Extended Menu does not work at all for some reason. Transmenu is just dodgy and only works on topmenu without much hassle.

I have extended menu working on my old template at www.refinedvices.com (Hover mouse over Reviews).

Has anyone used Extended Menu on the BlackBear template? I would really love to get my submenus working. Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks.
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#580
Re:Extended menu / Transmenu BlackBear 1.0 4 Years, 2 Months ago Karma: 41
Hi,

We've used extended menu for a few clients but I don't think you can use it to create a TransMenu. It does have benefits over the default Joomla menu system and gives you many more parameters - have used it when we needed to have sub menus and additional control over the css.

I would look at swMenu for a quick and easy TransMenu.

Once you get it looking the way you want it make sure you export a CSS file from the config component and switch its mode to using an external CSS file - otherwise it will embed the CSS in every page of your site which is a bit inefficient...

The only downside is that it embeds the javascript into each page as well and there isn't an option to break this out into a seperate file - the benefit of which is that once loaded your browser would then cache this to and not download it for every page - unfortunately the jaascript is embedded but it's still agreat Joomla extesion and by far the easiest to setup.
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#591
Re:Extended menu / Transmenu BlackBear 1.0 4 Years, 2 Months ago Karma: 1
It works beautifully. I will post my website in the templateshowcase forum once I go live.
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#592
Re:Extended menu / Transmenu BlackBear 1.0 4 Years, 2 Months ago Karma: 1
Okay the menu works and the template worked beautifully on my standalone server but when I tried to use the template on the actual website all I get is white.

I have no idea how to fix it. I've read that one thread here where someone had the same problem but it didn't help much.

Any help is appreciated. I bet this is a really simple problem.



Code:

<?php defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' ); ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1- transiti...td">
<?php $iso = split( '=', _ISO ); echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="'. $iso[1] .'"?' .'>'; ?>
<html xmlns="www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; <?php echo _ISO; ?>" />
<?php mosShowHead(); ?>
<?php if ( $my->id ) { initEditor(); } ?>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; <?php echo _ISO; ?>" />
<link href="<?php echo $GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site]; ?>/templates/<?php echo $GLOBALS[cur_template]; ?>/css/layout.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<!--[if lt IE 7.]>
<script defer type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site];?>/templates/< ?php echo $GLOBALS[cur_template];?>/pngfix.js"> </script>
&lt;![endif]--&gt;<br><br>Post edited by: Silvio, at: 2008/03/01 19:44
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#594
Re:Extended menu / Transmenu BlackBear 1.0 4 Years, 2 Months ago Karma: 1
Okay now the template works. Sort of.

I replaced &quot;&lt;link href=&quot;&lt;?php echo $GLOBALS[mosConfig_live_site];?&gt;/templates/&lt; ?php echo $GLOBALS[cur_template]; ?&gt;/templates/blackbear/css/layout.css&quot; rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; type=&quot;text/css&quot; /&gt;&quot;

with

&quot;&lt;link href=&quot;templates/blackbear/css/ layout.css&quot; rel=&quot;stylesheet&quot; type=&quot;text/css&quot; /&gt;&quot;<br><br>Post edited by: Silvio, at: 2008/03/01 21:51
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Re:Extended menu / Transmenu BlackBear 1.0 4 Years, 2 Months ago Karma: 41
Is your live site in a subdirectory of the main domain name? Because if so you have to replace the path to the CSS as I think you have found.

&quot;Sort of&quot; working doesn't sound so good...

Can you link in the live site so I can see what's going on?
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Re:Extended menu / Transmenu BlackBear 1.0 4 Years, 2 Months ago Karma: 1
Big Bear wrote:
Is your live site in a subdirectory of the main domain name? Because if so you have to replace the path to the CSS as I think you have found.

&quot;Sort of&quot; working doesn't sound so good...

Can you link in the live site so I can see what's going on?

My live site is at /htdocs/xxx
The layout.css is at /htdocs/xxx/templates/blackbear/css/layout.css
I'm not sure where to put the path though.

Here is the live site: www.refinedvices.com/<br><br>Post edited by: Silvio, at: 2008/03/01 23:41
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Re:Extended menu / Transmenu BlackBear 1.0 4 Years, 2 Months ago Karma: 41
It's looking good here - I think you must have the correct CSS path.

I really like what you have done with the template :)
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#654
Re:Extended menu / Transmenu BlackBear 1.0 4 Years, 2 Months ago Karma: 1
I just noticed something with the SWMenu Free that I'm using now. The submenu opens correctly to the right of the mainmenu with the resolution 1280x1024 but with smaller resolutions the submenu opens over the main menu. I don't know about larger resolutions as my screen only supports 1280x1024. Have any of you bumbed into similar issues or is it just me?
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#656
Re:Extended menu / Transmenu BlackBear 1.0 4 Years, 2 Months ago Karma: 41
It's doing the same thing for me at lower res.

What I have learnt about transmenu (sw menu) is that all the enclosing DIV's have to have position static applied to them.

I set this up for the top menu but not the left or user1 module.

What you can try is going into the template css and adding:

Code:
position:«»static;


to all the DIV classes that are wrapped around the one your menu is in - this includes #left, #container, #innerContainer, etc

Not sure if it will break the layout :(
but you will need position:static; for the menu to align correctly.
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#901
Re:Extended menu / Transmenu BlackBear 1.0 3 Years, 11 Months ago Karma: 1
Thanks BigBear. I changed #left position to static and that worked.
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