What tool is used to create menu, is it GPL or custom made by CMSMS? And ..?

[bongobongo]

Hi.

1.
The script that you use to create menus, either fixed or drop-down....... are they custom made by CMSMS or is
it a GPL tool?
Is this menu working in Safari.

Where can I find out more about how it is designed and what browsers are compatible with it... and if developed outside
CMSMS house then who made it?


2.
Are CMSMS working in Safari, or do you need to use Firefox on a MAC to make it work there?

[Ted]

I'm a Mac user and use Safari pretty regularly (though, I tend to stick with Firefox most of the time).

1. The menu manager system was made by us.  None of the included menu templates do any kind of javascript tricks, except for the cssmenu one (the dropdown), which has one javascript hack for IE.  It works fine in Safari.

2. The admin also works fine in Safari.  There is a slight bug in 0.13 with the dropdown menus, but the resulting fix (which is svn now) is here: http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... 186.0.html

[bongobongo]

Thanks for answering... BUT..

Maybe I asked the wrong question regarding the menu.

I understand the MenuManager as the tool to manage the menus in the admin section....

I'm asking about the underlying code that actually displays the menu in the page/site....

The code that generate the menu in the actual page/site......

is that code made by CMSMS or is it a GPL or similar script found on the www?

Where can I find the source code creator and source code for the drop-down menu as well as the other menu generating code?

Regards

[Dr.CSS]

well ted
i think he might be talking about the way the MenuManager.module.php and the action.default.php work together so seamlessly to find all the pages and put them in the order that is set when you create pages and move them up and down in Content>Pages mode and how they know where to look for and order them on a page as a menu.
i thought they wanted code that shows the menu as in the CSS/dropdown that has....
display:none    then
display:block

and makes the 'flyouts'.......

wish i knew how make something to search a folder and make an that looks like this,,



  Vacation Gallery
   
     
       
       
     
     
       
       
     
      etc. etc....


it would be perfect, as it is the list will have to be made by hand, i'm going to drop it in the source view of the this box and see if it works,,

from this page    http://www.multiintech.com/index.php?page=image_gallery

  mark

  BTW isn't "CMS made simple is Free software under the GNU/GPL licence." @ the bottom of this page ? does that make the MenuManager the same licence?

[calguy1000]

bongobongo:

The menus are built from the page heirarchy in the Content >> Pages menu.  Do you notice that you can change the parantage, and order of each individual page in the heirarchy, this is how you define your menu structure. 

The menus are essentially just nested unordered lists with css style names applied to them (there are a few more tricks, but mostly that's it).  The menumanager is just a module that reads the page heirarchy, and generates lists based on an (editable) template that you provide.  It's beautiful in its simplicity actually.

The colours, and the behaviour for active, and hover, etc, are all done in CSS.

And yes, the menumanager and the page heirarchy stuff is all licensed under the GPL.

[Ted]

The dropdown menu "theme" itself was created for a module called cssmenu about a year ago.  I don't know where the actual CSS came from or if it was created by the author itself, but the cssmenu module (and it's css) were released under the GPL as well.  When menu manager came about and we reused the cssmenu elements, it became GPL as well.

In other words, I don't believe there are any kind of licensing issues here.