Menu and Links

[Marshall]

Hi.

My question is, I want to have one menu on the right and another one on the top with 4 links.
I now that for the menu class to show up in the right I have to position the menu in the code with the x and y position, but how can I put one on the top?
Can i use some kind of links and use the deep-linking to the pages that I want?

Finally this is one grate project and will help lots of designers out there.
Keep it up.

Best regards,
Marshall

[romu]

hi Marshall

Deep-linking will always be working as long as your pages are proper page node in the XML.

You'll probably have to change the code of the "normal" menu not to show some items and build another class (your top menu) that shows only the items you need. It shouldn't be hard if you're fine with AS3.

The simplest thing to is create a copy of the XML Site Definition in your menu classes and remove the nodes at run-time.

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var XMLAmended:XML = Soma.getInstance().content.data.copy();
// delete nodes I dont want to display


Or you can also add a custom page node property like @menuSelector and display only the items depending of the menu (using a E4X filter).

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<page id="my page 1" menuSelector="myTopMenu"...
<page id="my page 1" menuSelector="myOtherMenu"...


The links you can use to show a page from anywhere is:

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new PageEvent(PageEvent.SHOW, "myPageNodeID").dispatch();


And to retrieve the XML Site Definition:

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Soma.getInstance().content.data


Hope it helps.

Romu