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lunatic
February 23rd, 2005, 11:00 AM
howdy all,

Let me start off with the caveat that I know only enough about Fireworks to get me into trouble.

I had to create an intranet page for our group at work. They wouldn't let me do it in Flash so I had a half day crash course in Fireworks by another departments web guy on how to create a FW nav bar with several buttons, some with pop out menus, export it, then import it into a layer in DW and create a template. Easy enough.

Okay here is my problem. Four of the eight buttons have the pop out submenus that appear on rollover of the main button. They work great. BUT if you click on the main button itself, another page launches. In IE the page is a generic error page - "Cannot find server" "The page cannot be displayed" etc. In the Address bar it says "javascript:;". In FF it's just a blank untitled page.

Is there any way of getting rid of this? I've gone into the code in DW that is generated by FW and it's all macromedia/javascript stuff (I dont' know as JS either). I manually removed the onClick events but no go.

We really need to fix this problem - more and more people are calling me to report the error - like they deserve a medal for finding something no one else has noticed (as if I was unaware of the problem). :sure:

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

:hr:

RabBell
February 24th, 2005, 09:58 AM
gonna need to see some code lunatic :beam:

lunatic
February 24th, 2005, 11:22 AM
ick the code is awful. It's the crap MM generates when you transfer from FW to DW. While researching for a fix I came across a guy who wrote this long rant about how horrible FW pop up menus are and how much extra crap code they put into your file and I tended to agree with him.

Anyway, since my boss was bugging me for some kind of fix NOW NOW NOW I ended up just creating a separate page that listed links for all the items in the popup menu and made that the onPress page. So now if someone can't figure out how to use the popup menu and actually clicks on the button :sigh: they'll be taken to an actual html page that contains all the links.

Not a fix but a good enough patch.

Thanks for the offer to help Rab! :D

RabBell
February 24th, 2005, 05:30 PM
no probs, but just incase you need it...

http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/dropmenuindex.htm

:cool: