Re: Re: How to extend StrutsMenu?

Sorry, this has been sitting in my inbox for awhile now. Can you please 
enter this as an enhancement request (or two) in Struts Menu?

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=48726&atid=453974

Thanks,

Matt

On Feb 1, 2005, at 1:52 PM, Ahmed Mohombe wrote:

>>> I would like to make this this for "velocity-nicetabs".
>>> Has someone any hints or idea how/where to make the changes?
>> Since you're using Velocity for your menu, you should be able to 
>> alter the template that you use for this menu.  You could add a 
>> "name" attribute to the item and then use that in the "id" attribute 
>> of your link.
> Sorry, but "globalMacros.vm" looks in now way similar(for me) to 
> what's generated :( , so I have no idea where and how "name" would fit 
> in there.
> The only place where it looks similar to the generated HTML is 
> "DisplayerStrings.properties".
> Velocity was just an example. However It would be good to know a 
> general solution. I looked in "AbstractMenuDisplayer.java", but I have 
> no idea how the ID would come there.
> It's embarrasing for me, but it seems I can't see the "big picture" of 
> how StrutsMenu works :(.
>
> There are a few usages of this extension to StrutsMenu:
> - in a lot of cases an ID or other attributes are required by the 
> project requirements.
> - Improved "menu activation": If the framework problem is solved, it's 
> a pice of cake to extend the javascripts to use the "body ID" or a 
> "DIV ID" in case an URL doesn't return the desired activation.
> This way, a Body/Div Id can alwyas be set in the page(as a last 
> backup), to ensure that the right menu will be activated if the URL 
> doesn't match. I found a lot of situations where the URL doesn't match 
> and cookies don't play well with submenus, so this would be a useful 
> improvement for the StrutsMenu framework IMHO.
>
>>> P.S. Is there a DTD for the menu config.xml (to allow xml editors to 
>>> check for the right syntax, and autocomplete for smarter editors :) 
>>> ) ?
>> No, not right now.  A few folks have submitted some, but they were 
>> just generated from their editors.  I do need to create one and hope 
>> to as part of the next release.
> Great :). I can't wait to use it in my IDE :).
> Runtime errors are not very pleasent, so if IDEs can detect errors 
> while one is editing, it's a great productivity/test improvement.
>
> Ahmed.
>
>
>
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