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?
Yes, of course, but for what problem? For the "body/div Id" problem or 
for the "missing DTD" ?

Ahmed.

> 
> 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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