Re: Re: How to extend StrutsMenu?

Whatever problems you'd like to see fixed. ;-)  I believe there might 
already be a bug for the missing DTD.

Matt

On Mar 24, 2005, at 2:40 AM, Ahmed Mohombe wrote:

>> 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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