Rob Hoffmann
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| Posted: 08/12/2003, 1:55 AM |
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Hi,
does anyone have any tips/best practices/hints/links for setting a good menu
structure in CCS applications? The CCS Application Builder generates simple
menu's, but I'm looking for something more Windows-like (e.g. pull-down).
Cheers, Rob.
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DonB
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| Posted: 08/12/2003, 5:51 AM |
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http://simplythebest.net has some good menu packages. Integrating them will
be a fair amount of work since they are not "data aware", that is if you
want them to be dynamically built from a datasource. A common practice is
to load the menu items into a text file that the menu code links to. This
way the menu content is separated from the menu code. I don't recall seeing
too many that work like that, however.
Given the template-driven nature of CCS, any HTML you can dream up could be
constructed entirely on the server and then pushed into a template variable
as the page gets sent to the browser. So this might be a good way to have
menus that are at least somewhat data aware.
A simplistic approach to "Windows-like" menus would be to establish a
consistent href naming scheme and build a static menu which incorporates <A>
tags using the hrefs to identify which menu was picked (for example, giving
them all a parameter like "?menu=x" where "x" is unique for each menu
choice.
DonB
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"Rob Hoffmann" <rob_hoffmann@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> does anyone have any tips/best practices/hints/links for setting a good
menu
> structure in CCS applications? The CCS Application Builder generates
simple
> menu's, but I'm looking for something more Windows-like (e.g. pull-down).
>
> Cheers, Rob.
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