Dynamic menu

General description

A dynamically generated menu of arbitrary depth can be integrated in the site design. It is edited by the administrator through the browser in a special “Menu editor” module.

You can see current state of the main menu tree
(in XML-format) following the address
http://name of_your_site/Login/menu.xml
(for example, http://rudemo.fuzzle-cms.ru/Login/menu.xml ).

If you need to place more than one menu (for example, upper and lower), you can do this by binding each of them with one of the branches of the main tree.

Integration of the dynamic menu in the site design

To integrate a menu in the site design, you have to pass the following steps:
Step 1. To load the design-file template (.fla) with symbols of menu items, highlighted upon mouse pointing.
Step 2. To load AS3 XmlMenu class menu collector (horizontal two-level menu).
Step 3. In fla-template in the first frame

hookup the menu and indicate its location

var menu:XmlMenu = new XmlMenu("/Login/menu.xml");
menu.x=50;
menu.y=960;
addChild(menu);

var menu:XmlMenu = new XmlMenu("/Login/menu.xml?rootId=ÕÕÕ");
//ÕÕÕ – node id (is determined by the current state of 
//the main menu tree)

In the result, the following menu will be integrated in the site:

Menu design adjustment

• Change of color and size of menu fonts
  To change menu fonts (color, size, etc.) edit symbols menu_mc (main items) and link_mc (subitems).

• Change of background and menu item indents
  Indents between menu elements are determined automatically, according to the sizes of symbols menu_mc and link_mc. If needed, you can enlarge the indents by extending the sizes of appropriate symbols, adding a rectangle with background in them. In the template such rectangle (symbol bg) have main items, but not subitems.

• Popup menu creation
  To create a popup menu you are enough to add in the menu code the second parameter equal to true
  

  var menu:XmlMenu = new XmlMenu("/Login/menu.xml", true);

• Menu of other configuration (vertical, linear)
  If you need to create a dynamic menu of other configuration, you have to rewrite AS3 class of the menu collector.