Adding delay to Fireworks popup menu?

My website reviewers complain that the menus open up too
quickly, often when they are only accidentally moving their mouse
over the menu bar. Is there a way to build in a delay to the menu,
so that the user has to hold the mouse over the menu item for a
second or two before the menu opens? If so, how?
Lisa

Show us the page after you have inserted the (*ugh*) menus,
please.
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"IdioC" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I have search and read the comments on Fireworks popup
menus do not work
>well
> in Dreamweaver 8 and mine is no exception. I was hoping
by now a solution
> is
> available since the post on this subject are not recent.
> I created a Nav bar in Fireworks 8 which works fine in
fireworks and the
> html
> works well by itself in DW 8 until I insert it into my
DW homepage. The
> page
> becomes significantly distorted and unusable.
> The welcome page I am editing is:
>
http://kanreikai.com/
>
> It has a top and bottom menu. The top menu appears fine
after I insert the
> fireworks code replacing the top menu bar but the bottom
menu becomes
> distorted
> with each tab on a seperate line.
>
> The screen capture of the page with the inserted
Fireworks code is here:
>
http://web.mac.com/zymurg/iWeb/Home%20Page/Picture1.png
>
> The Fireworks code is here:
>
http://web.mac.com/zymurg/iWeb/Home%20Page/nav/navbartop.htm
>
>
> I really need help and appreciate all I can get. Thank
ypu for your time
> on
> this.
> my email is
> [email protected]
>
>

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You have Dreamweaver, which is a wonderful and powerful
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> And any suggestions on how to fix it?
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Hi All,
I want to create popup menu using fireworks 8. I was able to
create basic simple popup menu.
I want to make popup menu in which when mouse is moved over
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I don't believe Alan suggested you buy anything, but if he
did, then
consider these free alternatives. The FW menus simple suck
large rocks....
Check the uberlink and MacFly tutorials at PVII -
http://www.projectseven.com/
and the Navbar tutorial/articles at Thierry's place
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"suzy_bcny" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Thanks Alan for your reply.
>
> But I donot want to buy anything else. I have already
bought fireworks8.
>
> I would just like to use fireworks8 for creating menu.
>
> Your suggestion in this will really help me. Thank you.
>
>
>

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> yes i have been back and forward with it all day. I have
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>
>
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>
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hope that anyone out there got some ideas in my issue. I was
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> I think it's a bug with ie7. It doesn't support
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> nor
> does it css.
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reliable
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> but I can't find one that I can use my own images, yet
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"udigrudi" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
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> I've had a similar problem, menus made in Fireworks 8
don't show up
> completely
> in ie7 for windows either. The menu shows up, but the
text of submenus
> with
> submenus doesn't show up.
>
> I think it's a bug with ie7. It doesn't support
javascript completely,
> nor
> does it css.
>
> Since your website has disappeared, I'm sorry I can't be
of more help.
> I'm
> thinking of getting a "third party" submenu generator
(but I can't find
> one
> that I can use my own images, yet)
>

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I was trying different things and ran across this issue, I
put a Fireworks CSS popup menu just above the thumbnails in the
gallery demo and when I tested it in IE7 (not sure about IE6 or
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Seems to work just fine in Firefox 2. just like IE to cause
CSS issues.
I put the sample up on the server, check it out here.
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thanks Jim

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when adding popup menues on text pane component then try to appeare it ,the textpane component appeare in front of the popup menue
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Customizing the DW Spry Menu Bar (tutorials)
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List-O-Rama (DW Extension)
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CSS Menu Maker (On-Line Menu Generator)
http://www.cssmenumaker.com/
Pop-Menu Magic2 by PVII (DW extension purchase)
http://www.projectseven.com/products/menusystems/pmm2/index.htm
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