Custom Popup Menu in Fireworks 8

Hi there,
I have been trying for about a week to create my own custom
popup without using the popup wizard. I would like to do this
because I want to make it transparant and add a little bit more to
it. Anyway, I cant seem to make my menu stay put while I rollover
the button it disappears. How do I make the menu stay put while I
rollover the button? I have made many popups in Flash but id really
like to do it in Fireworks 8. I was told it may have something to
do with using a hotspot, but Im not real sure how to go about it.
Is this possible? If so please help me out.

http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/snapmenus/index.htm
or
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/navigation/auto_hide/index.htm
and here's an example you can analyze -
http://www.projectseven.com/tutorials/autolayers/
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"Duder29er" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Hi there,
> I have been trying for about a week to create my own
custom popup without
> using the popup wizard. I would like to do this because
I want to make it
> transparant and add a little bit more to it. Anyway, I
cant seem to make
> my
> menu stay put while I rollover the button it disappears.
How do I make the
> menu
> stay put while I rollover the button? I have made many
popups in Flash but
> id
> really like to do it in Fireworks 8. I was told it may
have something to
> do
> with using a hotspot, but Im not real sure how to go
about it. Is this
> possible? If so please help me out.
>

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Popup Menu in Fireworks 8

Hi All,
I want to create popup menu using fireworks 8. I was able to
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I want to make popup menu in which when mouse is moved over
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stays into changed image till pop up menu is poped out. when popup
menu is close root image changes to original image.(same as
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Thank you.

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
http://tjkdesign.com/articles/dropdown/
Or this one (more recent article):
http://tjkdesign.com/articles/Pure_CSS_Dropdown_Menus.asp
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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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Hi,
I have two questions.
1) Could anyone give me an example how to create my own popup menu by
clicking the right mouse button over an item.
2) Does anybody know how to disable the border an the background of a
graphic ring item. I what to display different transparent gifs and now
the border is very disturbing and there should also bo no visible
background(-color).
thanxs,
Max

1. An article on this was in LTR some time ago, check it out at:
http://ltrpub.com/insideltr/articles/article_27/article_27.htm
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hi, i made a popup menu in fireworks, and when i open that
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popup menu area, so that i cant type anything under the menu or
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You have Dreamweaver, which is a wonderful and powerful
program for building HTML. So
why are you trying to build a navigation menu in Fireworks,
which is a graphics program? Please. I beg you! Save yourself hours
of headaches: create your graphics in Fireworks and your HTML in
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For example, this code would be impossible to maintain.
Here's one of your navigation items:
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stages of your development process and wonder why you couldn't get
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As for that "big white box," it's a combination of the div
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I have no idea what the div CSS is doing, but if I comment it
out and take out the 100% width attribute on the table, then I get
something that behaves more reasonably. FWTableContainer1329034333
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some place else and who knows what it is.
My point is, that by letting Fireworks write bad code for
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Popup menu.

Sir,
I have create popup menu in fireworks and export as html in dreamweaver but every time when i have make any change in menu when add some thing in menu or delete in menu and when i have export html each time it will change containeer id and the link which i have defined will not work.
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Rajeev:
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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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> Not sure if can be made under LV 6 but under LV 5.0 you can disable
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>
> Another option is to put a transparent decoration over your control,
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>
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> I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to customize the right click
> popup menu in/for Labview.
>
> I am build a vi with a graph on which you can right click, bring up a
> menu, select an item, and the graph will display a cursor at that
> location with the label you selected from the right clic
k popup menu.
>
> I would be grateful for any insight you might have into this.

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Hi,
hope that anyone out there got some ideas in my issue. I was
already searching the forum for advice, but couldn't find
meaningful infos.
Here is my problem:
I designed a page in FW8 (Mac) with a nice popup-menu. I
exported this thing into DW8 having set the option to export the
menu as CSS and slices to layers. Then I rearranged the html File
and included some editable regions, as it was to be used as an
template.
Everything works fine in Firefox but IE7 and Safari
experience some problems.
The popup-layers are displayed behind the main text-area and
not in front of it - this makes navigation a bit complicated.
So teh menu is displayed with text and everything, but behind
the main text.
What I tried:
I tried to reset the z-Index of the popup-layers to values
below 10 (were set to 500) - didn't help.
I gave every single item a z-index - didn't help.
I gave the main text area an z-index of 0 or -1 - made the
layer disappear.
I reexported the whole thing - made me just crazy.
I worked through the css file for errors - maybe I'm not to
good in CSS ;)
I checked the forums, but could only find issues where the
menu was not displayed at all or the text was missing - doesn't
apply.
-- no more ideas :(
Link to my page:
Website
Link
I really appreciate your help! Any comments welcome!
patrick

> I think it's a bug with ie7. It doesn't support
javascript completely,
> nor
> does it css.
I don't think this is accurate. Each browser supports things
differently,
and CSS is no exception, but support for javascript is fairly
reliable
across the board.
> but I can't find one that I can use my own images, yet
Then you are not looking in the right place. Go here -
http://www.projectseven.com/
and examine their extensive collection of menu products.
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"udigrudi" <[email protected]> wrote in
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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
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older) the thumbnails show through the menu when it pops up?
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

Have you tried giving the menu a higher z-index via CSS?
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