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Initial Email From: Guy
Initial Email Subject: sub menu transitions
Support Case Month: May 2013

Hi,

I have AllWebMenus 5.3 and want to know if there's a feature to speed up or slow down the rate at which a submenu appears.

I look forward to receiving your reply.

Kind regards,

Guy

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Hello Guy,

I am afraid that the appearance delay is what you can change, not the speed:

Sorry about this.

Best Regards,
Kostas
Likno Customer Support
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Initial Email From: User
Initial Email Subject: delay menu
Support Case Month: October 2012

Can I load this menu with a delay? I mean when the page has finished loading the menu to appear?

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Sure, just check this in the Project Properties:

Regards,
Kostas
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Initial Email From: Erik
Initial Email Subject: delay menu items
Support Case Month: April 2012

Hello,

Is there a way I can corporate a delay in my menu items like the attached link: http://www.templatemonster.com/demo/31444.html

Thanks

Erik.

Related URL: http://www.templatemonster.com/demo/31444.html

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Dear Erik,

Assuming you refer to the submenu opening delay, you can do this from here:

Regards,
Kostas
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Reply From: Erik

Hello Kostas,

I was more interested in the background picture. The way it is delayed from right to left if you hover over the menu.

Erik

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Dear Erik,

I am afraid that this effect cannot be recreated in AllWebMenus. You can, if you want, run some JavaScript code every time the mouse moves over a menu item, so I guess you could use some external (or custom) code that just changes the background image and call it from AllWebMenus.

Regards,
Kostas
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Reply From: Erik

Thank you for your quick response.

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Initial Email From: Cary
Initial Email Subject: vertical lines separating menu
Support Case Month: July 2012

Hi Kostas,

I have one last request. I just need to space out the main menu options on top. What would you suggest to be the best way to do this?

Thanks
Cary

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Dear Cary,

Actually I checked your menu again and I see that it is pretty wide already! It is so wide (although transparent) that it creates a horizontal scrollbar to your site:

I assume that this happens because you set it to “Menubar” (so it takes the width of the page):

My suggestion is that you remove the “Menubar” setting, and instead just give it the size you want using the “minimum width”:

Also, a final suggestion regarding your Positioning. First, find the following code in your page (where the Positioning Anchor is contained):

<td width=200 valign="middle">

<center><a href="/Products.asp?t=Products" class="redlink">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img src="/demo/dotb.gif" border="0"><font face="arial" size="1" color="black"><span id='awmAnchor-conestmenu'>&nbsp;</span></a><b>PRODUCTS</b> &nbsp; &nbsp;</center></td>

And change it into this:

<td width=200 valign="middle" id='awmAnchor-conestmenu'>

<center><a href="/Products.asp?t=Products" class="redlink">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img src="/demo/dotb.gif" border="0"><font face="arial" size="1" color="black"></a><b>PRODUCTS</b> &nbsp; &nbsp;</center></td>

So that the menu is attached to the <td>. Then go to the AllWebMenus Positioning and do something like this:

Of course you can adjust the offsets accordingly…

Regards,
Kostas
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Reply From: Cary

Good idea. I’ll see what it does. Also, why is the dropdown menu skewing off to the left? Is there any way to center it under the group choices?

Cary

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Dear Cary,

Check these three properties for the submenu.

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Kostas
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Reply From: Cary

Is there any way that I can make the dropdown menus more responsive on the mouse over? There are times when it takes a few passes over the menu choice before the drop down appears. We can’t afford to have our customers play mouse games to access any menu features.

Thanks
Cary

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Dear Cary,

I see that your submenus disappear too quickly and sometimes you have to be quick to move the mouse over them.

To fix this you need to put some delay on the “Disappears How” feature, and maybe also bring the submenus closer to the main menu items (they have a couple of pixels empty space between them.

Regards,
Kostas
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Reply From: Cary

Thanks. What would I change to bring the submenus closer?

Cary

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Dear Cary,

Try “appears where” (of which I sent a screenshot two mails ago).

Note: I strongly recommend that you take some time to skim through the different application properties.

This way you will have a general idea of what you can do and where to find it.

Regards,
Kostas
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Reply From: Cary

Thanks again. Found it right after I emailed you. Hopefully that will do the trick.

Cary

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Initial Email From: John
Initial Email Subject: Megamenu behaviour
Support Case Month: April 2012

Hi Kostas,

Me again. I'm working on a horizontal menu with megamenus that drop down from each item. When testing this I found that when I move the cursor from one top-level item to another via the space of the dropdown (ie not along the top level menu, but inside the megamenu space), the old dropdown closes but the new dropdown does not appear. This occurs even if the megamenus are shifted down so that there is a gap between them and the top-level menu.

Bests

John

Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Dear John,

This is to let you know that we just uploaded a new AllWebMenus version which corrects the double-slash issue (and also has a great new feature called Image Sets):

http://www.likno.com/whatsnew.html

PS: We also changed our “what’s new” pages and some other things, so we did not have time to fix the “closing submenu” issue. Don’t worry, we’ll probably deal with this tomorrow.

Regards,
Kostas
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Reply From: Likno Customer Support

Dear John,

It seems that in your project you have set the submenus to appear instantly but hide after 200ms. This is what causes the problem, as when you move from a submenu to another main menu item, its submenu opens and then both submenus close after 200ms.

Unfortunately it seems that you cannot have a submenu opening before the previous one closes. So the solution is to make sure that the “Appears – How” has at least the same amount of delay time as the “Disappears – How”:

(you now have Appears: 0ms, Disappears: 200ms)

Regards,
Kostas
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