Re: layer positioning

#1

i read the instructions, but i'm still unfamilliar with a lot of things--i do not have the onresize event--i'm trying to find out how to aquire it. any help would be appreciated.

#2

Open the page in DW. Click anywhere within it. Look at the Tag Selector
region (the status bar) on the bottom of the Document Window. Click on
<body>. Apply Snap. Now you will have both onLoad and onResize as events.
The events list is context sensitive. You will not get onResize as an
option unless you have selected something that could be resized.

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"ericwilmoth" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

i read the instructions, but i'm still unfamilliar with a lot of things--i
do not have the onresize event--i'm trying to find out how to aquire it. any

help would be appreciated.

#3

thank you--that totally solved it. i have one more question about this,
actually--our target audience for this site is profesional businesses that
would hopefully be using more moddern browsers, but just in case, i'm totally
ignorant of what i aught to do to provide an alternate soultion for other
browsers, since some don't support this snap feature. maybe i overlooked it in
the instructions for it, but i didn't really notice any obvious advice for this
sort of thing--i'm guessing they assume users already have a working knowledge
of this stuff. I'd like to avoid screwing myself with this if i can help it.

#4

Quote:

since some don't support this snap feature

I'm not aware of any contemporary or even moderately antique ones that do
not support Snap. What is much more of a concern would be if someone comes
to your site with javascript turned off. In this case, nothing would
work....

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"ericwilmoth" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

thank you--that totally solved it. i have one more question about this,
actually--our target audience for this site is profesional businesses that
would hopefully be using more moddern browsers, but just in case, i'm
totally
ignorant of what i aught to do to provide an alternate soultion for other
browsers, since some don't support this snap feature. maybe i overlooked
it in
the instructions for it, but i didn't really notice any obvious advice for
this
sort of thing--i'm guessing they assume users already have a working
knowledge
of this stuff. I'd like to avoid screwing myself with this if i can help
it.

#5

On 8/1/04 7:02 PM, in article cek0bd$9iu$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com,
"ericwilmoth" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote:

i have one more question about this, actually--our target audience for this
site is profesional businesses that would hopefully be using more moddern
browsers, but just in case, i'm totally ignorant of what i aught to do to
provide an alternate soultion for other browsers, since some don't support
this snap feature.

Provide links on the main menu items (the ones that trigger the snapped
layers) to individual menu pages, that use non-JavaScript HTML for menus.
That main menu item is still hot, even if the JavaScript rollovers and snaps
don't work. The crippled browser displays the finger pointer over each main
menu item. The visitor clicks the main menu button and is directed to a
separate menu page for each of the main menu buttons. Simplicity!

Unfortunately, many web designers don't even consider that there is any
other browser out there, than the one that they are using. You are to be
commended for even asking this question.

John Gaver
Action America
(forget everything to contact me direct)

Microsoft: (n) Job security for IT consultants.

#6

Quote:

I'm not aware of any contemporary or even moderately antique ones that do
not support Snap.

ok, that's cool, i must have been getting it confused with soemthing else.

Quote:

Provide links on the main menu items (the ones that trigger the snapped
layers) to individual menu pages, that use non-JavaScript HTML for menus.

that's cool, but i wasn't using the frames for a menu, just to hold content--i
was interested in doing the layered menu thing, but right now my menu is a
library item so i can alter it across the site with ease, and trying to use
frames with a library item seems to make dreamweaver sick and shutdown--so i've
just avoided it. if there's a way to get around that i'd love to hear it.

#7

There is no problem using Library items with frames, other than the problems
with frames themselves.

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"ericwilmoth" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

I'm not aware of any contemporary or even moderately antique ones that
do
not support Snap.

ok, that's cool, i must have been getting it confused with soemthing
else.

Provide links on the main menu items (the ones that trigger the snapped
layers) to individual menu pages, that use non-JavaScript HTML for
menus.

that's cool, but i wasn't using the frames for a menu, just to hold
content--i
was interested in doing the layered menu thing, but right now my menu is a
library item so i can alter it across the site with ease, and trying to
use
frames with a library item seems to make dreamweaver sick and shutdown--so
i've
just avoided it. if there's a way to get around that i'd love to hear it.

#8

oops--i meant layers

#9

I assume you meant layers instead of frames, but it makes no difference.
There is no issue using Library items with layers.

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"ericwilmoth" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

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oops--i meant layers

#10

any idea why dreamweaver would constantly encounter fatal shutdown every time i
try to use a layer in a libray item, then? not only that, but when i open
dreamweaver back up, the library file seems to be separated from all the files
i've attached it to--it won't automatically update. something is vewry wrong,
but if i can correct for it i'd like to know how.