Early this morning I re-released DMB 3.6 RC3
This version is now considered gold (aka final).

No more features are going to be implemented and there’re no known bugs in it.

The only thing missing is, as usual, the documentation.

So, if you find any bugs PLEASE report them as soon as possible.

Yes i think there are some, i was waiting for the final to check if they still exist :

1. In the map section tab, many entries may appear twice.

2. The same frame menu build in 3.5 and in 3.6 are different :
in 3.6 the menu is slow (IE 5.5 and Netscape 4.79 Win2k), does not react quickly, some entries does not react at all and the frame containing the menu displays a vertical scrollbar which does not exist with the same menu compiled in 3.5.

I can send you the menu if you want, tell me what kind of pages you may need.

Dear Fogg,

1) If you have a project that presents this problem, please post it here.

2) Again, if possible post a ZIP file containing:
- Your .dmb project
- The .js files you have generated with your DMB 3.6
- The .htm frameset document
- The documents that are loaded into each one of the frames

Here are the files except the js, i went back to 3.5 release.
There are still the double entries in the map section tab.

Fogg,

Those are not really duplicate entries.

For example, note that you have set that both the over and click events of the "Advanced Procurement" command to display a submenu... and this is what DMB is showing you on the MapView. And because the over and click events point to the same submenu you see the submenu repeated twice.

This is not a problem. Is what you would expect.

Project created with DHTML MenuBuilder 3.5 in 3.6 appears with the absolute paths instead of relative, though the program was set to use local/relative path.
What could be done wrong?

You mean the paths on the project or in the .js files?

I mean the paths on the project. By the way, in js file they compiled as absolute paths too. So the menu did not work when I placed it on the server.

The paths on the project will always appear as absolute paths.

Now, if your default configuration is properly setup:

- When using a relative configuration the paths are converted into relative paths
- When using a local configuration the paths are kept as full paths with references to your local disk
- When using a remote configuration the paths are converted into absolute

If you think these rules don’t apply to you, please post your .dmb project here so I can see it.

I checked one more time. Version 3.6 RC3 handles projects created in 3.5 incorrectly. It changes menu positioning and some other parameters. And when I, for example, insert path like “C:\ Larry\Web Projects\Final\about_us.html” in project, in browser I get “C:\ Larry\Web Projects\about_us.html” (always one level up).
How can I choose configuration (local/relative/remote)? I tried to do this in the default configuration screen, but I could not.
Please check the project. Actually, I quite satisfied with how version 3.5 works. Thanks.

Ok, try this:

Re-set all the links using the browse button. This is very important. Links must never be typed manually.

Then, recompile the project and post here (in a ZIP file) the generated .js files.

Thank you. I think I found what the problem was. Menu loader code generated by DMB 3.6 differs from those generated by version 3.5 and I left all the HTML files with the old script that pointed one level up (please notice that I did not change directories or files location). I am placing both scripts here just in case you find it helpful. Now it is working. The only minor problem left is that the horizontal margins for the toolbar change or reset to default when I open project in version 3.6. But it can be easily fixed manually.

There're some minor changes in the code generated by 3.6... basically these are code optimizations.

But, I can see that your 3.5 loader code was for a project compiled in FINAL mode while the 3.6 is in DEBUG mode.

The difference is:

- DEBUG: only one file is generated (menu.js). The file is uncompressed, unoptimized and VERY large.

- FINAL: two files are generated (one for NS4 and the other for all the other supported browsers). The files are compressed and highly optimized.

It is important to remember that whenever the "Optimization Method" is changed the loader code must be updated.

Thanks Xavier, i understand now my missunderstood for the point 1.

For the point 2, that is to says the bugs, i download again the RC3 and everything is fine.

Alex

Hi,

Assuming that the menus on:

http://software.xfx.net/mainindex.htm is created with DMB 3.6 RC3, I find a small error concerning the context menu when viewing the page in Mozilla 1.0.

When right-clicking to close to the right edge of the browser window, a horizontal scrollbar is generated. You can make the scrollbar disappear by right-clicking again somewhere in the middle of the window.

cma

Hi Xavier,

Yes, version 3.6 solves practically all problems..! Remember my post from 20th june ("Javascript error with frames, unknown error")? Your solution didn't work, since my images and js files were in different folders, and no matter what I tried with the js-vars, it just didn't work.
But now with the latest version of 3.6, this problem is finally solved, and all errors concerning the js code have been resolved!

There's only one minor problem left, and that may be linked to my OS (and all related apps installed on it), and that's the 'used colors' button that doesn't work (when trying to set a transparent color). But, since I can match the background color of the toolbar with the color of the webpage, this is just a minor issue, and like I said, it may just as well be linked to my pc.

Thanks for making new releases so quickly! Not many other companies do - let alone responding to posts so quickly.

I am looking for version 3.6 final version..

Hi,

I just created a new project. 6 groups, 5 menuitems in each.
It seems to me that all menuitems under group 6 takes their respective Caption from group 5. No matter what I write as captions under group 6 menuitems, they stay indentical to menuitems under group 5 ??

A random check changing a caption under group 3 was ok.
I've attached the project.

Best regards

Claus

This is because you have set Over state of the M6 group to display the M5 group.

Change it so the target menu points to M6 (not M5).

Here is a problem when installing the menu's.. Here is something just look at the picture..  It isn't truncating the folder name and it run's into the second link and you can't tell what the other thing say's.  I was using the latest release also..

This will be fixed on the next 3.6 release which will be available in a couple of minutes.

When will the official version of 3.6 be released?

As soon as I finish the documentation.
If you're confident using previous versions of DMB do not hesitate to get 3.6 as it is far superior to any previous release and it’s even more stable than version 3.5

How far along is the documentation comming along?

I haven't finished yet.
It will probably take me 15 days or so.

xavier,  where do i find a copy of 3.6 menu builder? i have version 3.5 and really like it.

pat

pjcody.. if you go to the download page for DHTML menu builder you will see the latest beta release on that page..