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SimpleMenu Known Issues

Alexis Wilke — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 21:36:07 +0000

SimpleMenu Disappears

There following are a few of the main reasons why SimpleMenu disappears.

Pop-up Windows

By default, SimpleMenu wants to hide itself in pop-up windows. This is a feature.

The reason is that many websites will open pop-up windows for all kinds of extra-features such as uploading an image or printing some description of an image or the definition of a word or product.

These windows should not include the SimpleMenu bar.

There is a dedicated page giving several different ways to fix this problem on your website.

Menu Overflow

Very long menus will disappear on the

Discuss This! administrator settings

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 08 May 2010 04:33:48 +0000

Introduction

Available under /admin/settings/discussthis, the administrator can define how the Discuss This! module shall behave.

At this time there are 3 parts to the settings:

Set Target (dynamic)

Alexis Wilke — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:30:13 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Movie

Action Details:

(dynamic)

Action Identifier:

Action Structure:

<n.a.>

Action Length:

0 byte(s)

Action Stack:

pop 1 (s)

Action Operation:

s₁ := pop();
set_target(s₁);

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Call Method

DefineSprite

Get Member

Set Member

Set Target

Pop one string from the stack. If the string is the empty string, then the next actions apply to the main movie. Otherwise it is the name of a Sprite1 and the followings actions apply to that Sprite only.

1. Note that the name of a sprite is specified in the PlaceObject2 tag so as to be able to include the same DefineSprite tag multiple times and still be able to distinguish each instance.

With

Alexis Wilke — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:33:30 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Control

Action Details:

Action Identifier:

148

Action Structure:

unsigned short f_size;

Action Length:

2 byte(s)

Action Stack:

pop 1 (o)

Action Operation:

with o₁
// execute f_size bytes of actions
...
end with;

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Set Target

Set Target (dynamic)

The variable references within the following f_size bytes of action are taken as names of members of the specified object o₁. When no member of that name is available in that object, the previous With, or the corresponding global variable is queried. This is similar to the Pascal language with instruction or to the Set Target (dynamic) for movies.

Wait For Frame (dynamic)

Alexis Wilke — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:27:59 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Movie

Action Details:

(dynamic)

Action Identifier:

141

Action Structure:

unsigned char f_skip;

Action Length:

1 byte(s)

Action Stack:

pop 1 (a)

Action Operation:

a₁ := pop();
if(_root.get_frame() >= a₁) {
// execute f_skip bytes of instructions
...
}
else {
// ignore f_skip bytes of instructions
pc += f_skip;
}

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Branch Always

Branch If True

Goto Expression

Wait For Frame

Pop a value or a string used as the frame number or name to wait for. The frame can be specified as with the Goto Expression. If the frame was not reached yet, skip the following f_skip actions.

WARNING

Set Target

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:04:24 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Movie

Action Details:

(dynamic)

Action Identifier:

139

Action Structure:

string f_target;

Action Length:

-1 byte(s)

Action Stack:

n.a.

Action Operation:

set_target(f_target);

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Call Method

DefineSprite

Get Member

Set Member

Set Target (dynamic)

If the string f_target is the empty string, then the next actions apply to the main movie.

Otherwise it is the name of a Sprite and the followings actions apply to that Sprite only.

In order to use a dynamic name for the target, use Set Target (dynamic) instead.

Goto Frame

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:27:50 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Movie

Action Details:

Action Identifier:

129

Action Structure:

unsigned short f_frame_no;

Action Length:

2 byte(s)

Action Stack:

n.a.

Action Operation:

goto(f_frame_no);

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Goto Expression

Goto Label

Next Frame

Play

Previous Frame

Stop

The playback continues at the specified frame. Frame numbers start at 0 and go up to to total number of frames - 1.

A frame appears at each new Show Frame tag.

For a goto frame with a dynamic frame number, use the Goto Expression action instead.

Get URL2

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:26:54 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Movie

Action Details:

Action Identifier:

154

Action Structure:

unsigned char f_method;

Action Length:

1 byte(s)

Action Stack:

pop 2 (s)

Action Operation:

s₁ := pop();
s₂ := pop();
s₁.load(s₂, f_method);

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Duplicate Sprite

Get URL

FSCommand2

Pop two strings, the URL (s₂) and the target name (s₁).

All the usual HTML target names seem to be supported (_top, _blank, <frame name>, etc.) You can also use the special internal names _level0 to _level10. _level0 is the current movie. Other levels, I'm still not too sure how these can be used.

Get URL

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:14:09 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Movie

Action Details:

Action Identifier:

131

Action Structure:

string f_url;
string f_target;

Action Length:

-1 byte(s)

Action Stack:

n.a.

Action Operation:

f_target.load(f_url);

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Duplicate Sprite

FSCommand2

Get URL2

Load the specified URL in the specified target window.

When the target is set as "_level0", the current SWF file is replaced by the file specified in the f_url field. The name in the f_url field should be a proper SWF file or the area will simply become black.

When the target is set as "_level1", something special is supposed to happen. I still don't know what it is...
Also the effect of _level1 + an empty URL is ... (to remove level1?)

Delete

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:32:40 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Variables

Action Details:

Action Identifier:

Action Structure:

<n.a.>

Action Length:

0 byte(s)

Action Stack:

pop 1 (s), pop 2 (o), push 1 (b)

Action Operation:

s₁ := pop();
o₂ := pop(); // undefined or _root or _global for global variables
r := delete(s₁, o₂);
push(r);

Action Flash Version:

See Also:

Declare Object

Delete All

Set Member

Set Property

Pop one string representing the name of the property to be deleted. Then pop the object from which the property is to be deleted.

In version 5 through 8, it is necessary to Push Data type undefined (0x03)1 before the string as in:

96 04 00 03 00 'a' 00 3A
delete("a");

to delete a global variable.

1. Since player version 9, deleting a dynamic (global) variable requires _root (or _global) instead of undefined.