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Simplemenu Settings

Menu Settings

Menu

Select the menu to be displayed as the Simplemenu. By default, we display the Navigation Menu which makes the most sense for administrator (as the Simplemenu was primarily created for administrators wanting to quickly go to all administration pages.)

Theme

Select a theme to display your Simplemenu items and dropdowns. The default is called original.

The themes reside in the module sub-folder named themes. Each theme is defined in a specific directory named after the theme. That name is what appears in the dropdown in the settings.

It is possible to add new themes as

Insert Node Parameter: override (6-1.3) [special]

WARNING

This parameter is considered a security hazard. There is an option in your format definition that you have to turn on in order for the feature to work. When not selected, override is ignored. Only allow this feature in an input filter where you can trust users 100%.

One can use the override parameter to replace the expected data with their own data. Although one would think using the data directly would work as well, there are cases when this is useful.

By default the InsertNode module gets data from the $node object as defined by the system. At times, the data available in the

Handling of Pop-up Windows by SimpleMenu

Feature

By default, SimpleMenu is not shown on pop-up windows. There is a flag in the SimpleMenu settings that can be unchecked to avoid this side effect. The pop-up capability is often detected when you open a new tab from the current window. It will depend on the browser and the link being clicked1.

Quick Fix

When the menu is only used by the administrators, it is possible to simply open a new tab and copy and paste the URL from the existing window with the missing menu to the new

  • 1. We are trying to ameliorate the code, but it is not easy to make it work properly 100% of the time.

With

SWF Action
Action Category: 
Control
Action Details: 
0
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: 
5
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.

Type Of

SWF Action
Action Category: 
Objects
Action Details: 
0
Action Identifier: 
68
Action Structure: 
<n.a.>
Action Length: 
0 byte(s)
Action Stack: 
pop 1 (a), push 1 (s)
Action Operation: 
a1 := pop();
r := typeof(a1);
push(r);
Action Flash Version: 
5
See Also: 
Cast Object
Instance Of
Number
String

Pop one item from the stack, define its type and push the name of its type back on the stack.

The existing types are as follow:

number
boolean
string
object
movieclip
null
undefined
function

Note that this action does not distinguish between different user objects. All of them are object.

SubString (multi-byte)

SWF Action
Action Category: 
String and Characters
Action Details: 
(multi-byte)
Action Identifier: 
53
Action Structure: 
<n.a.>
Action Length: 
0 byte(s)
Action Stack: 
pop 2 (i), pop 1 (s), push 1 (s)
Action Operation: 
i1 := pop();
i2 := pop();
s3 := pop();
r := s3[i2 .. i2 + i1 - 1];
push(r);
Action Flash Version: 
4
See Also: 
SubString

Pop a multi-byte string s3, get i1 characters from the position i2 (1 based) and push the result back on the stack.

The start position is given in characters. This action works properly with international characters.

i1 is expected to be positive or zero.

Since version 5, the String object substr(), substring() or slice() functions should be used instead.

SubString

SWF Action
Action Category: 
String and Characters
Action Details: 
0
Action Identifier: 
21
Action Structure: 
<n.a.>
Action Length: 
0 byte(s)
Action Stack: 
pop 2 (i), pop 1 (s), push 1 (s)
Action Operation: 
i1 := pop();
i2 := pop();
s3 := pop();
r := s3[i2 .. i2 + i1 - 1];
push(r);
Action Flash Version: 
4
See Also: 
SubString (multi-byte)

Pop two values and one string, the first value is the new string size (at most that many characters) and the second value is the index (1 based) of the first character to start the copy from. The resulting string is pushed back on the stack.

Since version 5, the String object substr(), substring() or slice() functions should be used instead.

IMPORTANT NOTE

String Greater Than

SWF Action
Action Category: 
Comparisons
Action Details: 
(typed)
Action Identifier: 
104
Action Structure: 
<n.a.>
Action Length: 
0 byte(s)
Action Stack: 
pop 2 (s), push 1 (b)
Action Operation: 
s1 := pop();
s2 := pop();
r := s2 > s1;
push(r);
Action Flash Version: 
6
See Also: 
Greater Than (typed)
Less Than
Less Than (typed)
String Equal
String Less Than

Similar to Swap + String Less Than although not exactly the same.

It checks whether the second string is greater than the first and return the Boolean result on the stack.1

IMPORTANT

  • 1. I'm not too sure why Macromedia introduced this action in SWF version 6.

String

SWF Action
Action Category: 
String and Characters
Action Details: 
0
Action Identifier: 
75
Action Structure: 
<n.a.>
Action Length: 
0 byte(s)
Action Stack: 
pop 1 (a), push 1 (s)
Action Operation: 
a1 := pop();
r := a1.toString();
push(r);
Action Flash Version: 
5
See Also: 
Cast Object
Integral Part
Number

Pops one item and transform it into a string.

For strings, this action has no effect.

For numbers, it works as expected, it transforms them in a string (see the sprintf(3C) manual pages).

For a user defined object, the method named toString() is called.

This is similar to a Cast Object operation, although it is available in version 5 and obviously it only works for strings. It is most certainly preferable to use a Cast Object operation since version 7.

Start Drag

SWF Action
Action Category: 
Movie
Action Details: 
0
Action Identifier: 
39
Action Structure: 
<n.a.>
Action Length: 
0 byte(s)
Action Stack: 
pop 1 (s), pop 2 (b), if (b3) { pop 4 (n) }
Action Operation: 
s1 := pop();
b2 := pop();
b3 := pop();
if(b3) {
    n4 := pop();
    n5 := pop();
    n6 := pop();
    n7 := pop();
    s1.start_drag(b2, n4, n5, n6, n7);
}
else {
    s1.start_drag(b2);
}
Action Flash Version: 
4
See Also: 
Stop Drag

Pop a target (sprite, movie, thread) name s1.

Pop a first Boolean b2, which, when true, means that the mouse pointer is locked to the center of the object being dragged.

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