plz help me modify the dropmenu snippet

Hi !
I’d like To use a little javascript library in my dropmenu, which will display tooltips as the mouse goes over the links
i found a quite good js library :
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix

( there are tooltips on most of the links at the top of the page )

but to use this script i have to add those attributes to the links tags :
onMouseOver="tip(’the tip name’)" onMouseOut="untip()"

i don’t know anything about php ... but i searched the dropmenu a little, i think there are only 3 lines to modify :
’<a href="[~’.$child[’id’].’~]" title="’.$child[$titleOfLinks].’">’.$pre.$child[$textOfLinks].$post.’</a>’;
( there are 3 similar lines like this one, and these are the only ones in the snippet with <a></a> tags )

i’d like to add this attribute to the links tags :
onMouseOver="tip(’alias of the document’)"
in the 3 lines of the snippet, but i don’t know how i can do that ( i only know xhtml/css )

thanks in advance

You would in fact just add those lines in. Half the fun of MODx is trying things and seeing if they work. Just make a duplicate of the snippet named something like ToolTipMenu and start hacking away!

yes, but the only thing is that i don’t know the document-specific variable syntax, is it
onMouseOver="tip(’alias’)"
or
onMouseOver="tip([’alias’])" ?

or maybe

onMouseOver="[~’.$child[’alias’].’~]" ??

( i’m a lazy person )



good night
( from paris )

try tip(’[*alias*]’) for the alias, or any other document variable, like introtext for the sumarry or longtitle for the long page title.

But [*alias*] would give the links the alias for the current document, not the alias for the document being linked to.



should do the trick.

Why do you want to use a javascript to do this? All you have to do is call the snippet like this:



to generate a title for the link. By default, it’s the description. You can put anything you want in the description field when you edit the document.

Quote from: sottwell at Feb 12, 2006, 06:01 PM

Why do you want to use a javascript to do this?  All you have to do is call the snippet like this:

[!DropMenu?startDoc=`xx` &titleOfLinks=`alias`!]

to generate a title for the link.  By default, it’s the description.  You can put anything you want in the description field when you edit the document.

Because tooltips are cooler than a title, and they can show more stuff than just text.

I’m interested in doing this as well!

yes with regular html titles, the length of the tooltip is very limited, moreover this javascript library allows to choose colors, and even to embed html in the tooltip