Re: [Lift] Re: Odd menu behavior?

Problem solved!!!!!
Thank you very much 

I had narrowed it down to LocGroup("user") and finally discovered how
you initialized it in User. That did it.

Thank you very much.
Best regards
Jack

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Damian Helme <damianhelme@...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't see where you've gone wrong, but there's some example code that
> shows how to do what what you're looking for:
>
> https://github.com/dph01/lift-TBNavbarTemplate
>
> with a running instance of the app here:
>
> http://www.damianhelme.com/tbnav/
>
> If this doesn't help you find the error, let me know.
>
> Cheers
>
> Damian.
>
> On Tuesday, July 3, 2012 5:33:40 PM UTC+1, jackpark wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> That addition gets me a repeat of the "main" group on the next line.
>> So, the "main" LocGroup is working fine. When I look at the printline
>> from TBNav which performs some transformations on what it gets, when
>> passed "user" data, it gets blank.
>>
>> What this is now suggesting to me is that the code for creating the
>> User menus is not being assigned to LocGroup("user").  My intuition
>> suggests that I'm going to have to override the User (ProtoUser) menu
>> stuff and create the same menus, assigned to LocGroup("user").
>>
>> My naive attempt to just assign those items as they are constructed in
>> boot.scala fails; the compiler says I cannot simply >>
>> LocGroup("user")  (which reveals deep ignorance on my part).
>>
>> Before creating a demo at github (which I'm happy to do), is there
>> some relatively obvious way to assign the user menus in my code below
>> to LocGroup("user")?
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Jack
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:57 AM, IL <iron9light@...> wrote:
>> > Try <lift:Menu.builder top:class="nav" li_item:class="active"
>> > linkToSelf="true" expandAll="true" group="main"/>
>> >
>> > Or you can post a demo to github and let me see if I can help.
>> >
>> >
>> > IL
>> >
>> > On Monday, July 2, 2012 7:45:30 AM UTC+8, jackpark wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Could be my code, of course, but I don't see the bug. I am putting
>> >> menus across the top, inspired by the Twitter Bootstrap stuff. My code
>> >> is painting all the menus in the LocGroup "main" but no in the
>> >> LocGroup "user".
>> >>
>> >> default.html in that region looks like this:
>> >>
>> >> <span class="lift:TBNav.menuToTBNav?eager_eval=true">
>> >>   <span
>> >>
>> >> data-lift="lift:Menu.builder?top:class=nav;li_item:class=active;linkToSelf=true;expandAll=true;group=main"></span>
>> >> </span>
>> >> <span data-lift="lift:TBNav.menuToTBNav?eager_eval=true">
>> >>   <span data-lift="lift:Menu.builder?top:class=nav
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> secondary-nav;li_item:class=active;linkToSelf=true;expandAll=true;group=user"></span>
>> >> </span>
>> >>
>> >> The first <span> is painting content, the second <span> is empty when
>> >> viewing elements.
>> >>
>> >> The boot.scala code which drives this looks like this:
>> >>
>> >>     val entries = List(Menu("Home") / "index" >> LocGroup("main"),
>> >>      Menu("Bookmarklet") / "bookmarklet" >> LocGroup("main"),
>> >>      Menu("WebSearch") / "websearch" >> LocGroup("main"),
>> >>      Menu("RecentChanges") / "recentchanges" >> LocGroup("main"),
>> >>      User.loginMenuLoc.open_!,
>> >>      User.createUserMenuLoc.open_!,
>> >>      Menu("user",userLinkText)  / "#" >>
>> >>        MustBeLoggedIn >> LocGroup("user") >> PlaceHolder submenus (
>> >>            User.logoutMenuLoc.open_!,
>> >>            User.editUserMenuLoc.open_!,
>> >>            User.changePasswordMenuLoc.open_!
>> >>        )
>> >>     )
>> >>
>> >> To be really honest, I cannot recall where I got that code.
>> >>
>> >> When I do a println on "entries", I get this:
>> >> List(net.liftweb.sitemap.Menu$Menuable <at> 7118a4,
>> >> net.liftweb.sitemap.Menu$Men
>> >> uable <at> 108b736, net.liftweb.sitemap.Menu$Menuable <at> 63343ac1,
>> >> net.liftweb.sitemap.M
>> >> enu$Menuable <at> 79fd87c8,
>> >> Menu(Loc(Login, <function1>, LinkText(<function1>),
>> >>  List(If(<function0>,<function0>),
>> >> Template(<function0>))),WrappedArray()), Menu(Loc(C
>> >> reateUser, <function1>, LinkText(<function1>),
>> >> List(Template(<function0>),
>> >> If(<f
>> >> unction0>,<function0>))),WrappedArray()),
>> >> net.liftweb.sitemap.Menu$Menuable <at> 59ac
>> >> 004c)
>> >>
>> >> I can see a Login menu in the list, but not in the HTML.  This is a
>> >> new kind of bug for me; console is not showing any javascript errors.
>> >>
>> >> I'll greatly appreciate any available insight.
>> >>
>> >> Many thanks
>> >> Jack
>> >
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