[greenstone-devel] Reproducing drop down navigation menus in Greenstone From: Daniel Paul O'Donnell Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:51:44 -0600

[greenstone-devel] Reproducing drop down navigation menus in Greenstone

From	Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Date	Fri, 08 Jul 2005 00:51:44 -0600
Subject	[greenstone-devel] Reproducing drop down navigation menus in Greenstone
Hi, I've gone through the archives and documentation, and while I can find a number of almost similar examples to this problem, I can't find anything that does the crucial thing I need to answer the problem. Please excuse me if that's because the answer is so obvious nobody's ever asked. I have gone over it with a real expert, though. Basically, the issue is that in an HTML document set, I use drop down menus with javascript to navigate between different "views" of a text. There can be as many as 12 different "views" so a list of links is inefficient; it also doesn't get the idea across that all 5 to 12 documents are actually the same text with different features emphasised. Here is the code I use in my HTML: <form action="" class="changeView"> <select name="choices" size="1" onchange="location=document.view.choices.options[document.view.choices.selectedIndex].value"> <option value="index.htm">Reading text</option> <option selected="selected" value="significant.htm">Significant variants</option> <option value="substantive.htm">Substantive variants</option> <option value="orthographic.htm">Orthographic variants</option> <option value="analytic.htm">All readings (analytic)</option> <option value="parallel.htm">All readings (parallel)</option> </select> </form> The trouble in Greenstone is that these URLs on option@value are not converted to hash addresses. It appears that what I need to do is write a macro for the Javascript, but I confess I'm not sure how to do it so the values are correctly converted to Greenstone hashes (if that's the right term). There are a fair number of examples of almost identical code in the archives, but none that seem to be used for arbitrary addresses like this. Any suggestions? -d -- Dr. Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor of English Director, Digital Medievalist Project University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 vox: +1 (403) 329-2377 fax: +1 (403) 382-7191 URL: http://people.uleth.ca/~daniel.odonnell/ Digital Medievalist Project: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ (@wiglaf)