Open menu to pre-selected level

[bikey77]

Hello all, congratulations for your excellent work.
I have purchased the XML Multilevel Sliding menu from flashden.net and I'm using it in one of my current projects.

I would like to know if ot would be possible to have the menu load directly to a specific sub-level when the page loads. For example, i have 3 main categories as my first level and each of them has 10 more sub categories and under them i display my products. when i click on a product link, the product page is loaded along with menu but the menu is displaying the 3 main (root) categories, meaning that the user has to open all the sub-menus again to fin the specific category he was at before.

• Category 1
  • Sub-Category 1
    • Product 1
    • Product 2
    • Product 3
  • Sub-Category 2
    • Product 4
    • Product 5
    • Product 6 ---> product.php?cat=1?subcat=2&pid=6
  • Sub-Category 3
    • Product 7
    • Product 8

in this example, i need the menu to open directly to Sub-Category 2.
Any suggestions would be helpful and welcome. Thanks.

[Adrian]

Hi,
Thank you for purchasing. Unfortunately such feature is not available. It could be implemented with a tree search algorithm (since xml files are represented in flash by a tree structure). I will give it a try and if I get to a solution I'm going to contact you.

[AndyT]

Hello.

Great menu - was wondering the same as the original post - did you find time to give it a try and work up a solution I could use?

Thanks.

[demoncleaner]

Hello,

I think there is a way because if you find this line

_global.gRoot = this.firstChild; //(you can find it inside Actions.as)

you could change it to:

if(yourvariable=="whatever"){
_global.gRoot = this.firstChild.childNodes[0];
} else{_global.gRoot = this.firstChild;}

Thats works fine for me and the menu will open in the first submenu.
The only problem I still have, and hopefully someone found the answer for was that if it opens up in a submenu for any reason its not showing the "back to root"-button on top anymore. So in this state there would be no way to go back to HOME or the other main menus which is not good.
Did anyone found a solution for that ?

christian

[cardiac7]

Anyone ever figure this last bit out... to get the "Back to Root" to appear if you have the menu load on a submenu group as bikey77 mentions how to do??