Navbar on pop-up layer

[gwpriester]

OK, here's a quick example.

On the links to Page 2 and Page 3, which have links to additional sub menus, the MouseOver button goes on the actual menu layer instead of the MouseOver layer. The MouseOff version links via web animation to the Menu Layer and the button that appears on the Menu Layer links to the page.

As I said this is very convoluted and in my case, brain numbing. But it can work and the advantage is you can control the design of the individual buttons as well as the fly out menu buttons.

[garycwood84]

Many thanks, both.

This does seem to be possible with layers, but it's certainly complicated! I think I could probably get it working, but trying to edit it in the future is going to be a nightmare! It's a shame that Xara WD's navigation bars won't work properly on pop-up layers. I really liked WD when I first started using it, but as I'm building sites with it, I'm starting to see a lot of rough edges. :-(

[garycwood84]

Weird thing is, I actually got the navigation bar to work as I wanted - placed in a "Menu" layer, and with hover properties in "MouseOver Menu". It looked perfect - just as I wanted it, and when previewed and displayed in a browser, hovering over links in both the main menu and submenus showed the correct address in the status bar. Clicking links on the main menu worked as expected (i.e. it took you to the page at the link), but the submenu items don't work: clicking them just closes the menu. Right-clicking and "open in new tab" works fine... No idea why this would be?