Relative Paths

[MeGaBiT]

How can I do relative paths using Xara Menu Maker? Whenever I key in a path like: /products/new.htm it automatically converts them to \products\new.htm and then in the .js file puts in a reference to file:////products/new.htm. I have to manually go into the .js file and change these to the relative path that I want every time I update a menu.

I also keep my menu in it's own folder (/menu) so that all pages on my site can go to the same place for it. I use directories for all the different categories on my site. In order to do this, I have to go into the .js file and manually remove loc+ from all of the relative file paths in the menus. I suppose I could use full URLs in the menus, but that's bad HTML to do so (IMHO).

[John Rayner]

Type it this way...

..\index.html

or in your case...

..\products\new.htm

[MeGaBiT]

This won't work when I'm two or three directories deep though, will it?

[John Rayner]

I know 2 works, heard that 3 brings you to the root from whereever... Test it... Might just work...

[MeGaBiT]

Well, I did test this. It would work only if I consistently used only one level of a sub-directory. If I used ..\products, then \products\page.htm would work, but \products\category1\page.htm would not work.

What I do to get past this is highlight all of the data from the menus, and remove all instances of loc+ and file:///

This works, but it's unfortunate that I have to modify this by hand every time I make a menu change.

Perhaps in the next release you could build support for this feature?