Looking at the Macromedia Newsgroups there is a lot on problems with Pop-up Menus, below is something I put together after having hassle with them, hopefully some of you will find it useful.

· Saving Pop-ups in Fireworks

Create a fireworks folder to save the following files to.

There is the ‘Save’ command but also ‘Export’.

Save, saves the file as a .png file. This is what is edited when we want to update dropdown menu (see below, Updating).

When we ‘Export’ a file it is a html and image file, this is what is inserted in DW.


· Updating Pop-Ups

1. Before editing, note the co-ordinates of the Pop-up Menu that you have set. Values change after editing.

The code you are looking for is

onMouseOver="window.FW_showMenu(window.fw_menu_0,10,85)

e.g. 0,10,85 - 0, x coordinate, y coordinate


2. In DW click on graphic which has the appropriate dropdown menu. On the ‘Properties Bar’ click ‘edit’. This will call up FW and load appropriate .png file.
3. In FW make the appropriate changes and then click ‘Done’. FW will close and you will be back into DW.
4. Find the code you noted in ‘1’ you will notice that it has reverted back to the original coordinates, change back to desired values.
5. Pop-up menus should now be updated and in correct place.

(An extra little tip is by playing with the x and y coordinates you can obviously place the Pop-Up exactly where you want them. You will notice when you first set the position in Fireworks and then view in DW that they are not where you wanted then to be (v.annoying!), hence just play about with the coordinates in DW. BUT they change back if you edit the Pop-Up back in FW that's why it's important to make a note of them.)




Edited by - bADbOYbART on 07/04/2001 11:03:10