[TYPO3-content-rendering] Graphical TMENU - tying up loose ends

[Stefan Beylen]

Torsten Schrade wrote:

>> IProc: http://www.weingut-donabaum.at/fileadmin/gtmenu.txt
> Cheers! Nice function! Mine's a bit rough compared to that :)
> As I see from http://www.sil.at/partner/, it does care for different 
> menu states like IFSUB etc. - right?

yes, mine does that as well...no witchcraft ;)

>> I think the 3rd approach (see www.sil.at) is the best...
> +1. And it caters for Ben's request to have the styles written to an 
> external stylesheet.

as said in my other post Sacha is going to explain it to me how to 
render an external stylesheet

>> Anyways, I will ask Wolfgang Klinger if he can provide us with the 
>> source, he modified my version of GTMENU
> That would be wonderful!

Actually I dont want to bother Wolfgang too much as he is a very busy & 
stressed person...anyways, the only thing i need to know/that needs to 
be done is how to write the external stylesheet.

> Let's make a first summary of where we want to go featurewise.
> The GTMENU should:
> - use a normal GMENU,

my version does already

> - <img> tags etc. are dropped during rendering and instead css styles 
> get written to an external stylesheet

does it too

> - JS can be used to preload the images (prevents flickering on hover), 
> but usage is configurable by a flag

ok, we have to introduce a new param then...that will be the only one 
needed. The Iproc I wrote just needs to be included - done.

> - cater for all menu states (RO, NO, IFSUB)

working already

> All this has already been achieved but needs to be put together. What 
> makes sense? Just a complete userfunction or some GTMENU extension?

Well, I think the Iproc would be enough. I first intended to write a new 
menu type mymenu=GTMENU but this goes far beyond my capabilities...

have a nice day!