[TYPO3-english] dimensional dropdown, combobox; or: what's in the name?

[piet roorda]

dear group,
if some one can help me out I am more then greatful:

I want to realize 2 dropboxes on everypage.The depency between the boxes:
first is the parent, the second the children of the first (parent)
either by:
HMENU/TMENU
in that case I am stuck with setting the depency between the boxes.
I can make two boxes with different entryLevels but I can't get the second
cildren listen to their parent.


or use JSMENU:
this works if jsmenu is used for the entire site: the page are shown when a
parent and its child is picked
and showActive lets the parent and the child are still shown in the boxes
when arrived ond the requested page.

When used for only specific pages the requested page is shown but the jsmenu
flips to blank.
I want the chosen parent and child are still shown in the menu
to pick the specific pages I do:
    lib.dropdown = HMENU
    lib.dropdown.special = directory
    lib.dropdown.special.value = some"uid"

On the jsmenuitem level showActive = 1
also when showFirst = 0

thanks for being still with me at this point
regards,
piet