Pop-up menus at top of screen in IE 6

Someone has already found a partial solution (doesn't work for items of long lists that don't fit above the bottom of the screen ).

See this site for details:
http://www.6gwebdesign.com/node/10

Attached is the patch.

I just finished updating the fix. It now displays the menu correctly for IE even if the lists stretch beyond the bottom of the browser window.

You can download the file here: http://www.6gwebdesign.com/files/webfmJS.zip

I will also update the forum topic http://www.6gwebdesign.com/node/10 with all modifications made to the file.

I tested and it works great - molto grazie Ryan. I guess it is time for an update to the project though I'd like to put more in than just a few bug fixes.

One more thing...

To get the "working..." text to display in Internet Explorer, make the following changes:

On line 1642
Replace

Webfm.progress.prototype.show = function(x, y) {
  if(!this.flag) {
    this.flag = true;
    var prog = Webfm.$(this.id);
    var elSpan = Webfm.ce('span');
    elSpan.setAttribute('style', 'background-color:' + y);
    elSpan.appendChild(Webfm.ctn(x));
    prog.appendChild(elSpan);
    prog.style.visibility = 'visible';
  }
}

With

Webfm.progress.prototype.show = function(x, y) {
  if(!this.flag) {
    this.flag = true;
    var prog = Webfm.$(this.id);
    var elSpan = Webfm.ce('span');
    elSpan.appendChild(Webfm.ctn(x));
    prog.appendChild(elSpan);
    prog.style.visibility = 'visible';
	prog.style.backgroundColor = y;
  }
}

Thanks again Ryan. I'll add this to the 1.5 release.

Do you have any insight as to why the drag and drop of files/directories is so broken in IE? I've also never been able to figure out how to float the list fieldset up beside the tree fieldsets.

I'm not sure about the drag-n-drop problem, since I only attempted this after I applied the fixes for IE. I created a new folder and dragged existing files into it without any problems.

Can you explain the problem further?

P.S. Should I continue this discussion with you elsewhere?

Certainly. My email is robmilne@web.net

On my W2K system here at home the drag and drop doesn't work worth beans in IE6. I am not able to drag anything into folders.

I never let the IE shortcomings get me too down because the module was always meant as a purely admin module (it's easier to advocate for FF over IE to admins). With my plans to open the module up to non-admins the IE functionality becomes more of an issue and I have to weigh the pros and cons of adopting a framework like jquery to make the interface cross-browser compatible. I really don't have time to rewrite all the javascript and I would rather patch it.

Patch integrated into 5.x-1.5