Releases for DHTML Menu

#1380498: Admin options are disabled when "expand on bullet" is selected
#1176834: "Expand on Bullet" not working

This milestone fixes only a short list of open bugs since the 7.x-1.0-alpha4 release, but it is nevertheless stable enough, in my opinion, to justify marking this as the first beta.

This is a backport of the pre-release 7.x-1.x-dev version to Drupal 6. The reason for the backport is that most of the changes introduced between Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 are features and UI improvements unrelated to the core API. It is therefore worthwhile to make the new features available for Drupal 6 in a fourth major release, DHTML Menu 6.x-4.x.

New features:

Most importantly, three new options have been added for handling the expansion and navigation behavior of DHTML Menu.

Nav 1: One-Way Expansion

When using the option to keep only one menu open at the same time, it rarely makes sense to collapse a menu. The far more frequent use case is to expand a menu and then visit its page.

In keeping with the new Drupal user interface philosophy, the most frequent tasks should be made easiest, so the default option is now to open the page of a menu whenever it is clicked while expanded.

Read issue: #554030

Nav 2: Bullet Icon Folders

The bullet icon can now act as an expander. If this option is selected, the "arrow" icons are replaced by "folder" icons reminiscent of the tree view of many file browsers. Clicking the icon will expand and collapse the menu as a folder; clicking the menu link opens the page.

Using carefully positioned link overlays over the actual list icons, this feature has finally been implemented in a clean and conforming way, and has been tested with right-to-left locales.

Thanks to Lullabot for their excellent GPL icon set)!

Read issue: #479260

This is primarily a bugfix release, though several translations were added.

Bugs

- #355521: When multiple themes are used on one site (user-set, or admin theme) and at least one of them overrides theme_menu_item(_link), under certain conditions DHTML Menu would cause a fatal PHP error (or WSOD). DHTML Menu now keeps a separate record of the relevant theme functions for each theme.
- #337596: PHP warnings ("invalid argument for foreach") were generated under certain conditions due to insufficient data sanity checks. The variable is now ensured to be an array before calling foreach.

Two bugs were fixed in this release.

- #332100: Invalid markup generated: Duplicate ID attributes.
- #332156: static array needs to be initialized. (resulted in LOTS of warnings about a variable not being an array)

Finally after almost half a year of waiting, here is the new, all rewritten version 3.0 of DHTML Menu.

Significant Changes

Embracing the Menu System

DHTML Menu 5.x and 6.x-2.2 used the block system to override the static menu functionality. Version 3.0 ties directly into the menu system using the theme registry. The advantages of these are numerous, but the one you will most appreciate is that DHTML Menu now works with Book Navigation and any other module that works with menu trees.

Working out of the Box

A steady stream of questions and support requests used to be asked by people who simply couldn't turn on the module. The problem was that after enabling DHTML Menu, you still needed to work to get it functional - by replacing blocks, or changing their configuration in 6.x-1.04+. DHTML Menu will now by default be enabled for everything, until you disable it manually. The same applies to cloning menu items as page links - this is no longer an obscure feature configured with an explicit list of items, but globally enabled for all items, and switched on by default. Double-clicking is still around, but can be disabled now.

Numerous other small changes have been made...

Smaller changes

Features

First version of DHTML Menu for Drupal 7. New features added:

#300106 Allow bullet icon to act as expander.
#273872 Choose animation effects and speed.

Also, several improvements in the Javascript and the settings UI.

Note: No upgrade path for settings yet. This module only stores a tiny amount of configuration data, but if you want to use it on a site upgraded from D6, you will need to set all configuration options again.

First Drupal 7 version of this module.

This version of DHTML Menu has been rewritten to use the theme_registy_alter hook, allowing it to hijack the themable functions of the Menu API rather than adding preprocessing functions for the blocks.

The module is much more flexible with this approach, which means that DHTML Menu now works with Book Navigation.

One bug and one translation.

Localization:

- #270724: Translated into German.

Bugs:

- #272117: Racing condition in the cookie state saver fixed.

Bugs fixed:

- #223251: "Replace navigation block" is a visible item

Nightly development snapshot.

Bugs fixed:
* #245671, #245988 :Drupal 6.2 changed the access API. DHTML menu was relying on the old way so settings page stopped working.
* #245609 by darthclue: jQuery returns error
* #222303 by martinhamel: The menu does not work with accentuated characters

New features:
* Hide Siblings: when you click on a menu item, all other menus close
* Much smaller footprint due splitting functions into other files

Bugs fixed:
* Single quotes not allowed as menu item's ID

Bugs fixed:
* slideDown and slideUp jQuery commands were not working on IE7
* menu items with non-english items were not working

New features:
* When installed, the menu effect will be used by default: no changes for existing sites

Misc:
* Much better code documentation, using Doxygen
* Code organization
* Much better JS: comment and reviewed

All fixed from 1.1 (http://drupal.org/node/196139) plus:
The .js file was not correctly updated. now its fixed

This is the dev snapshot for the Drupal 6 version.

Now allows double click on menu parents to go directly to menu item.

Note: This version is not actually supported. It is listed here due to a limitation of the release system, in order to be able to list the 5.x-dev snapshot release.

Initial release