J-Script question (re: sliding bar)

[darkus]

Hey all.

So I've been looking for a sliding menu bar and I finally found it.

What it does is places a static bar on the webpage in a place of your choice, and if your mouse goes over the bar, it will expand to the right by sliding outward and displaying your option choices. It works perfect except that I want to modify it.

Lets see if I can explain this correctly..

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| IMG | |BAR|
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So when you put your mouse over the BAR it will expand to the right, as it was intended. What I'd like to make it do, is expand if you put your mouse over the IMG. I'm not very good at javascrript, so I can't really figure out if the area over which the bar will be activated is definied in the script or what.. if so, is there a way I can expand the borders of the area in which the BAR would be activated.. ie. have the bar activated from a "remote" location on the page. Thanks for any help ! I'll include the actual javascript code in the followup post

[darkus]

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//Static Slide Menu 6.5 © MaXimuS 2000-2001, All Rights Reserved.
//Site: http://www.absolutegb.com/maximus
//Script featured on Dynamic Drive (http://www.dynamicdrive.com)
 
 
NS6 = (document.getElementById&&!document.all)
IE = (document.all)
NS = (navigator.appName=="Netscape" && navigator.appVersion.charAt(0)=="4")
 
 
tempBar='';barBuilt=0;ssmItems=new Array();
 
 
function truebody(){
return (document.compatMode!="BackCompat")? document.documentElement : document.body
}
 
 
moving=setTimeout('null',1)
function moveOut() {
if ((NS6||NS)&&parseInt(ssm.left)<0 || IE && ssm.pixelLeft<0) {
clearTimeout(moving);moving = setTimeout('moveOut()', slideSpeed);slideMenu(10)}
else {clearTimeout(moving);moving=setTimeout('null',1)}};
function moveBack() {clearTimeout(moving);moving = setTimeout('moveBack1()', waitTime)}
function moveBack1() {
if ((NS6||NS) && parseInt(ssm.left)>(-menuWidth) || IE && ssm.pixelLeft>(-menuWidth)) {
clearTimeout(moving);moving = setTimeout('moveBack1()', slideSpeed);slideMenu(-10)}
else {clearTimeout(moving);moving=setTimeout('null',1)}}
function slideMenu(num){
if (IE) {ssm.pixelLeft += num;}
if (NS6) {ssm.left = parseInt(ssm.left)+num+"px";}
if (NS) {ssm.left = parseInt(ssm.left)+num; bssm.clip.right+=num;bssm2.clip.right+=num;}}
 
 
function makeStatic() {
if (NS||NS6) {winY = window.pageYOffset;}
if (IE) {winY = truebody().scrollTop;}
if (NS6||IE||NS) {
if (winY!=lastY&&winY>YOffset-staticYOffset) {
smooth = .2 * (winY - lastY - YOffset + staticYOffset);}
else if (YOffset-staticYOffset+lastY>YOffset-staticYOffset) {
smooth = .2 * (winY - lastY - (YOffset-(YOffset-winY)));}
else {smooth=0}
if(smooth > 0) smooth = Math.ceil(smooth);
else smooth = Math.floor(smooth);
if (IE) bssm.pixelTop+=smooth;
if (NS6) bssm.top=parseInt(bssm.top)+smooth+"px"
if (NS) bssm.top=parseInt(bssm.top)+smooth
lastY = lastY+smooth;
setTimeout('makeStatic()', 1)}}
 
 
 

function buildBar() {
if(barText.indexOf('<IMG')>-1) {tempBar=barText}
else{for (b=0;b<barText.length;b++) {tempBar+=barText.charAt(b)+"<BR>"}}
document.write('<td align="center" rowspan="100" width="'+barWidth+'" bgcolor="'+barBGColor+'" valign="'+barVAlign+'"><p align="center"><font face="'+barFontFamily+'" Size="'+barFontSize+'" COLOR="'+barFontColor+'"><B>'+tempBar+'</B></font></p></TD>')}

 
 

function initSlide() {
if (NS6){ssm=document.getElementById("thessm").style;bssm=document.getElementById("basessm").style;
bssm.clip="rect(0 "+document.getElementById("thessm").offsetWidth+" "+document.getElementById("thessm").offsetHeight+" 0)";ssm.visibility="visible";}
else if (IE) {ssm=document.all("thessm").style;bssm=document.all("basessm").style
bssm.clip="rect(0 "+thessm.offsetWidth+" "+thessm.offsetHeight+" 0)";bssm.visibility = "visible";}
else if (NS) {bssm=document.layers["basessm1"];
bssm2=bssm.document.layers["basessm2"];ssm=bssm2.document.layers["thessm"];
bssm2.clip.left=0;ssm.visibility = "show";}
if (menuIsStatic=="yes") makeStatic();}

 
 
function buildMenu() {
if (IE||NS6) {document.write('<DIV ID="basessm" style="visibility:hidden;Position : Absolute ;Left : '+XOffset+'px ;Top : '+YOffset+'px ;Z-Index : 20;width:'+(menuWidth+barWidth+10)+'px"><DIV ID="thessm" style="Position : Absolute ;Left : '+(-menuWidth)+'px ;Top : 0 ;Z-Index : 20;" onmouseover="moveOut()" onmouseout="moveBack()">')}
if (NS) {document.write('<LAYER name="basessm1" top="'+YOffset+'" LEFT='+XOffset+' visibility="show"><ILAYER name="basessm2"><LAYER visibility="hide" name="thessm" bgcolor="'+menuBGColor+'" left="'+(-menuWidth)+'" onmouseover="moveOut()" onmouseout="moveBack()">')}
if (NS6){document.write('<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="'+(menuWidth+barWidth+2)+'px" bgcolor="'+menuBGColor+'"><TR><TD>')}
document.write('<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="1" width="'+(menuWidth+barWidth+2)+'px" bgcolor="'+menuBGColor+'">');
for(i=0;i<ssmItems.length;i++) {
if(!ssmItems[i][3]){ssmItems[i][3]=menuCols;ssmItems[i][5]=menuWidth-1}
else if(ssmItems[i][3]!=menuCols)ssmItems[i][5]=Math.round(menuWidth*(ssmItems[i][3]/menuCols)-1);
if(ssmItems[i-1]&&ssmItems[i-1][4]!="no"){document.write('<TR>')}
if(!ssmItems[i][1]){
document.write('<td bgcolor="'+hdrBGColor+'" HEIGHT="'+hdrHeight+'px" ALIGN="'+hdrAlign+'" VALIGN="'+hdrVAlign+'" WIDTH="'+ssmItems[i][5]+'" COLSPAN="'+ssmItems[i][3]+'">&nbsp;<font face="'+hdrFontFamily+'" Size="'+hdrFontSize+'" COLOR="'+hdrFontColor+'"><b>'+ssmItems[i][0]+'</b></font></td>')}
else {if(!ssmItems[i][2])ssmItems[i][2]=linkTarget;
document.write('<TD BGCOLOR="'+linkBGColor+'" onmouseover="bgColor=\''+linkOverBGColor+'\'" onmouseout="bgColor=\''+linkBGColor+'\'" WIDTH="'+ssmItems[i][5]+'px" COLSPAN="'+ssmItems[i][3]+'"><ILAYER><LAYER onmouseover="bgColor=\''+linkOverBGColor+'\'" onmouseout="bgColor=\''+linkBGColor+'\'" WIDTH="100%" ALIGN="'+linkAlign+'"><DIV  ALIGN="'+linkAlign+'"><FONT face="'+linkFontFamily+'" Size="'+linkFontSize+'">&nbsp;<A HREF="'+ssmItems[i][1]+'" target="'+ssmItems[i][2]+'" CLASS="ssmItems">'+ssmItems[i][0]+'</DIV></LAYER></ILAYER></TD>')}
if(ssmItems[i][4]!="no"&&barBuilt==0){buildBar();barBuilt=1}
if(ssmItems[i][4]!="no"){document.write('</TR>')}}
document.write('</table>')
if (NS6){document.write('</TD></TR></TABLE>')}
if (IE||NS6) {document.write('</DIV></DIV>')}
if (NS) {document.write('</LAYER></ILAYER></LAYER>')}
theleft=-menuWidth;lastY=0;setTimeout('initSlide();', 1)}