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Published: 2010-04-22 09:32:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 7023; Favourites: 34; Downloads: 34
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Description
I don't know about anyone else, but for me personally, I find the menus here popping open in version 7 very annoying
It's especially annoying because in Firefox, when I want to change to another tab, I hover over the menus and then they fly open. It's just a bit annoying to me, so I thought I would make a Greasemonkey script to fix that (this also works in Chrome, as of May 19th 2011).
So, if you would like to have the menus open when you click on them instead of hovering over them, then you can install this script.
Just to make it clear, clicking on the menu items at the top of the page used to take you somewhere, but now they open the menu up. But you can still get to those locations on each menu when you open them up. All except the dA home page when you click the far left menu. But I didn't find a good way to get that working (I wrote this script in just a few hours).
But you can just put the dA home page (Browse Art) in your dA main menu and that will work. By the way, I'm loving how I can stick that menu to the page now
To Install
You can install this by copying this to a new tab: http://electricjonny.com/code/click_menus.user.js
To Use
After installing this script, you shouldn't notice any changes other than the menus no longer open up when you hover over them. You'll just see the background change on whatever menu area you're hovering over.
To get the menu to open, simply click on the menu area at the top of the page. If you slide your mouse off the menu, it will go away. And if you slide your menu from one menu area at the top to another menu area, the menu will also go away. Simply click again to open another menu up.
And as always, feel free to modify this to suit your own needs, and report any bugs or oddities if you find them
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I'm glad you like it, and thanks for promoting it
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i went ahead and changed the addresses the script is applied on to only be chats, which is where i mainly had a problem with the drop downs
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That's cool
I sort of thought that the chats were the main place the hovering bugged people. So yeah, making it only apply to the chats is a fine change
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i think now that i have my stick menu on i might need to change it back to all of dA... we'll see. anyway, again thanks for sharing the script with us non-programmers!
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Haha, add it wherever you want.
And no problem at all
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Very nice idea. I found my self personally hating the auto-open menus but lately i've gotten used to it and have learned how to avoid it myself. Lol maybe in the future i might use this. It's a great little script. :]
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Thanks
I'll probably get used to it, but I find it rather annoying right now
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This makes v7 a lot more comfortable. Thanks!
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Brilliantly simplistic solution to something that has been getting on a lot of people's nerves! This should be properly implemented by dA or something
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Thank you!
As I was writing the script, I kept wondering if the way I did it was the best way, or even a good way
But luckily, jQuery makes a lot of this much easier. I sort of wanted to make it so you could click on the menu, open it up, then click again to get it to go away... but I've always had problems getting things like .click() or mouseDown to work right on the same thing and do two different things... I think there's some return stuff I haven't gotten a grasp of
Anyway, yeah. I would love it if they let you pick if you want to click on the menus or just hover over them. It can be especially annoying in the chat rooms.
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Hover doesn't work but when I click on it it works perfect. (:
Even the pop up menues doesn't bother me that much. ^^
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Hover doesn't work? As in, the menus don't open when you hover, or the background doesn't change like in the preview image here?
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When I hover it the background doesn't change.
When I click the menu opens normal. (:
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Hmm, I see. What version of Firefox are you using?
The background for the menus use a Firefox 3.6 type gradient, so if you aren't using the newest Firefox, you won't see the change. I'll try to change this script so it works for older versions
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FF 3.5.9
Will update it, you don't have to change it for me.
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Ah ok. Well I just got it changed (it only took a couple minutes), so you can install this from here again [link]
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Works perfect. (:
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i like the script, however im not getting the second menu for hovering thats shown. still, id rather keep it like this, especially as a dAmn user, because those drop downs always get in my way.
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Hmm, well, the way this script works, if you're hovering over a menu at the top, you have to click it to open the menu. But if you slide your mouse over to hover on another menu, the previous menu will go away. You can just click the menu your mouse is over now to open it again though.
Does that make sense?
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yeah it does, my issue was non existent. i misinterpreted something else. thanks for the helpful script
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Ah ok. I don't think I really explained things well enough in the artists comments. So I'll go and make it much clearer now. I'm glad you like it
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i didnt realize you could stick the menu under deviantart now, so i was confused by it, but now that i have it its like two sweet changes at the same time. so thanks to you sir
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Haha yeah, just about everything at the top is a menu. You have the menu by the dA logo, the one next to your name, the messages, shop, then at the far right you have the friends and collect menu.
For me, I stick the dA menu on the page so I have some things right under all the menus.
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oh yeah i knew all that. i just didnt know they had enabled the stick part. and i really like having that enabled
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I know! Now I can put the areas I click on the most down there and not have to get to them from the menu. It's a great addition
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thats one thing i really missed in the beta
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But it's a nice addon
Thanks
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Haha yeah, some people may like the hovers, others may not.
Options are always good
Thanks for the comment
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You're welcome
actually it's useful since there's still some bug with those popoup
if you click on your groups badges and the over the menu , the menu will be behind the group badges :sad:
The may have forgot a order there
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Yeah, it seems not everything is worked out quite right yet
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Awesome. Right now i'm not using V7 because i personally far prefer the current dA. However atleast i know when i'm forced to switch its possible to have a script to stop the menus appearing when you hover
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Yeah, same here. I don't ever use version 7 (other than to test out the new things and give feedback), but once this version goes live, I'm hoping this script will still work so I don't have the hovering opening them up.
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Stupid question, but why can't i click the link now i need it? >.>
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You need the install link for this script, here? [link]
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This dA v7 is better than the correct one! Thanks!
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Haha thanks
I just find those menus popping open all the time very annoying
I imagine they did that since people didn't know that some menus in the current version could be clicked on to open them.
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But there a little problem. The script do not work. And when i click on 396 messages nothing happen.
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Really?
I can click at the top (right now it says 1 Message), and it opens the menu. Then I can click on the links in that menu and get to my message centre.
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When i click i see the list from up to down. And when i put the mouse on it the list do not show. (Or something like that...)Before i install, when i put the mouse on the '### messages' they show me the list.
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So the messages menu doesn't open when you hover?
Try clicking on the messages menu
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That take time. I uninstall it because it dont work.
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