| Hybrid drop-down menu / image-map menus
Feature lists
This is the full listing of features; there is also an abbreviated and clearer
tabular comparison of features.
Features common to
Mini, Express and Pro versions
- imagemap with drop-down menus expanding from hotspots
- any user-drawn image can be entered into the applet
- hotspots defined by a MAP file - just like HTML imagemaps
- MAP file can be created by the wizards of any normal web design programme
- automatic outlining of hotspots on mouse-over
- drop-down menus animate on opening (exploding growth)
- drop-down menu contents defined in an external list of menu entries
- in the commercial version menu contents can also be parameter defined
- tools available for index file writing
- index files compatible with all our applets - excellent for portability and time-saving
- rich colour configurability for drop-down menu appearance (hue, saturation, contrast)
- accepts extended and accented characters
- submenu text has definable colour, style, size and font
- menu can target pages into other frames and new browser windows
- a single click can even load several pages into several different frames or windows ("multi-frame targetting")
- direction of sub-menu opening is intelligently calculated by the applet
- direction of sub-menu opening may also be over-ridden by parameter
- submenus may carry optional, hyperlink-able titles
- submenus may contain separators just like standard programme menus
- submenus have a mouse-sensitive highlight that gives an enhanced interactive feel
- there is a limit of 50 menu entries in the free Mini version and 100 in
the purchased Mini version (the Express and Pro versions take much larger indices).
- applet is JDK 1.0.2 compatible - i.e. this is the widest java compatibility
available and it should function with version 3 browsers upwards
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Additional features in Express version
- An additional submenu level (opens two sub-levels deep)
- Can handle up to about 1000 menu entries per index
- Has multi-index capability (i.e. additional indices
can be loaded at runtime to increase menu size beyond 1000)
- Has 8 additional colour parameters for much more precise
colour definition of text and sub-menus
Additional features in Pro version
- All Express features plus...
- Clicks can activate javascripts (version 4+ browsers)
- Clicks can activate audio clips
- Clicks can activate simultaneous multiple combinations
of links, javascripts and other commands
- Submenu backgrounds can be images
- Submenu borders can be deactivated
- Submenu line height can be more precisely adjusted
- Submenu width and height can be fixed if need (standard
is automatic calculation)
- Submenu disc icons can be deactivated
- Submenu margins can be set
- Submenu entries can be replaced by graphics (e.g. for font effects)
- Submenu entries can be suffixed by small images (e.g. for "new" / "updated" tags)
- Submenu entry highlight backgrounds (rectangular) can be removed
- Mouse-over dynamic image changes to any part of the imagemap; many such
changes can be made simultaneously
- Multi-threaded image pre-loading for maximum fluidity of dynamic image changes
- Path substitution parameters allow index file size economisation on complex
websites
- Submenu explosions can have a user-defined speed or be deactivated (v.2+)
- 6 styles are available on a stylesheet, each controlling 10 colour parameters (v.2+)
- Index titles can optionally be painted directly onto the imagemap (v.2+)
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 | This product range is called iMMap menus. The diverse prices and benefits of these menus offer advantage to all types of designer from home-user to corporate. Their common point is that they are based around the concept of hybrid drop-down menu / image-map menus.
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