Top menu configuration
- Enter your own images for top-level menu.
- Top level items can be stacked horizontally
for topbar implementations or vertically for
sidebar implementations.
- Supports full preloaded rollover image for
easy effects design.
- Supports individual adjustment of hotspot
sizes.
Submenu configuration
- Can be set to pop up, down or left
with respect to top level menus.
- Framebuster capability: submenus appear
over other frames and windows or HTML content
in other pages without any need for coding
in those pages - allows highly efficient
navigation systems to be created.
- Explode option on Windows for animated
pops and drops; multi-directional explode
configuration and adjustable explode speed.
- 13 specific submenu formating parameters
and 16 further stylesheet parameters.
- Optional minimum and fixed heights and
widths of submenus to fit image backgrounds
and/or force line-wrapping
- 10 submenu levels (more can be customised on request).
Text appearance
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Stylesheets for menu entry formatting with 16 commands
per style - commands include many colour and font options.
- Stylesheet wizard: with 3 preset global styling patterns for super-fast
advanced formating.
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Stylesheets may specify up to 50 styles, allowing fast group
or individual formatting of menu entries; set the styles fast using
the development environment's instantly updating WYSIWYG display.
- Line-wrapping of long menu entries - up to 20 lines per entry.
- Multi-icon entries: assign up to 50 different icons of your own.
- Two-colour separators available.
- Optional bullets precede text.
- Mouse-over causes a context-sensitive message display in
the browser status window.
- Text alignment options allow left, right and centre alignment
of text.
- Text-graphics: text may be replaced in the menu with
small text-graphics allowing use of any fonts and styles you
wish.
- Line spacing adjustment options.
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Text shadows: enhanced shadow or embossed effects.
- Extended characters available (e.g. accented letters).
Multi-function click operations
- Full standard hyperlink functionality with frame-targeting,
anchors, absolute and relative addressing to anywhere
on the net.
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Multi-command functionality. Unlimited numbers of links
targeted into different frames may be triggered by a single
click.
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A single click can trigger an unlimited combination
of hyperlink, audio and other functions.
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Clicks can trigger user-defined javascript/DHTML functions (not Mac).
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Remote controls: exposed methods allow various changes
to be made to the applet from outside.
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Page-sensitive menus without applet reloading. New indices
can be loaded into the applet corresponding to page
changes in the other frame(s).
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DRILL command for runtime loading of new indices.
- TIMER command for timed event sequences.
- Path substitutions for reducing index file size.
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Indices
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Powerful index format allowing
multiple command execution and tag graphics.
- Standard format for all our applets allowing 100%
portability of indices.
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Dual-loading: may be read from external files, parameters, or both.
- High index capacity - tested with single index files up to 100,000 entries.
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Unlimited index size using index hyperlinks (drills) to manage
multiple part indices.
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Automatic index generation when designing with an index creator.
Have an index created from your site at the click of a button.
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Index editor facility with drag-and-drop functionality and
wizards for creating efficient multiple index systems in seconds.
- 10 submenu levels (more can be customised on request).
- ZIP compression of indices can reduce indices in external files by about 85% in size.
Images
- Standard and rollover images for top-level menu
with especially easy configuration.
- Background image for submenu system: tiled to fit if necessary - just
like HTML backgrounds.
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Tag-images: menu entries may be suffixed with small
images of your choice - typically used to indicate "new",
"cool", "updated" and similar notices. (Tag images only
appear when the menu is left-aligned).
Performance
- JDK 1.1 compatible - requires version 4+ browsers.
- Comes with optional signed CAB file for removal
of browser warning messages attached to
bottom of MSIE submenus.
- Comes with optional signed JAR file for removal
of browser warning messages attached to
bottom of N6 submenus.
- Windows compatible.
- Unix/Linux compatible.
- Mac compatible - but with modified behaviour and
lower performance, particularly on Netscape for Macintosh.
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Online demonstrations include examples with indices
approaching 3,000 items, and yet load and perform at high
speed; much larger indices should be possible with no
performance loss.
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Can optionally be implemented without any external
graphics to speed up performance and loading time; likewise
indices may optionally be loaded from parameters with similar effect.
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Advanced safety management: JVM error detection with
lifeboat page safeguards your site reputation.
Tools and Templates
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Site indexing application creates the indices which the menu applets
visualise. Application includes numerous wizard operations and
drag-and-drop editting.
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Preset designs are included with the downloadable trials.
These can be used as templates to help you create your own menu design.
Other features
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Multiple cursor types: "hand" and "wait" cursors
appear at appropriate times (not Mac).
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