| Menu tabs: iTab Pro QuickNavBar Type I Feature list
Main purpose
- Tab strip applet with submenu bar
- For deeper hierarchical depth and larger menu size, items on the
submenu bar can optionally trigger popup menus, which in turn
can cause ever deeper levels of popup menus to appear - just like an operating
system control bar
- Type I only: tabs drive layers outside the applet, allowing
high-speed switching between different major sections
of a website
- Submenu bar instantly changes with the tabs
- Hyperlinks on the submenu bar load HTML pages into
the main tab display area
General Appearance
- Applet can adopt the system colours of the end-users
computer, blending into the browser bar colour scheme
- 23 colour parameters allow enhanced colour configuration
- Text font, size and style can be reconfigured, with 5 different
fonts available for you to define
- Hand cursor when mouse moves over menu
- Supports 2-state icons - 1 icon for "normal" and 1 icon for "mouse-over"
- Up to 50 different user-drawn icons can be used as many times as
you like in each applet implementation
- Icons can be GIF or JPG, including animated GIFs
- Text can have shadows
Tab Appearance
- Tabs auto-sized to the text they contain
- Tab widths can be individually overridden to your chosen size
- Tab heights can be user-defined
- Tabs can be aligned left, right or centre
- Tab spacing and tab padding parameters available
- Tabs can have different tab styles: standard, round,
trapezoid, staggered, rectangular. Some of these styles can have
their shapes further modified by use of parameters.
- A second line of text can be added onto each tab
Submenu Appearance
- Submenu bar has rectangular mouse-sensitive highlights emulating the
menubars of operating systems and prompting user-interaction
- Submenu bar highlights can also be coloured blocks
- Submenu bar contents can be aligned left, right, centre or
aligned just below their parent tab
- Popup submenus are AWT submenus - and therefore appear in
system colours
- Vertical separators can be inserted into the submenu bar
- A second line of text can be added to submenu bar entries
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Tab behaviour
- Tab switching can be reconfigured to trigger on mouse-movement or
mouse-click
- Type I only: layers driven by the tabs hold their state - form
elements and fresh pages remain in each tab while other
tabs are being viewed
- Type I only: pages in tabs are loaded before the tab is selected -
allows vital pages of a website to be preloaded
- Type II: standard navigation applet; all standard menu actions
can be attached to tabs, including loading pages into a specified
frame and other XIXL commands.
XIXL support
- Supports unlimited multiple command sequences
- LINK command allows hyperlinks to tab-driven layers
- HREF command allows normal hyperlinks to named frames and windows
- SCRIPT command allows triggering of user-defined scripts
- AUDIO command allows playing of AU files
- TIMER command allows timed sequences of commands
Menu contents
- Content supplied by an external index file conforming
to a standard imint.com format
- Content can also be supplied from parameter indices
- Content can be supplied from a ZIP-compressed menu
for faster loading
- Capable of handling 1000's of menu entries for complex
websites
- DRILL command available for loading different indices
into the applet and/or changing the number of tabs at
runtime
- Exposed drill() method for externally triggering
new menu loads
- Supports double-byte character sets
Additional features
- Search/query box can be placed next to tabs
- Optional engraved user-defined title can be placed next to tabs
- Sound effects can be separately defined for
(i) mouse movement, (ii) mouse click, (iii) tab switch, (iv) pop-up submenu activation
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