apMagicMenu Applet
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apMagicMenu is a really eye-catching applet allowing to develop menus with a magic floating background.
You can create snow, star, rain, bubble effects, flash-like animations, banners and many more
with apMagicMenu. It supports colors, fonts, tiled image background, target frames, javascript, and sound.
The applet is fast, small, easy-to-use and free. Java source code is available.
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Main features
- 7 scrolling/fade types
- Horizontal and vertical directions
- User-definable font style, font size and font face
- Tiled image background
- Ability to use any words and symbols as floating background
- Word-wrapping
- User-definable fade smoothness and speed
- Adjustable brightness of background
- Ability to call javascripts - see javascript call example and
javascript tips
- Color parameters for normal and mouseover state of text and background
- Ability to use system colors of OS for color parameters
- Support for target frames - see frame example
- Text alignment
- Menu structure can be loaded from an external txt file
- User-definable delimiter for "menuItems" param
- Mouseover and click sounds
- Inactive/disabled items
- User defined browser's status string
- User defined loading message
apMagicMenu Examples
- Light sidebar - shows image background, horizontal direction
- Sound bar - simple fade topbar
- Banner - vertical menu with left-side alignment, menu items load from txt file
- Javascript call example - illustrates ability to call javascripts
- Snow night - sidebar example with mouseover and click sounds
- Star track - horizontal menu with fade type 12
- Red bubbles - shows tiled image background, vertical direction
- Violet bar - shows tiled image background, small fade delay
- Frame example - Rain - shows using menu with frames
Setup
- Place the .jar file in the directory containing
the HTML document into which you want to insert the
applet or into a different directory, and correct
the path in the ARCHIVE= attribute (or add the
appropriate CODEBASE= attribute). It's not necessary to
have the .class file if you have the .jar one -
see FAQ.
- Add the applet tag to your HTML document in the position you want menu
to appear. Usually the easiest way to customize the applet is cut and paste the
applet tag information used in the examples
and modify it to fit your web page.
If you see a "class
not found" message, this means what your browser can't find the
.jar file specified. This may mean a spelling or Case seNSitiVe mistake in the
CODE= or ARCHIVE= attribute, the wrong location in the CODEBASE= attribute, or
that you've forgotten to copy the .jar file to the necessary directory.
- To add frame support edit "menuItems" parameter as shown: {ItemText,ItemLink,Frame}.
So {Home,home.htm,left} would display "Home" and make the frame called
"left" go to "home.htm" on clicking. See also frame example.
- To enable Javascript support see javascript tips and
javascript call example.
Purchase
Apycom Java Menu Applets may be used freely on non-commercial and non-profit sites.
However free version displays Apycom url in the browser's status bar.
It is a violation of
license agreement to
intentionally overwrite this message. The applets will disable this item, when running from
local drive only.
If you want to use the applets on a commercial site you need to order
the registered version of the applet. The purchased version does not display the Apycom
url. Also you can order the Java source code of the applets. For more informations see applets' order page.
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