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Menu
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by John Morris
-Installation
Place the following applet tag inside the
html on which you want Menu to appear:
or use the menu.htm file provided. You MUST include the applet
tag EXACTLY the way it is above for the menu to work.
-Customization
This applet is HIGHLY customizable using the
applet param tags described below. The tags all
look similar to this:
where ? is replaced by the names below and the #
is replaced by the values that go with the names.
Place as many of these as you wish for each option
you want to customize between
tags described above.
name value
---- -----
background any valid RGB number (ex. 255,0,0 would be red)
foreground "
highlight "
shadow on or off
shodowcolor any valid RGB number
border on or off
bordercolor any valud RGB number
option# the name of each option on the menu
*NOTE - the # is replaced by numbers starting
with 1 up to the number of options you
want displayed.
url# the link you want to be displayed for the
corresponding option
*NOTE - the # is replaced by numbers starting
with 1 up to the number of options you've added
target the name of the target frame you want each
option's URL to be displayed in
absolute on or off
*NOTE - when turned off links are assumed relative
to the current page but when turned on you must
enter the COMPLETE URL, ex. http://www.jacksshack.com
font any valid font
fontsize any valid fontsize > 0
spacing the space you want between options
*NOTE - the applet will automatically make the
the spacing optimal to fill the applets height
bullet circle, square, dash, random
*NOTE - don't add this parameter if you don't want
any bullets
bulletcolor any valid RGB number
effect enlarge, fade, shrink, highlight, random
*NOTE - this is what happens when an option is clicked.
If you don't any effect don't add this parameter
delay any valid number > 0
*NOTE - this is the speed of the effect in milliseconds.
A value of 1000 is a full second, 500 is half a second and
2000 is two seconds. The default is 100.
If you have any questions take a look at the html of the file
menu.htm included with this. It doesn't use all the options
but it will give you an example of what they should look like.
John (Jack) Morris
www.javaplayground.com