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apMenu & apMenu2 Applets
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These award-winning applets let you generate appealing menus with impressive mouseover and color-fade effects.
You can choose between 12 killer fade animations, configure colors, fonts, sounds,
background to achieve an infinite variety of different menu appearances and behaviours.
apMenu2 has additionally a nice reverse fade-in effect.
The applets are fast, small (~4kb), easy-to-use and free. Java source code is available.
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Main features
- 12 fabulous fade types
- Horizontal and vertical directions
- User-definable font style, font size and font face
- Tiled image background
- Word-wrapping
- User-definable fade smoothness and speed
- 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
apMenu Examples
- Gray bar - shows image background, horizontal direction
- Simple fade - simple fade topbar
- Wave fade - vertical menu with left-side alignment, menu items load from txt file
- Javascript call example - illustrates ability to call javascripts
- Sound bar - sidebar example with mouseover and click sounds
- Red bar - horizontal menu with 4th fade type
- Gradient green - shows tiled image background, vertical direction
- Fast fade - shows tiled image background, small fade delay
- Sea sunset - nice blue-red fade menu with tiled background
- Frame example - shows using menu with frames
apMenu2 Examples
- Border bar - horizontal menu with border
- Wave fade - vertical menu with left-side alignment, menu items load from txt file
- Cylinder - vertical menu with image background
- Old TV - illustrates ability to call javascripts, word wrapping
- Simple fade - menu bar with simple fade
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.
Register
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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