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apTabMenu Applet
apTabMenu applet provides an obvious and friendly tabbed interface for your site,
very familiar to most visitors. The applet gives you a quantity of tab sorts - from
simple border tabs to Windows-like 3D tabs.
You can change colors, fonts, icons, sounds, apply javascript calls, can use the applet
both with frames and w/o frames. Small, easy-to-use and free.
Java source code is available.
Main features
- 6 tab types
- Support for frames - see frame example
- User-definable font style, font size and font face
- Image icons
- Word-wrapping
- Ability to call javascripts - see javascript call example and
javascript tips
- Color parameters for normal and mouseover state of text and tab
- Ability to use system colors of OS for color parameters
- Mouseover and click sounds
- Inactive/disabled items
- User-definable default selected tab
- Color parameter for borders
- Menu structure can be loaded from an external txt file
- User-definable delimiter for "menuItems" param
- 3D text effects (normal and mouseover text shadow)
- User defined browser's status string
- User-definable loading message
- Toggle mode
- Ability to dynamically change items via external javascript calls - see dynamic menu example and
javascript tips
- Tiled image background
Examples
- Aqua bar - shows using menu with frames, item icons
- 3D tabs - 3D tabs with embossed item text
- Sound bar - border tabs with mouseover and click sounds
- Javascript call example - illustrates ability to call javascripts
- Widows tabs - Windows-like 3D tabs with icon and disabled item
- Shadowed borders - border tabs with shadow and 3D text
- Dynamic tabs - change the highlighted item via javascript
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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