Sliding menu: iSlide Pro-X Tree Type I
Special features
1. The bounce.
iSlide Pro-X folders accelerate and decelerate as they open, with an optional
bounce (3 times, in decreasing sizes).
The folders bounce by default. To turn off the bounce, use
<param name="bounce" value="off">
2. The tooltips.
If you hold the mouse over any iSlide Pro-X entry for a second or more,
a small pop-up box appears with a user-definable comment explaining the
control or entry. The content of this box is the message contained in
the final segment of the index file entry - i.e. the imint.com equivalent
of the HTML ALT-attribute. The contents of this segment normally appear
in the status bar when the mouse moves over the entry. In addition, if the
tips are switched on, the pop-up message appears over the entry after a
small delay.
To set the content of the pop-up box for an entry, use the following
in the index file:
"TEXT:myEntry" "1" "2" "LINK:myFile.htm,myFrame" "Message"
The text "Message" (highlighted in red above) will appear in the pop-up box.
Note that the colours and sizes of the pop-up box cannot be configured but
you can ask us to customise them for you at extra cost.
To turn off the tips, use
<param name="tips" value="off">
3. Further additional parameters
The Pro-X version also has forcelevel, locklevel, onLoad and
indexmaxsize parameters. Please refer to the list of parameters for
description and usage instructions.
4. Additional commands for altering the index
In addition to the DRILL command, there
are ADD and INSERT commands for changing the index at runtime. ADD and INSERT
are used the same way as DRILL, except that the result varies:
- DRILL: dumps the current index and replaces it with the new one.
- ADD: temporarily inserts the new index into the old one at the point
where the command is used; the added index segment is removed again
as soon as any new ADD or INSERT command is activated.
- INSERT: permanently inserts the new index into the old one at the point
where the command is used.
To use these commands successfully, you should keep an eye on
maximum index size. It is not necessarily a good idea to exceed
5000 to 10,000 items on the client at any one time. For example,
if you wish to manage 1 million items without reloading the applet,
you can achieve this by careful use of the ADD command, which
temporarily adds segments and removes them again, ensuring that
at any one time the viewed number of items does not rise too high.
See also the indexmaxsize parameter.
5. Opening folders in response to mouse movement
The open:move command can be used for this. Attach it to
the entry in question in the index file. So that the tree remains
easily controlable, complex trees should not use this feature
too much, and you should avoid combining it with forcelevel
and locklevel parameters. Typically, folder opening in
response to mouse-movement makes sense for top-level folders,
but no more than this. To maintain control over the tree,
mouse movement cannot close the folder - only the autoclosing
feature can do this.
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