Features common to all five commercial versions
- menu applets with mouse-sensitive synchronized trailing transition
effects
- apply these effects to make button menus out of any graphic
of your choice
- default internal graphics available if you have no images
of your own
- default internal graphics automatically resize to whatever
you need
- the entire applet auto-animates at intervals if there is no mouse-activity
- the auto-animation (pulse effect) can be switched off
- superimpose your text centered over each button
- wrap text over up to 10 lines on each button
- align text centre, left or right, with user-configurable margins
- menu text font, colour, style and size is user-configurable
- text does a user-configurable colour fade transition to accompany
image transitions
- menu contents defined in an external list (index file) of menu entries
- menu contents can also be entered via parameters
- index file is XIXL-compatible - i.e. reads exactly the same
format as all our other menu applets; excellent for portability and time-saving
- point-and-click WYSIWYG applet designer makes configuring the applets a game
- parameter indices accept non-Latin encodings under IE (i.e. Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Greek, etc.)
- menu can target pages into other frames and new browser windows
- a single click can even load several pages into several different frames or windows ("multi-frame targetting")
- javascript activation:
- event for clicking
- event for mouse entering a button
- event for mouse exiting a button
- button size and layout is automatically calculated from your graphics files and index
- buttons have up to 3 states: normal, highlight, pressed-down; animated
transitions are automatically calculated between normal and highlighted states
- images for each of the 3 states can be entered as a single strip or as 3 separate files
- index file size of up to 500
- multiple parameter indices available for dynamic menu switching
- applets are JDK 1.0.2 compatible - i.e. this is the widest java compatibility
available and it should function with version 3 browsers upwards
- internal error code system helps you locate errors when configuring the
applets - time-saving
- "escape page" feature for java interpreter malfunctions included - ensures
safe and reliable operation (a standard imint.com feature)
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Features specific to particular versions
- Classic version: fade transitions with variable
in- and out- speed; highly popular "sunset" button style now optionally generated
internally for you.
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Rainbow version: spectacular hue transitions which can be applied to any image; both clockwise and anticlockwise rainbow transitions.
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Wipe effects version: includes 18 different basic transitions
(e.g. oval, rhombic, rectangular), including grow/shrink and triple-edged variations,
all with variable edge-smoothing.
- Ripple effects version: includes 5 basic transition effects
(e.g. circular, oval, rectangular) with variable speed, wavelength, amplitude and
frequency.
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Pagefold version: simulates the fold of a page in a book; 10
different transitions including multiple centre tear-away; true 3D-shading; gold
foil default internal graphics.
Differences in free versions
- free use only on public websites - blocked for intranets
- animated rainbow copyright splash during initialisation
- limit of 20 on the index size
- height may not be less than 50 pixels; width may not be less than 140 pixels
- index file must be contained in a "menu.txt" file on the server
- no line-wrapping
- no javascript activation commands (e.g. onMouseEnter, onMouseExit)
- no pulse effects / pulse control
- no dynamic menus
- no parameter indices
- no text alignment control
- no true-type fonts
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