| This advanced multilevel tree menu
will display your menu items in an impressive way. Menu items
will fade into the Flash applet, each time you select a parent
menu item. It supports background images for both the applet
and the menu items.
Adding menu items and URLs
It is very important that you read the section Working
With Tree Fields in the VAC manual. This section tells
you how to include the menu items and how to use the tree
field.
The menu colors
You can set a variety of colors in this menu. This menu works
in two ways, you can either have a background image for all
the menu items, or you can customize the existing menu item
background which is built into the menu. The item background
and border colors will be overridden if you specify a menu
item background image. The item text and highlight colors
are used for the two modes. The item highlight color is the
color that the item text will change to when you move the
mouse across a menu item. It will slowly change into that
color depending on the fade speed setting. The applet's background
color will be overridden if you specify a background image.
Level displacements, Item size and Item Fade speed
The vertical and horizontal level displacement are used to
displace the subitems for the parent menu items, measured
in pixels. The horizontal displacement is recommended to be
set to above 40 pixels. The vertical displacement is not recommended
to be set to higher than the menu item height. The menu item
width and height are the dimensions of the menu items in pixels.
The item fade speed parameter will not only affect the speed
of the fading effect, but also the speed of the color changing
mouse over effect. Values between 5-20 are recommended. Put
100 to disable the effect and increase the menu speed.
Background Images
You can specify a menu item background image and a background
image for the applet. These settings will override the background
colors that you may specify.
Clicking Sound Effect
If you have an MP3 file in your personal folder, you will
be able to select it for the menu items. The sound will be
played when the menu items are clicked. Leave this empty to
disable this.
Arrow Control
You can disable the arrow and let it stand still with these
two check boxes.
Limitations
Due to a bug in Flash Player 5.0, you can have a maximum
of 200 menu items in the Flash applet. More than that, and
the applet will not work. Make sure you don't insert too many
menu items. Flash is slow and this is a very complicated menu,
too many items will increase the applet's initialization time
significantly.
Other settings
There are other settings that are discussed on the following
topics from the Anfy Flash documentation:
 Working
With Tree Fields
The
Flash Applet Size Parameters
URL
Links and Frame Targets
Working
With File Fields And File Lists
Working
With Color Buttons
Compression
Ratios for images
Working
with fonts
Adding
MP3 Sound Effects
Version history
1.5 : Added support for the ActionScript LoadMovie() command,
which means that the effect can now be inserted into Macromedia
Flash FLA projects. You can now load other .swf files or disable
the links by entering empty links.
1.4 : Fixed a serious bug which occurred when you had
more than nine 1:st level menu items.
1.3 : Added sound effects support (when clicking on a
menu item), better arrow control for the menu items and fixed
bug when displaying menu items.
Anibal Wainstein
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