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or horizontally in 3D with this multilevel tree menu Flash effect.
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 varierity 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 in 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.
We recommend that you don't use item background images with
this menu, it will not give you an accurate effect.
Level displacements, Item size and Animation 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 animation speed parameter will not only affect the speed
of the rotation 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.
The Rotate horizontally parameter
With the rotate horizontally parameter you can let the menu
items rotate in the horizontal direction instead of vertically.
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 limitation 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 put too many
menu items. Flash can be 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 in 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
Version history
1.3 : 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.
1.2 : Fixed a serious bug which occurred when you had
more than nine 1:st level menu items.
1.1 : 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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