Menu Applet Documentation

Version 1.1 release (10 September 98)

©Copyright George Eleftheriou 1998


Contents


License Agreement

You may use this program free of charge only for Non Commercial purposes. Please read the license agreement for non commercial sites. If your site is commercial you need to purchase a license. Please read the license agreement for commercial sites. The license also comes with a disclaimer of warranty which is mentioned at the end of this page.

Applet Overview

Menu Applet is a small and fast loading applet that can help you create easily and quickly either horizontal or vertical menus for your web pages. NO need to create images. The combinations that Menu Applet offers you are equivalent with the creation of hundreds of images. When the mouse is over a text message, each font size, font style, font color and background color can change. URL links can be associated with each menu item and of course there is support for pages with frames.Added on 10/09/98 the ability to align text as you like.

Applet files

Applet Parameters

Important note: The width and height of the applet must also be changed, depending on how many menu items exist.

Explanation of Applet Tags

Each applet is characterised by a pair of tags: "<applet>" and "</applet>". The applet must be contained in the body section of the html document. The applet tag must at least specify the "CODE", "WIDTH", and "HEIGHT" modifieres. In addition it can have other modifiers like "CODEBASE" and parameters. For example

<APPLET CODE="MyApplet.class" CODEBASE="." WIDTH="100" HEIGHT="100">

<PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="message.txt">

Your browser doesn't support Java or Java is not enabled.

</APPLET>

Other things to note: Class names are case sensitive. "MyApplet.class" is different from "MyAPPLET.class". Class files are binary files and should be uploaded in binary mode. The applet tags can be written in lower or uppercase characters. CODE is the same as code or Code.

Examples

The best way of learning how applets work is to see at the examples.

Browser compatibilty

This applet requires a java 1.1 fully compatible browser. Internet Explorer 4 is one. Netscape Communicator 4.04 requires a java patch available from netscape .

Future Enhancements

Ability to align text as you like has been accomplished and there no other plans for the time being.

©Copyright 1998 by George Eleftheriou