- Status string shows item labels - Text aligned to left - Items with icons - Filters and Transitional effects - Unlimited number of sub levels - Visible over select boxes, iframes, pdf, flash, Java applets. - Deluxe Tuner - visual interface to create and modify dhtml menus easily and in no time. - Cross-frame support - menus work on frameset-based pages
Use images for backgrounds of submenus and items, icons, arrows. Using web images you can create menus completely based on graphics.
Design both horizontal and vertical menus and submenus with any amount of menus on a single page.
Place any HTML code inside the menu item - be it a flash-object, form, picture, or text. This ability lets you to build various menus of any complexity.
Submenus can be shown in 4 ways: - From left to right and also from left to right + upwards. - From right to left and also from right to left + upwards (e.g. for right-to-left languages).
Q: How can I upgrade to Deluxe Menu v2.0? Now I'm using v1.14.
A: How to upgrade to v2.00 --------------------------------------------------------------- You can download the licensed engine .js files from the same link in your license message. Deluxe Menu v2.00 has new parameters and features. To upgrade to v2.00 you should do the following.
Step 1. 1.1 For Windows users a. Run Deluxe Tuner v2.0 (can be found in the trial menu package v2.0 http://deluxe-menu.com/deluxe-menu.zip). b. Open menu data file (.js file where menu parameters are placed): select File/Open… c. Save the file: select File/Save, then click "No" button when the dialog box appears.
1.2 For other OS users a. Open menu data file (.js file where menu parameters are placed) in a text editor. b. Make sure that the following variables exist in the data file:
var keystrokes = 0; var dm_focus = 1; var dm_actKey = 113;
var dynamic = 0; var smHideOnClick = 1; var itemAlignTop = 'left'; var smSmartScroll = 1;
var dmAJAX = 0; var dmAJAXCount = 30; var dmRTL = 0; var dmObjectsCheck = 0; var menuBackRepeat = "repeat"; var menuHeight = ""; var transDuration2 = 200;
If one of the variables doesn't exist - add it at the beginning of the file.
c. Save the file.
Step 2. Now open HTML-page that contains Deluxe Menu.
Step 3. Replace existent tags of the menu by the following code:
Step 4. Save HTML-page.
Step 5. New engine v2.00 has 7 .js files. They are: - dmenu.js - dmenu4.js - dmenu_add.js - dmenu_dyn.js - dmenu_key.js - dmenu_cf.js (new v2.00) - dmenu_popup.js (new v2.00)
Replace all old .js files by the files from v2.00.
Try that.
Q: I want to use this menu with ASP. Can the link items NOT open a new window? For ASP the current window needs to be used with whatever value is in the link parameter.
A:JavaSript menu uses window.open or href-method depending on the target parameter. If you set "" or "_self" target the menu uses href-method and if youset "_blank" or frame name the menu uses window.open and opens your link in a new window.
You should use the following parameter var titemTarget = "_self"; or var titemTarget = "";
Please, see also individual items targets, for example: {|The Team, http://www.domain.co.uk/receptionist.htm, _blank,} Change "_blank" to "" or to "_self".
Q: May I can use PHP code in menu items of my dhtml website navigation menu?
A: You may generate a menu from a database or XML using any server-side script, e.g., PHP, ASP, VB, etc. However, these scripts don't work inside of Javascript .js files, so, you should move parameters of a menu from a .js file into an html-page, e.g.:
<!-- Deluxe Menu --> <noscript><a href="http://deluxe-menu.com">Javascript Menu by Deluxe-Menu.com</a></noscript> <script type="text/javascript"> var dmWorkPath = "menudir/";</script> <script type="text/javascript" src="menudir/dmenu.js"></script> <!-- (c) 2006, http://deluxe-menu.com -->
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript1.2"> // and describe parameters of a menu var parameter1=value1; var parameter2=value2; etc.
var menuItems = [ // here you generate items using server-side scripts (php, asp, vb, etc.) ]; </script>
The example of the menu working with PHP/MYSQL you can find here: http://deluxe-menu.com/rq-loading-bar-MySQL-support.html
Q: I need to know how to have the background in the main items of the dynamic menu transparent, and then the sub-menus a different translucent color.
A: To set transparent background for the menu you should set:
var menuBackColor="transparent"; var itemBackColor=["transparent","transparent"];
and use Individual Item Styles for your submenus:
var itemStyles = [ ["itemBackColor=#8EE8E1,#26BBB0"], //style0 ["itemBackColor=#F4B7FB,#E65AF5"], //style1 ];
