Quick Menu XML Help file

This product was downloaded from www.tntcenter.com

Description:
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Quick Menu XML is a web menu, it is made to be used as navigation system for your web site.
The menu doesn't require macromedia flash program; it only requires the Flash Player that is installed on over 98% of the computers.

How to use it:
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- Place the swf file in your web page, drag and drop in Dreamweaver or manually write the tags needed to display a swf flash file. This is a simple procedure but if you need more help see this link: http://www.macromedia.com/go/tn_4150
- The only files you need online are menu.swf and menu.xml
- Edit the XML file with a text editor like notepad form windows.
- Change the values between the quotes to change menu color, text, URL to open and other options.
- You can add / remove XML lines to add or remove buttons and sub buttons in the menu.

Parameters table:
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Parameter Name   Comments   Sample values
text   The text that you will see on each button or sub button   Home
Products
Services
Contact
type   This shows what happens when the button is clicked, geturl means the button will open a web page, loadmovie means that the button will load an external swf file, gotoandstop means that the button will make a certain clip go to a certain key frame.   geturl
gotoandstop
gotoandplay
loadmovie
fscommand
function
what   This is the parameter that will tell the menu what page to open or what key frame to go to, what movie to load, what function name to trigger or what FS command to trigger.   http://www.tntcenter.com
2
external_file.swf
my_function
fullscreen
where   This parameter will show where the above action will take place, in what frame to open the html page, in what clip to load a swf file, in what clip to go to a key frame, in what clip is the function that needs to be triggered.  

_parent
_blank
clip1
_root

button_width   The width of the menu buttons in pixels. Value must be a number. Integer is recommended.  

100
120
150
135.5

button_height   The height of the menu buttons in pixels. Value must be a number. Integer is recommended.   16
18
22
23.5
buttons_space   The space that appears between the menu buttons. Buttons have one pixel border up and down, so if you only want to see 1 pixel border between buttons set this to -1 so the buttons overlap by 1 pixel. Have a space of 10 pixels between buttons set this value to 10   -1
0
1
2
10
visible_buttons   You can have an unlimit3ed number of buttons in the menu, however menu is made to auto scroll, this number allows you to set the number of buttons to show at once, the rest of the buttons will be lower so you need to scroll to see them.   4
5
6
7
button_color   This is the color code for the buttons, for example black is "000000", white is "FFFFFF", yellow is "FFCC00". Remember to enter this value WITHOUT the # in front (usually other applications show the color code as #FFCC00). This color will also be applied to the scroll box.   000000
FFFFFF
FFCC00
333333
CCCCCC
rollover_color   This is the color code for the buttons when mouse is over the buttons. Black is "000000", white is "FFFFFF", yellow is "FFCC00". Remember to enter this value WITHOUT the # in front (usually other applications show the color code as #FFCC00)   000000
FFFFFF
FFCC00
333333
CCCCCC
border_color   This is the color of the borders, for example black is "000000", white is "FFFFFF", yellow is "FFCC00". Remember to enter this value WITHOUT the # in front (usually other applications show the color code as #FFCC00). This color will also apply to the scroll box borders.   000000
FFFFFF
FFCC00
333333
CCCCCC
text_color   The color code of the default text on the buttons. Remember to enter this value WITHOUT the # in front (usually other applications show the color code as #FFCC00)   000000
FFFFFF
FFCC00
333333
CCCCCC
rollover_text_color   The color code of the text when mouse is over the button. Remember to enter this value WITHOUT the # in front (usually other applications show the color code as #FFCC00)   000000
FFFFFF
FFCC00
333333
CCCCCC
auto_scroll   The auto scroll option, it can be true or false, when set to "true" the menu will auto scroll when mouse is close to top and base margins of the menu. The auto scroll area can be set by "sensitive_margins"   true
false
sensitive_margins   Sensitive margins is only useful when the auto_scroll is "true", this parameter is an area in pixels; when mouse is in this area the menu will auto scroll. For example if this is set to 20 this mean that when mouse is 20 pixels or more close to bottom margin then the menu will scroll.   20
30
40
55
67
show_scroll_bar   This parameter sets the scroll bar visibility to true or false. When scroll bar is set to true it can also act as an indicator only for the auto scroll, it will allow users to see the percent of the scrolling, users will see if there are more buttons lower or upper.   true
false
scroll_bar_position   This is the x position (left-right) of the scroll bar relative to the menu buttons; setting this to 1 means that it will be one pixel between the menu and the scroll bar, 0 means that it will be no space between menu and scroll bar. -1 means that menu and scroll bar will overlap 1 pixel, will share a border.   -1
0
2
3
4
drag_box_color   The color code of the small dragable square that allows you to scroll the menu. Remember to enter this value WITHOUT the # in front (usually other applications show the color code as #FFCC00)   000000
FFFFFF
FFCC00
Parameter Name   Comments   Sample values


If you need more support with the menu visit the general support page http://www.tntcenter.com/

Last update 16-May-2006