Deluxe Menu 3.5

Deluxe Menu 3.5 offers you a great tool which can allow you to improve your website navigation with the most powerful DHTML JavaScript Menu on the Web! Deluxe Menu is a versatile, ready-made solution that allows professional and amateur web developers to create superior dhtml navigation systems for their web sites and web applications.

This Javascipt Menu/ DHTML Menu supports cross-frame mode, Google Sitemap, 60+ great visual effects, floating, drag-n-drop, sound, search, flat, 3d, XP, Vista menu styles, relative and absolute positions, vertical and horizontal directions, animated icons and arrows, unlimited submenus, separators and more. Create a cross-browser, search engine friendly, fast-loading web interface of any desired complexity and appearance. You don't need any in-depth knowledge of HTML or Javascript to develop web menus with Deluxe Menu.

By simply changing a menu parameter file, you can create any navigation system in minutes. Deluxe Menu comes with an easy-to-use GUI wizard that allows you to generate and test the menu in just a few mouse clicks.

Major Features:

1. Easy Installation and Customization   
   
   • Tune dropdown menu parameters manually or using Deluxe Tuner. Then add several rows of a code within html page - your menu is ready!
2. Javascript API  (Javascript Dynamic Menu)  (Real-time modifications)  
   
   • Use special JavaScript API for:
   • Dynamic changing of items (text, link, icons and even individual style!).
   • Making a dropdown menu item active/inactive.
   • Addition/removing of submenus (new! v2.0).
   • Addition/removing of items.
   • Changing of visibility of items.
   • Getting the information on any menu, submenu and items.
   • Other tricks.
3. Cross Frame Menu  
   
   • Cross-frame mode allows you to build full-featured menus on the pages that use frame-based structure (framesets). But for all that it's not necessary to insert any additional code into all the pages - just specify some extra parameters of the dropdown menu.
4. Keystrokes Support  
   
   • Opportunity to control the menu from the keyboard.
   • Press Ctrl+F2 right now and use your keyboard to control the top menu.
   • Press Esc to exit the menu.
5. AJAX Menu  (AJAX-like Technology)  
   
   • This technology allows to load data for submenus "on-the-fly" from the server. It saves outgoing traffic from the server especially when using big menus.
   • Supported browsers:
   • Windows OS: IE5+, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape 7+, Opera 8+
   • MAC OS: Firefox
6. Popup Menu  (Right Click Menu)  Create contextual menus for your pages. The current coordinates of the mouse pointer or your own ones can be used for the contextual menu.
   
7. Smart Scrollable Feature (Javascript Scrolling Menu)
   
   •  When the submenu is larger than the visible area of the page the submenu will be automatically decreased. To see all the submenu items you do not need to use scrollbars or something like that - just put your mouse to the bottom of a submenu and it will be automatically scrolled!
   • You can also specify height and width for each separate submenu.
8. Sound Support
   
   • Add sound effects to all menu events, menu mouse over, button click.
   • This effect supported by IE only.
9. Search Support  
   
   • Now you have a possibility to add search bar in the menu. You can search within current submenu only or with the whole menu. Press Enter to move on the founded words.
   • CSS Javascript Menu (CSS-based menu)  
   • Build menus completely based on Cascading Style Sheets. It is possible to appoint the individual CSS styles for separate elements of the dropdown menu.
10. Objects Overlapping  (Flash Layer Overlap Menu)  
    
    • Submenus drop down over all the objects of the page (select, flash, object, embed, applet). If for some reasons a submenu can't drop down over an object, the latter will be hidden for a time when the submenu is shown.
11. Filters and Transitional Effects  (Dhtml Dynamic Menu)  (supported by PC IE5+)  
    
    • These effects will make your dropdown menu more attractive and stylish. You can cast a shadow on the menu and submenus, set transparency and transitional effects. Among available transitional effects there are such as fade, mosaic, random dissolve, slide out and many others.
12. Individual Styles  (Javascript Cascade Menu)  
    
    • Create individual styles and assign them to any submenu and item. Use individual styles to achieve stunning effects!
13. Moving Menu (Movable Menu/Drag and Drop Menu)
    
    • Use a mouse to move a menu as a usual window.
    • Also you can create the menu where each submenu can be "separated" from the menu (MS Office toolbar-like mode).
14. Floating Menu
    
    • When the page is scrolled the dropdown menu remains visible. The menu can "float" along one or two coordinate axes.
15. Multilevel Drop Down List  and Multicolumn Dhtml Menu Script
    
    • There can be multilevel menus - create as many rows of the menu as necessary. Any submenu in its turn can include different number of columns.
16. Ways of Showing Sub Menus  (Javascript Mouse Over Menu)
    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).
17. Image Based Navigation
    
    • Use images for icons, backgrounds of submenus and items. Using images you can create menus entirely based on graphics.
18. Orientation of the Menu.
    
    • Several Menus on One Page
    • Create both horizontal and vertical menus and submenus with any amount of menus on one page.
19. Any HTML Code
    
    • Insert any HTML code inside the dropdown menu item - be it a form or a picture, a flash-object or a text. This ability allows you to create various menus of any complexity.
20. Size and Positioning  
    
    • You can set the size of the menu in pixels, percent or other units.
    • The menu may have an absolute or relative position (it can be inserted into the table).
21. Fonts, Borders and Background Colors
    
    • Use any necessary font of any color, size and font decoration.
    • Create any available type, thickness and color of a menu's frame.
    • Choose any color for backgrounds of submenus and items.
22. Padding and Spacing  
    
    • Specify various values for padding and spacing for the whole menu and for each separate submenu.
23. Delays and Prefixes:
    
    • You can specify a time for delays in showing or hiding of a submenu.
    • Use special prefixes for image paths and links to make paths absolute.
24. Separators: Create separators using your own pictures, size and alignment.

Enhancements:

1. New Features:
   
   • New Deluxe CSS Menu. 100% Pure CSS Menu. No Javascript is required!
   • Works in browsers with disabled Javascript or if a browser has no Javascript support at all. Compatible with Deluxe Menu. Convert your Deluxe Menu to Deluxe CSS Menu with easy!
   • Show tabs and subtabs on mouse over feature is added in Deluxe Tabs.
   • subMenuAlign and subMenuVAlign parameters are added into Individual Submenu Styles.
   • If you set the value <-1 of smHidePause parameter your submenus won't be hidden at all, untill you reload your page.
   • The modal feature is added in Deluxe Popup Window. You won't be able to click anywhere on your page except your popup.
2. Fixes for:
   
   • dm_ext_setPressedItem() function didn't work in cross-frame mode.
   • The bug in Deluxe Menu with 'DOCTYPE: DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict' is fixed.
   • Filters for submenu closing didn't work
   • If ajaxReload parameter is set, submenu is loading every time you move a cursor to the item.
   • The bug with white space which appered in the bottom of your page when you had a very large submenus is fixed.
   • dtree_ajax.js file didn't save in Deluxe Tuner.
   • If you hadn't specified openAfter and onClick parameters the popup window didn't appear.

Requirements:

• Standard PC,
• Apple MAC

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