This lean menu is a great tool for your page. When the visitor moves the mouse across the menu, they appear as buttons.

Setting Colors

In the Color tab, you can set the menu's colors such as the item text and background colors and the mouse over text color.

Adding menu items and URLs

Enter each menu item and its corresponding URL into their respective text field. Make sure you have the same number of menu items as you have URLs. See the section Entering Text Or Files for more information about entering menu items.

Fonts

You can specify the text size (in pixels) and the font. This applet supports FFT files. You can also set the text alignment, maybe you prefer centered items?

Item Area Height and distance between menu items

The item area height will set the height of the menu items. Use the distance between the menu items field to set the gap between each button.

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.

Other settings

There are other settings that are discussed on the following topics from the Advanced Effect Maker documentation:

Entering Text Or Files
Working With Text Fields
The Flash Applet Size Parameters
URL Links and Frame Targets
Working With File Fields And File Lists
Working With Color Buttons
Working with fonts

Version history

1.1 : 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.

Anibal Wainstein