Turn around your menu items using this 3D menu. It supports background images for both the applet and the menu items and you can display your menu items vertically or horizontally.

Adding menu items and URLs

Enter each menu item and its corresponding back side item 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.

The menu colors

You can set a variety of colors in this menu. This menu works in two ways. You can either have a background image for all the menu items, or you can customize the existing menu item background which is built into the menu. The item background and border colors will be overridden if you specify a menu item background image. The item text and highlight colors are used for the two modes. You can set the colors for both the back and front side of the menu items.

Horizontal or Vertical placement of the menu items

This setting is important, it lets you display the menu items on a single line (horizontal mode) or on a column (vertical mode). Make sure you set the displacement parameters correctly.

Displacement, Item size and Rotation speed

The vertical and horizontal displacement are used to displace the items from the top and left sides respectively, this is measured in pixels. The horizontal displacement should be larger than the item width if you are using the horizontal menu item placement mode. The vertical displacement must be larger than the menu item height if you have deselected the horizontal mode. The menu item width and height are the dimensions of the menu items in pixels.
The rotation speed will set the speed for the turnaround effect. Values between 2-10 are recommended.

Background Images

You can specify a menu item background image for both the front and back of the menu items and a background image for the applet. These settings will override the background colors that you may specify.

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
Compression Ratios for images
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