VMaxNavII Applet

Hides tonns of links in a small applet, Save space on your page and make it easy to navigate. It's an easy way to maintain your site using a virtual tree structure. And, yes, it's ... Absolutely Free Free version will add link back to my pages at the end of the menu.

See this applet in action in the control frame of the frameset.

Features:
Unlimited sub levels.
Unlimited custom icon images and backgrounds
Two Ways to define menu structure

Loading of the tree structure from external TEXT file makes easy to maintain your links.
Loading from HTML file (with some additional tags) allows you to use the same html file for text-only index of your site and for this applet menu structure source. Isn't it a good idea?

Unlimited menu item appearance schemes including:

Custom background image
Highlight and text colors
4 state indicating icons for highlight (mouse over) and passive states

for both opened and closed states
EACH MENU ITEM can use:

URL links and frame TARGET name for both: menu folders and items.
Any of user defineable appearance schemes.

Customizable slide speed.
Left and right Tree orientations
Menu scroll with simple mouse Drag.

Applet Usage Example

<APPLET CODE="vmaxnavii.class" WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=400>
<PARAM NAME="AUTHOR"       VALUE="Virtual_Max (http://come.to/vmax)">
<PARAM NAME="KEY">         VALUE="FREE VERSION"
<PARAM NAME="DELAY"        VALUE="50">
<PARAM NAME="STEP"         VALUE="8"> 
<PARAM NAME="URL"          VALUE="vmaxnavii.txt">
<PARAM NAME="LEVELXOFFSET" VALUE="25">
<PARAM NAME="TEXTCOLOR"    VALUE="c0c080">
<PARAM NAME="ACTIVECOLOR"  VALUE="00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="BGCOLOR"      VALUE="000000">

<!--PARAM NAME="ALIGN"        VALUE="RIGHT"-->
<PARAM NAME="IMAGE0"       VALUE="vmaxnavup.gif">
<PARAM NAME="IMAGE1"       VALUE="vmaxnavright.gif">
<PARAM NAME="IMAGE2"       VALUE="vmaxnavdown.gif">
<PARAM NAME="IMAGE3"       VALUE="vmaxnavleft.gif">
<PARAM NAME="IMAGE4"       VALUE="vmaxnavbg0.gif">
<PARAM NAME="IMAGE5"       VALUE="vmaxnavbg1.gif">
<PARAM NAME="IMAGE6"       VALUE="vmaxnavromb.gif">
<PARAM NAME="IMAGE7"       VALUE="vmaxnavround.gif">
<PARAM NAME="IMAGE8"       VALUE="vmaxnavroundred.gif">
<PARAM NAME="IMAGE9"       VALUE="vmaxnavapplets.gif">
<PARAM NAME="IMAGE10"      VALUE="vmaxnavscripts.gif">
<PARAM NAME="IMAGE11"      VALUE="vmaxnavbetween.gif">
<PARAM NAME="IMAGE12"      VALUE="vmaxnavfaqs.gif">
<PARAM NAME="IMAGE13"      VALUE="vmaxnavbg3.gif">
<PARAM NAME="IMAGE14"      VALUE="vmaxnavbg4.gif">

<PARAM NAME="USESCHEMES"   VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME0"      VALUE="9 |1 |3 |2 |0  |Dialog,1,12 |c0c080 |00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME1"      VALUE="4 |1 |3 |2 |0  |Dialog,1,14 |ffff80 |00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME2"      VALUE="5 |7 |6 |8 |3  |Dialog,1,12 |c0c080 |00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME3"      VALUE="13|7 |  |8 |   |Dialog,1,10 |808080 |00ff00">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME4"      VALUE="5 |7 |6 |8 |3  |Dialog,1,12 |80c0c0 |00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME5"      VALUE="5 |7 |6 |8 |3  |Dialog,1,12 |c080c0 |00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME6"      VALUE="5 |7 |6 |8 |3  |Dialog,1,12 |80c080 |00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME7"      VALUE="5 |7 |6 |8 |3  |Dialog,1,12 |c08080 |00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME8"      VALUE="10|1 |3 |2 |0  |Dialog,1,12 |c0c080 |00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME9"      VALUE="4 |1 |3 |2 |0  |Dialog,1,12 |c0c080 |00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME10"     VALUE="5 |7 |  |8 |   |Dialog,1,12 |c08080 |00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME11"     VALUE="4 |7 |  |8 |   |Dialog,1,12 |c0c080 |00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME12"     VALUE="11|1 |3 |2 |0  |Dialog,1,12 |c0c080 |00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME13"     VALUE="4 |7 |  |8 |   |Dialog,1,12 |c08080 |00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME14"     VALUE="12|1 |3 |2 |0  |Dialog,1,12 |c0c080 |00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME15"     VALUE="4 |7 |  |8 |   |Dialog,1,12 |80c080 |00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME16"     VALUE="14|7 |  |8 |   |Dialog,1,12 |c0c080 |00ffff">
<PARAM NAME="SCHEME17"     VALUE="14|1 |3 |2 |0  |Dialog,1,12 |c0c080 |00ffff">

</APPLET>

Parameter	Description
AUTHOR	"Virtual_Max (http://come.to/vmax)" Obligatory parameter
KEY	"Free Version" Obligatory parameter Free Version will always add a link back to my pages. Please, follow the registration instructions if you want to get rid of this..
TEXTCOLOR ACTIVECOLOR TEXTCOLOR	All Colors are in hexadecimal format 'rrggbb', same as HTML colors format but without the # hexadecimal radix symbol. For example, for red color use: FF0000.
DELAY STEP	Scrolling step in pixels and animation frame delay time.
LEVELXOFFSET	Level offset in pixels (recommended to have this value equal to icons width)
ALIGN	Optional, parameter if defined as RIGHT tree will be right oriented. If omitted or defined as any other, tree will be left oriented.
URL	URL of the menu file structure, Applet will fetch out menu structure in different ways depending on the file extension. For TEXT file with .txt extension Each line of this file is responsible for one menu item in the applet. Number of spaces from the beginning of the line to ">" character corresponds to depth level of menu item. After this follows four fields separated by "\|" symbol, MenuItemText \| url \| targetframename \| appearanceSchemeName Complete version of vmaxnavii.txt for curious people For use with HTML file some extra HTML code required. One can take a look into the HTML source of my vmaxnavii3.html file to understand better explanations below.
IMAGE0.. IMAGEn	Enumerated images for use with this applet, Enumeration should starts with 0 and have no missed numbers.
USESCHEMES	Obligatory parameter, do not change it.
SCHEME0.. SCHEMEn	Any other Schemes names can be used, but take care not to interfere with other parameters' names, I used numbered names, but one can use more self explaining names for various schemes. Each scheme value includes following fields separated by "\|" character ItemBackgroundImage # Closed passive state overlay icon # Opened passive state icon # Closed highlight icon # Opened highlight icon # Font Settings including Fontname, FontStyle,FontSize Passive state text color Highlight state text color
DEBUG	This parameter is for the debug state only, If this parameter appears among parameters passed to applet, Applet will print menu structure parsing the results to the Java Console. Its value can be anything. This one is useful to debug menu structure in case of some problems. Don't forget to remove this parameter before on-line placing.

Here is a truncated example of a menu structure TEXT file:

Menu Item and level ptr  URL(full or relative)   targetframe  Scheme#
---------------------------------------------------------------------
First Item Missing text title, it use specific image instead.
>                       |defaultjava.html        |mainwindow   |SCHEME0
 >Text Tools            |                        |             |SCHEME1
  >VMaxTicker           |vmaxticker.html         |mainwindow   |SCHEME2
  >VMaxTickerFile       |vmaxtickerfile.html     |mainwindow   |SCHEME2
   >Download            |license.html            |mainwindow   |SCHEME3
 >Buttons and Menu      |                        |             |SCHEME1 
  >VMaxButtons          |vmaxbuttons_lite.html   |mainwindow   |SCHEME4
  >MenuButtons          |menubutton.html         |mainwindow   |SCHEME4 
 >Image and Effects     |                        |             |SCHEME1 
  >ImageWave            |imagewave.html          |mainwindow   |SCHEME5
  >ImageWaveMap         |imagewavemap.html       |mainwindow   |SCHEME5
Here again Item which use image  
>                       |defaultscript.html      |mainwindow   |SCHEME8
 >Cut'n'paste scripts   |                        |             |SCHEME9 
  >Cookie functions     |cookie.html             |mainwindow   |SCHEME10
  >Sounding links       |soundlink.html          |mainwindow   |SCHEME10 
 >Tips & Tricks         |javascripttricks.html   |mainwindow   |SCHEME11 
Here is 'normal' Items on the root level of menu  
>Links for Developers   |javalinks.html          |mainwindow   |SCHEME16
>Feedback Loop          |                        |             |SCHEME17
 >Guestbook             |geobook.html            |mainwindow   |SCHEME11
 >Email                 |email.html              |mainwindow   |SCHEME11

How to use the HTML parsing feature

Probably one would like to use HTML syntax to reduce the site maintenance work. Webmasters can create a site map HTML file which can also serve as menu source file for this applet. The applet recognizes .htm and html extensions, in this case the applet would search through the HTML code for special tags and use these tags to build a menu structure. Any existing HTML tag can be added to the menu if this tag contains 'magic' word VMAXNAV inside

For example:

<A HREF="some.html" TARGET="mywindow" VMAXNAV="0,SCHEME0">Some Text here</A>

When the applet meets a tag containing VMAXNAV between < and > it makes an attempt to fetch out values of HREF field for this tag, TARGET of this tag and value for VMAXNAV.
First it will be used as menu item link url, as well as a target will work as a target frame or window name. If the TARGET omitted the '_self' value will be used as the default.
VMAXNAV value contains two obligatory fields: number of level and scheme name to be used for this menu item. The third field is optional and can be omitted or equal to 'notext'. Last one, if used , informs applet that background image in the scheme already has the complete information, and no text title should be added to menu item. The example link below will be added to the applet menu at the first sub level with empty text.
Example:

<A HREF="some.html" TARGET="mywindow" VMAXNAV="1,SCHEME0,notext"> .....

Now one can ask me, where will the applet get the text for menu item, if any required. Answer is easy, It will take all of the text after this tag end before the beginning of next HTML tag.
Example:

<A HREF="some.html" TARGET="mywindow" VMAXNAV="3,SCHEME0">This Text will be added<BR>And this wouldn't</A>

All above examples use <A ... > tag. But one can use any other HTML tag. If one wants to add folder to menu which shouldn't be linked to any document headlines tags (H1, H2 ...) can be used or even FONT tag.
Example:

<FONT SIZE=+1 VMAXNAV="0,SHEME3">Folder Name</FONT>

In this case there will be no document linked to the menu item and so no need in target frame for a name. Font size doesn't matter, only VMAXNAV value will play role, and text before next '<' character.

Curious one can look inside vmaxnavii3.html HTML source as an example.