free package
Fully functional, no restrictions
Easy to install on any website
XML customizable
GPL Licensed
Watermarked :
paid package
NO watermark:
plus a Flash component (AS3) which can be used in Flash projects
Features
- unlimited number of text items
- customizable menu width and height (up to 1680x1050)
- possibility to embed multiple fonts
- any menu and text orientation and align
- use any colors and roll over effects
- choose the item expanding direction and scale ratio
- text padding inside item
- item corner radius
- specify URL and target for each item in the XML file
- different tween functions and durations for expanding and color tween effects
Installation instructions for:
How to install this Text Menu on your website
Step 1. SWF embedding
Download the textmenu.zip package and put all the files from this package into the same folder with the HTML file in which you want the component to be embedded.
You should know first of all that the SWF file is the one that actually represents the component, while the other files (settings.xml, menu.xml) are the assets that the SWF file uses.
A short explanation on how SWFs and XMLs interacts you will find here.
Open your HTML file with a text editor and insert somewhere between the <head> </head> tags the following lines:
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var flashvars = {};
var params = {};
params.scale = "noscale";
params.salign = "tl";
params.wmode = "transparent";
var attributes = {};
swfobject.embedSWF("textmenu.swf", "TextMenuDiv", "600", "260", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);
</script>
For a fast and easy publishing, the best thing to do is to have the SWF file, the HTML file which embeds the SWF, the swfobject.js file, and the assets that the SWF uses (XML files) in the same folder.
If that is not possible, please read this detailed article on how to specify the paths correctly.
The above code itself isn’t enough to publish the SWF file on your webpage. You just need to add a div somewhere in the body section of your page (between the <body> </body> tags of your HTML file).
So, in a specific location of your HTML body section insert this div:
<div id="TextMenuDiv"></div>
Step 2. Customization
You’ll be able to define a maximum size of 1680 in width and 1050 in height in the 3rd and 4th arguments of the swfobject.embedSWF() function above. Usually the same values as for menuWidth and menuHeight (which you will set below).
Now you will have to define the properties of your Text Menu.
You can do that by editing the settings.xml file, or much simpler, set your values on the Live Demo above and press Generate button, then select all (Ctrl+A) and copy-paste over the existing content of settings.xml file.
If you intend to have multiple Text Menus on the same page, for the same textmenu.swf file you’ll need to have different settings. Please read here how publish a component twice on the same page.
Now all you have to do is to put your own text and add the behavior for when clicking each text item. All these through the menu.xml file. Open the XML file with a text editor and define in each row the text item, the URL to go to when clicking the item and the target (_self for the same browser window, or _blank for a new browser window).
You can have as many text items as you like. To add a new item add a new row in the XML file.
If you’ll want to use the Text Menu in Flash projects (FLA files), the Text Menu is available as a Flash component (MXP file) in the paid package
Instructions on how to use the Text Menu component in Flash you will find here.
To be able to remove the FlashXML.net label from the top-left corner you will need to purchase the paid package
Make sure your Wordpress version is greater than 2.8 and your hosting provider is using PHP5.
1. There are two files to download:
a. WordPress Plugin that you have to install and activate
b. Free package
2. Create a new folder inside your wp-content folder called flashxml, inside this folder create a new one called text-menu-fx and copy the content of the free package there
3. If you copied the free package to a location different than the one above, go to Text Menu FX from the Settings tab from your WordPress Dashboard and update the path accordingly
4. Add [text-menu-fx][/text-menu-fx] where you want the Flash to show up in your post/page.
5. If you want to make the Text Menu FX part of your theme, edit the template files and add <?php textmenufx_echo_embed_code(); ?> where you want it to show up
6. Customize your Text Menu FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite wp-content/flashxml/text-menu-fx/settings.xml
Additional settings file
To embed the Text Menu FX more than once, you will need another settings file. Let's assume your new file is called settings2.xml. Add [text-menu-fx settings="settings2.xml"][/text-menu-fx] where you want the Flash to show up in your post/page. If you made the Flash part of your theme, add the file name as the first argument of the textmenufx_echo_embed_code() function call (for example <?php textmenufx_echo_embed_code("settings2.xml"); ?>).
No Flash support text
To support visitors without Adobe Flash Player, you can provide alternative content by adding the text between [text-menu-fx] and [/text-menu-fx]. If you made the Flash part of your theme, add the text as the second argument of the textmenufx_echo_embed_code() function call (for example <?php textmenufx_echo_embed_code("","Alternative content"); ?>).
If you have PHP4
To make it work with PHP4, add [text-menu-fx width="600" height="300"][/text-menu-fx] where you want the Flash to show up in your post/page. If you made the Flash part of your theme, add the width and height as the third and fourth argument of the textmenufx_echo_embed_code() function call. Don't forget to provide your own width and height values, since 600 and 300 are just examples.
Getting rid of the FlashXML.net label
To remove the FlashXML.net label from the top-left corner you'll need to buy the paid package. Once you'll do that, simply use the SWF file from the paid package to overwrite the SWF file from the wp-content/flashxml/text-menu-fx/ folder.
Make sure your Joomla version is 1.5 and your hosting provider is using PHP5.
Joomla Module Instructions:
1. There are two files to download (both under GPL License):
a. Joomla Module that you have to install and enable
b. Free package
2. Create a new folder inside your Joomla folder called flashxml, inside this folder create a new one called textmenufx and copy the content of the free package there
3. If you copied the free package to a location different than the one above, update the Path from module's parameters accordingly
4. Customize your Text Menu FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite flashxml/textmenufx/settings.xml
Joomla Plugin Instructions:
1. There are two files to download (both under GPL License):
a. Joomla Plugin that you have to install and enable
b. Free package
2. Create a new folder inside your Joomla folder called flashxml, inside this folder create a new one called textmenufx and copy the content of the free package there
3. If you copied the free package to a location different from the one above, update the Path from module's parameters accordingly
4. Add {textmenufx}{/textmenufx} where you want the Flash to show up in your article
5. Customize your Text Menu FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite flashxml/textmenufx/settings.xml
6. The default name for the settings file is settings.xml, but if you want to use another file (for example settings2.xml), specify the name like this: {textmenufx settings="settings2.xml"}{/textmenufx} where you want the component to show up in your article
7. In some cases the width and height will not be read from the settings.xml file but you can specify them like this: {textmenufx width="400" height="300"}{/textmenufx}. Don't forget to provide your own width and height values, since 400 and 300 are just examples.
Getting rid of the FlashXML.net label
To remove the FlashXML.net label from the top-left corner you'll need to buy the paid package.
Once you will do that, simply use the SWF file from the paid package to overwrite the SWF file from the flashxml/textmenufx/ folder.
Below you will see instructions on how to install and use the Text Menu Component in Flash (available for Flash CS3, CS4, and Flash Player 9 or later).
For basic instructions on how to integrate the Text Menu’s SWF file into HTML/PHP, click here.
You can watch an installation video tutorial of a very similar component in Flash (3D Carousel Menu FX) by clicking here.
In this video you will see:
- how to create an instance of the component on the stage: from the Components panel (Ctrl+F7) drag & drop the component on the stage
- how to give a name to that instance for further use in ActionScript: click on the component instance on the stage and from the Properties panel (Ctrl+F3) enter a name in the text input
- how to access the properties of the component (read or modify) during different moments of your Flash application
Any property of the Component could be accessed that way. The names of the properties are identical with the ones from the settings.xml file.
The properties of the component can be of any of the three types: Number, String, Boolean. We assume it’s intuitive of which type each property is.
Warning! Setting the parameters of the component in the Component Inspector window (Shift+F7) and in the same time having a settings.xml file populated with different values for each property, the properties from the settings.xml file will have priority (meaning that a parameter set in the Component Inspector will be ignored if that parameter is also defined in the XML file)
For now, this component doesn't dispatch events, but stay tuned for an update.
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Jasen
Posted 4 Months AgoIs it possible to combine these in one website.
Hi,
If you’re asking us this, than you can do it.
kenji
Posted 4 Months AgoI installed ‘text menu fx’ on my site. I got most everything working ok but…
No matter what height I call out in your config tool, the last few items of my 12 item menu are cut off and are not viewable (unusable).
You can better see the trouble in a test install of the code at http://www.humantrinity.com/test-menu.html or live in my page at
http://www.humantrinity.com
Somewhere in your code there seems to be a height restriction. please fix so I can complete my purchase – thank you
Hi,
You also need to change the width and height in the html file that embeds the swf file. Like this:
<script type="text/javascript"> var flashvars = {}; var params = {}; params.scale = "noscale"; params.salign = "tl"; params.wmode = "transparent"; var attributes = {}; swfobject.embedSWF("textmenu.swf", "TextMenuDiv", "180", "900", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes); </script>James
Posted 4 Months AgoDoes this allow you to have a sub menu appear upon clicking the buttons??
Thanks
Hi,
I’m sorry, but we don’t have this feature implemented.
Dana
Posted 4 Months AgoHello,
I have followed the instructions for the text menu component, but it is completely ignoring the flashvars.settingsXML variable, as it will not load anything unless the file ‘settings.xml’ is in the same folder. In other words, I cannot use more than one component on a page because they will both use the same settings file, irrespective of what filename I’ve specified. This looks like a bug to me.
Hi,
I checked it and it seems there is a problem. We’ll fix it soon.
But there is a solution for now. You can put the second Text Menu FX component in a subfolder of the main folder and use this line:
This way you’ll be able to have two different Text Menu FX components on the same page.
peter
Posted 4 Months AgoHi, thank you for embedding special characters in 2 swf’s which i purchased 2 months ago. I forgot to ask before is there any chance to disable the right click of mouse. Please let me know,
cheers
Hi,
In your settings.xml file.
Try to set the value of showAbout to false.
susan
Posted 4 Months AgoHi,
I just purchased the text menu. Is there any way to make the background for the menu transparent, so it appears to float over our existing webpage background? I don’t see a transparency option in any of the demos.
Thanks!
Hi,
From your settings.xml file try to set the value of backgroundColor to 0.
e.g.
guno
Posted 4 Months AgoThank you.
I bought Text Menu FX and i’m trying (for 2 days now) to publish two menus on the same page, one vertical and one horizontal, both with other images (links)
I’ve read the supportfile “publish a component twice on the same page allready”, but it still dont works.
Ive understand I only need the same “js” file and the same “swf” file.
But two different “settings.xml” files and menu.xml files.
I have different settings en menus but still have the same menu (double)!
I still cant fixe it!
this is the result: http://www.zumbafestival.nl/test.html
Please, help me!
==================================
my code:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”>
<html xmlns=“http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”>
<head>
<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=utf-8” />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type=“text/javascript” src=“swfobject.js”></script>
<script type=“text/javascript”>
var flashvars = {};
flashvars.settingsXML= “settings.xml”;
var params = {};
params.scale = “noscale”;
params.salign = “tl”;
params.wmode = “transparent”;
var attributes = {};
swfobject.embedSWF(“main.swf”, “TextMenuDiv”, “300”, “250”, “9.0.0”, false, flashvars, params, attributes);
var flashvars2 = {};
flashvars2.settingsXML= “settings2.xml”;
var params2 = {};
params2.scale = “noscale”;
params2.salign = “tl”;
params2.wmode = “transparent”;
var attributes2 = {};
swfobject.embedSWF(“main.swf”, “TextMenuDiv2”, “300”, “200”, “9.0.0”, false, flashvars2, params2, attributes2);
</script>
</head>
<body>
<table width=“100%” height=“452” border=“0” cellpadding=“0” cellspacing=“0”> <tr> <th width=“30%” align=“left” scope=“col”><img src=“frontpics/girl.jpg” width=“400” height=“150” /></th> <th width=“70%” align=“left” valign=“top” scope=“col”><div id=“TextMenuDiv2”></div> </th> </tr> <tr> <td><div id=“TextMenuDiv”></div> </td> <td></td> </tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Hi,
Could you please send me the package that you purchased from us?
I’ll check it out.
guno
Posted 4 Months Agoi would like to implement the buttons in my html website. I didnt purchase yet.
my questions: – is the menu for free or do I have to pay? – can you describe how to fix the menu in my html website?
Hi,
You’ll find here detailed explanations on how to publish this component on your website.
kavitama
Posted 5 Months AgoYes please!
fensch
Posted 5 Months AgoHi,
I faced the same problem than Chas
I want to insert an another font: Bank Gothic
could you help me?
Thanks in advance
Hi,
Please send me the archive that you downloaded from us and the font that you wish to embed, to support at flashxml.net.
I’ll embed the font for you.