Text Menu FX
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
- FREE ARCHIVE
- - Fully functional, no limitations
- - Easy to install on any website without Flash
- - XML configurable
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COMMERCIAL ARCHIVE
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) - - customizable AS3 components for new or current Adobe Flash projects
- DETAILS
- FREE INSTALL
- FLASH INSTALL
- LICENSE
Non-Flash users:
To install this component for FREE in your website read the step by step instructions
Flash users:
If you want to use this component in a new or existing Flash project, read the Flash installation details
How to install this Text Menu on your website
Step 1. SWF embedding
Download the textmenu.zip archive and put all the files from this archive 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 commercial archive available at FlashComponents.net
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 commercial archive
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 instalation 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 dispach events, but stay tuned for an update.
| Personal License (details ...) | 10 USD | Add to cart |
By purchasing a "Personal License" you are entitled to use this product in one website or other multimedia project, personal or non-commercial work. If you want to use it in multiple personal websites you will have to purchase a license for each personal website or you can purchase the Special License below. This license applies for a single person/company/organization. If you want to use this product for your clients then you will need to purchase a suitable license for each of your clients. If the website or project in which this product will be included generates money in any form then you will need to purchase the "Commercial License" below. You may not redistribute or resell this product as a whole or in parts, but you may modify its contents.
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| Commercial License (details ...) | 27 USD | Add to cart |
By purchasing a "Commercial License" you are entitled to use this product in one commercial website or other multimedia project. If you (or your company) want to use it in multiple commercial websites you will have to purchase a license for each website or you can purchase the Special License below. This license applies for a single person/company/organization. If you want to use this product for your clients then you will need to purchase a suitable license for each of your clients. You may not redistribute or resell this product as a whole or in parts, but you may modify its contents. |
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| Special License (details ...) | 78 USD | Add to cart |
By purchasing a "Special License" you are entitled to use this product in an unlimited number of websites or other multimedia projects, personal OR commercial projects. This license applies for a single person/company/organization. If you want to use this product for your clients then you will need to purchase a suitable license for each of your clients. You may not redistribute or resell this product as a whole or in parts, but you may modify its contents. |
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