About The ultimate java resource for cascading menus. Unique benefits include:  superior performance  higher scalability  greater optical impact  faster development  true frame-crossing NEW version: 1.30 Directions  Home  Products  Feature comparison  Prices  Contact  Company  Help Menu Selector Drop-down menuPop-out menuReverse-popPop-upDrop-barPop-bar ClassicT-FlashS-FlashXP-2001XP-3000Aqua-BAqua-TAqua-BTIridium-IIridium-IIPlasma-VPlasma-IBlacklineWhitelineTrad-3D1Trad-3D2 LiteProfessionalEnterprise With menu makerWithout menu maker Product levels  Alien Menus Lite  Alien Menus Professional  Alien Menus Enterprise  All levels Menu Types  Drop-down menus  Pop-out menus  Reverse-pop menus  Pop-up menus  Drop-bar menus  Pop-bar menus  All types Menu Theme Sets  Classic menus  T-Flash menus  S-Flash menus  XP-2001 menus  XP-3000 menus  Aqua-B menus  Aqua-T menus  Aqua-BT menus  Iridium-I menus  Iridium-II menus  Plasma-V menus  Plasma-I menus  Blackline menus  Whiteline menus  Trad-3D1 menus  Trad-3D2 menus  All themes  More themes  Custom themes Partner sites  imint.com  happymenus.com  qedoc.com Alien Menus - Comparison   The following table provides a feature overview and comparison of the various Alien Menus. Where relevant, features are hyperlinked to instructions for their use or to further relevant information. Brevity and the nature of a table may give rise to inaccuracy or mistake, so please make use of the free trial downloads to ensure that your favourite feature does what you hope.   Feature Lite Professional Enterprise Submenus Available submenu levels 2 8 12 Frame-crossing Window-crossing Submenus stay above form elements Submenus graphically styled to match top level Optional horizontal or vertical stacking of items in submenus Optional rising or reverse (right-to-left) cascades Automated scrolling of oversize submenus Content delivery Maximum entries 50 1000 no internal limit Scalability medium very high phenomenal Supports scripted menu content from PHP - Supports scripted menu content from ASP - Supports scripted menu content from JSP - Supports scripted menu content from CFML - Supports database-derived menu content (via server-side scripting) - Supports accented and extended characters Supports non-Roman (including DBCS) characters sets - Supports zip-compressed menu content streams (accelerates loading by approximately 10 times) - Supports XML-formatted menu content - - Supports client-side delivery of menu content from parameters - Supports XIXL format - fully compatible with imint.com and happymenus.com menu content Menu item formatting (use the online configuration tool to format the menu) True-type font support User-configurable font size User-configurable font face User-configurable font weight User-configurable text alignment User-configurable text italics - User-configurable text underlining - User-configurable text shadows - Triple-state menu items (default, rollover, selected) User-configurable text colour scheme User-configurable menu item colour scheme Stylesheet support - Max. number of styles in stylesheet - 8 12 Styles are locked to level - - Styles can be assigned individually to menu items - - Themes available 16 16 16 Icons Support for user-defined icons (GIF/JPG) Individual icons for each entry if desired All icons with optional rollover state Transparent icons (GIF only) Icon-only menu items indirectly allow menu items to be constructed from images rather than text Intelligent memory-optimisation techniques for icon usage Menu item and submenu layout Separators (most themes) Automated menu item layout Automated line-wrapping Manual line-wrapping with § character Intelligent automated calculation of user-friendly submenu layouts, combining scrolling and line-wrapping to maximize usability of submenus Actions which can be attached to menu items Menu items trigger standard hyperlinks Menu items trigger loading of pages into other frames Menu items can trigger multiple hyperlinks with one click Menu items can trigger chains of multiple commands Menu items can trigger playing of audio files A click on a menu item can be defined to load fresh menu content without reloading the page - - Complex hyperlinks can be automatically URL-encoded - - Menu items can trigger user-defined client-side javascripts using an onClick function Menu items can trigger user-defined client-side javascripts using an onMouseEnter function Menu items can trigger user-defined client-side javascripts using an onMouseExit function Checkbox support Ability to turn menu items into checkbox menu items - - Styled checkboxes to match themes - - Ability to group checkbox menu items so that only one of a group can be selected ("radio button" functionality) - - Checkboxes can be pre-checked when menu starts - - Checkboxes can be externally modified from client-side scripts at runtime - - Checkbox states can be queried by client-side scripts at runtime - - User-defined function can be triggered by any check action - - Extended client-side scripting API with exposed methods for combining the menu with client-side scripting - - Supports embedded ID tags for tracking specific menu items - - Runtime adding, cutting, copying, querying and editting of menu items - - Miscellaneous features Online WYSIWYG visual point-and-click configuration tool Detailed error reporting system Backwards compatible with Microsoft VM Backwards compatible with Symantec VM for Netscape 4.5-4.7 Compatible with MRJ for OS X Compatible with JRE

Alien Menus - The Future of Site Navigation © Image Intelligence Software Ltd. 2003-2005 Home  ::  Products  ::  Company  ::  Contact    Legal agreement and privacy policy covering use of this site