WEBMENU - CREATING PULL DOWN MENUS ON YOUR WEB PAGES

Webmenu is a java application which creates ( or generates the necessary HTML, javascript and images ) the pulldown menus like the menus on this page.

All you have to do is create a simple file like sample.txt with the names of the menu items which page it links to and the width/height and colors for the menu. WebMenu will parse this file and generate an html page with the javascript and imagemaps for the menu along with all the image files required as jpg files.



03/14/2000 WEBMENU UPDATE - After a long delay, Webmenu Milestone 2 is getting ready for release with cleaned up code, support for menu colors, and an imageinfo file to use with external image editors. Also in the pipeline is NEONFLY the GUI front end to Webmenu using SWING.





Tokyo - Webmenu early alpha release

tokyo.jar Is an alph release ( Milestone 1) with th basic functionality of webmenu, it works but not all features are there yet and there is not much GUI interaction it only parses the sample file and generates the html and image files.

Please read the README for the dependencies and usage info.

Here is the API documentation for WebMenu



See Webmenu in action !

This is the sample input file released with tokyo.jar and this is how the resulting menus will look.These are the generated files.



TODO

There should be a couple of Milestone releases before a stabe beta release in early 2000.

A fat client version using SWING will eliminate the need for the input file you can interactively edit the menu options using the GUI. The input file option will also be available.

An applet version for online usage and maybe also a servelet implementation.

A lite version without the GUI and image file generation. The image files can be created using an image editing tool. Webmenu will give you the dimensions and names of the image files to be created.

An XML file format for saving the menu information and a processing engine using a standard XML parser.