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GraphicMenu
allows you to easily combine custom graphics to build a dynamic
navigation menu.
Please,
do not be fooled. It is your responsibility to provide the
images necessary to construct a GraphicMenu. Without images
supplied by you, the component is absolutely useless.
To
better explain the image requirements, take a look at the
example.
To
create that one example, it was necessary to create eleven
different images. They are the following:
|
Item
|
Menu
Closed
|
Menu
Open, Normal
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Menu
Open, Highlighted
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| Home |
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| Page
1 |
n/a
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| Page
2 |
n/a
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| Page
3 |
n/a
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| Page
4 |
n/a
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Key
Points:
- All
menu items require two images: a highlighted state and a
non-highlighted state. In addition, the menu title (in this
case "Home") requires an additional graphic that
will be visible when the menu is closed.
- All
"states" of a menu item must be the exact same
size. That means, if the "Normal" image is 100x25
pixels, the "Highligted" image has to be 100x25
pixels (and in the case of the Menu Title, the "Menu
Closed" state has to be 100x25 pixels).
- All
menu items must have the exact same width (excludes Menu
Title). That means if the first item is 100 pixels wide,
all proceeding menu items must have a width of 100 pixels.
- Image
height can vary from menu item to menu item.
- The
Menu Title can be of a different height and width than that
of the menu items.
Getting
started with GraphicMenu is easy!
- Run
the installation program. Check the box next to the version(s) of Fusion that you have installed on your machine (4/5/MX/7).
- Launch
Fusion.
- If
the coolmaps.com component toolbar is not visible choose
View > Toolbars > Component Tools > coolmaps advanced
- Select
the GraphicMenu component and drag it out to an area on
the page.
The
GraphicMenu Properties now appears in Fusion's properties
palette.
Please
note that GraphicMenu is modular. In order to create a single
menu bar, it is necessary to drop an instance of GraphicMenu
for each menu you want on the menu bar. After configuring
each menu, you can then arrange them so that they create a
menu bar.
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