Aves Tree Navigator Version 1.3
Introduction
The Aves Tree Navigator is
a great solution for navigating complex webpages. It allows links to be grouped,
and presented as a browsable tree. The Aves Tree Navigator is intuitive
and easy to use, and can improve the accessability of your homepage.
To the left of this text, you can see the Tree Navigator in use.
The principle of the Tree Navigator is the same as in the Windows Explorer,
and file browsers on other systems, but where nodes in the Explorer
represents files, the nodes of the Navigator Tree represents links to web
pages. If a user clicks the icon to the left of a node, the node opens, and
reveals the next level of nodes. If the user clicks the text of the node, the
browser is redirected to the chosen page (this page may actually be displayed in
a different frame, allowing the Navigator Tree to stay visible).
This product is free for non-commercial use. For information about commercial
licensing, see the Commercial information
section. You may also choose to purchase a private license. If you
wish to do so follow this link. The only difference
between the unlicensed version and the licensed versions is that the link to
Aves pages is not precent in the licensed
version.
Changes
Changes since version 1.2
- New default icons. The old black icons have been
replaced by some fancier ones.
- New configuration commands:, fontname, fontsize, and
fontstyle, which allows you to alter the font used to display the node names
- Microhelp can now be multilined. simply include
newline characters '\n' in the text. Also the position of the microhelp is now
fixed just below the node name. Earlier it followed the mouse location,
but this often caused the help text to be displayed outside the applets window.
- New configuration command microtime, which determines
how long the mouse must hover over a node before the microhelp is displayed
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New configuration command revealurl which determines if the URL of the link
which the mouse hovers over should be displayed in the browsers status line.
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New configuration commands: backgroundimage
and scalebackground, which will allow you to display an image in the background.
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The underline command is now also allowed within node definitions
Changes since version 1.1
- New configuration commands: raiseimage and
selectimage, which defines what images to display for each node when the mouse
hovers over the node, or the node is selected.
- In the free version of the Tree Navigator the hardcoded links to Aves's
pages are replaced by a much more anonymous link. The commercial version still
don't display any links to Aves's pages.
Changes since version 1.0
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New applet parameters: "show" and "select" to allow
the Tree Navigator to be initialized with a particular node selected.
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New configuration commands: tag, raise, image and
scroll. Most notably, the raise command allows nodes to change appearance
whenever the mouse passes over.
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The highlight configuration command has changed
format.
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Optimizations has made the applet 2 kb smaller in spite of the improvements.
Know bugs and limitations
- Aves Tree Navigator will only work in browsers which supports JDK 1.1,
This includes Microsoft Internet Explorer version 4.0 and later and Netscape
Navigator version 4.1 and later. The JDK implementation in Netscape 4.0 and
4.04 are extremely limited and buggy, and Aves Tree Navigator will not run in
these browsers.