Sothink DHTML Menu

Sothink DHTML Menu 8.3, Build: 71210

Function Enhanced:

• Modify the saving path of image library, template and item style on non-Win98 systems.

Fixed bugs:

• The surround has displayed with mistakes sometimes when web page are using strict dtd.
  
• Border with dotted lines has occurred sometimes when using Keyboard Navigation function.
• Sometimes when pressing Ctrl + l to add a new item in preview window with edit mode selected, the select border of item disappeared.
• Special effect Rectangle did not work sometimes when hiding menu.

Sothink DHTML Menu 8.2, Build: 71113

Function Enhanced:

• Support Keyboard Navigation function, which enables user to control the menu by using the keyboard.
• Add advanced function to both Menu Item Setting and Separator Setting. It appends the option "Disable" to hide certain items or separators.
• Add 4 new built-in templates.
  
• Upgrade plug-in from 3.0 to 3.1 for Dreamweaver.
• Optimize the Right to left function.
  
• Add several buttons on the toolbar of menu tree panel.

Fixed bugs:

• Failed to pop up the "Save As" dialog when an imported *.stm file was saved under WIN98.
  
• When working with Dreamweaver Library, the menu code has some errors.
  
• The border of item disappears when finishing inputting content in the item in preview window with edit mode selected.
• Displayed menu with confused structure in Konqueror.

Sothink DHTML Menu 8.1, Build: 70827

Function Enhanced:

• Upgrade plug-ins from 3.0 to 3.1 for FrontPage and from 1.5 to 1.6 for Expression Web
• Add Web path setting in Resource Folder panel to set the path for resource files. After entering "Global > Resource Folder", click the button to switch to the Web Path setting panel.
• Add an option in dialog "Options > General" to save *.pgt file without copying resources.

Fixed bugs:

• Encode incorrectly in the paths of Site Root and JavaScript files when the option "Encode special character" was unchecked in Global > Advanced > Encode.
• When previewing in IE browser, the height of the separator in horizontal menu changed if the menu was inserted within a table.  

Sothink DHTML Menu 8.0, Build: 70807

Function Enhanced:

• The Attractive User Interface
  The attractive user interface comes out with new release! It has improved the fashionable skin, the reasonable layout and handy editing. Flexible panel layout makes sure you can edit the menu in the favorite way; edit and modify the menu in tree-list panel or preview window; and click the buttons on the toolbar to refresh, preview or publish the menu directly. With the brand-new interface, building menu becomes more easy and simple.
• Full Edit Mode
  Full edit mode is a more visual way to create the menu. While in the Edit Mode, you can directly edit on your menu in the preview window, but not just preview your menu. In edit mode, you can right-click the selected item and choose "Edit Item Text" to input the content or just double click the item and input the content directly.
• Resource Folder
  Resource folder helps the users to set the JavaScript and image folder for resource files used in the menu, which makes sure the same menu display exactly within multi-page of different folders, and also you can preview the menu locally or on the web. After setting these folders, our program will do the rest of the things for you --- copy all menu files to the defined folders, no matter you use the program alone or within Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Expression Web or Golive.
• Publish
  Publish is the vital step to insert the menu into web page. All the publish options are visible in the interface. Following the tips on the dialog to set the corresponding folder and do some operations, you can insert the menu into web page easily. In comparison with old step-by-step publish wizard, this is clear and brief publishing method.
  
• Tips of the Day
  Tips of the Day gives you tips & tricks about using the program, which shows at the start of the program. It helps you to use the program better, get the related information easily and grasp the usage method quickly. View these tips carefully; you will get the unknown skills before.
• Encoding
  Encoding can encode menu in the proper language when inputting the characters different from your default system language, and make the menu display correctly in the program and preview page.
  
• Multi-Column Menu

  Arranging long pop up menu items in a table in group, you can use the multi-column menu function to organize your menu items orderly. The horizontal or vertical popup menu is supported. And the multi-row menu effect can also be reached.
  




• Copy and Paste Properties between Different *.pgt Files
  Duplicate menu items from one menu to another menu in different program windows by just Copy and Paste, the properties of menu items can be copied too. And even, you can re-arrange menu's structure in new menu window by this function.
• Import Sothink Tree Menu Authoring File (*.stm).
  Supports switching to drop-down menu from tree-like menu by importing the authoring file (*.stm) of Sothink Tree Menu. New popup menu has the same properties with tree-like menu, including text content, text type, link, target, status, tip text.
• New Special Effects -- Rectangle
  Show or hide sub-menu with the effect rectangle, which is supported by all compatible browsers. And the effect box also can be customized by setting the border properties for the popup menu.
  
  
• New Templates
  Add new templates, modify the present style in the built-in templates and re-arrange the existing templates.
• Support W3C Valid XHTML 1.0
  W3C Valid XHTML 1.0 has validated the menu code generated by Sothink DHTML Menu, which proves that these codes in format are compliant to W3C recommendations and other standards.
• Upgrade plug-ins from 2.6 to 3.0 for Dreamweaver, from 1.0 to 1.5 for Expression Web, from 2.7 to 3.0 for FrontPage, and from 1.6 to 2.0 for Golive.
• Divide "Blank Menu" from "File > New" into "Horizontal Menu" and "Vertical Menu".
• In edit mode, the linked URL will be opened in new window when clicking the menu item in preview window with Ctrl and Alt down.
• Add the option "Display Direction" into the dialog "Append Sub Item".
• Support setting the property "transparent" in Firefox.
• Make "Global - Link Prefix" into new property panel.
• Delete the option "User default context menu of Internet Explorer" in dialog "Options > Preview".
• Add an option to correct the links begin with "file:///" if Site Root is set as the same directory in dialog "Options > General".
• Add the useful shortcuts to create the menu quickly.
  

Sothink DHTML Menu 7.3, Build: 70329

Function Enhanced:

• Supply a new add-in program that supports Microsoft Expression Web.
• Add 19 new templates and a new type "Clone" in built-in templates.
• "Stretch whole menu width" function is optimized. With the option checked, the default width of each menu item of the top level will be auto adjusted evenly according to the Item Width value you set.
  

Tips: For previous users who used the function, to make sure the function work properly, you should set the item width for each menu item of the top level.

Sothink DHTML Menu 7.2, Build: 70212

Function Enhanced:

• Support Windows Vista.
• Upgrade plug-ins from 2.4 to 2.5 for Dreamweaver, from 2.5 to 2.6 for FrontPage, and from 1.4 to 1.5 for Golive.
• Add "Quicker Tour" in template startup window to guide the process of creating menu.
• Diversify clicking methods to show sub menu in Global Settings > General.
• Add shortcut key "Ctrl+J" for "Fast Publish JS", and set option to cancel the prompt window in Advanced > Options.
• Add a template for Valentine's Day.

Fixed bugs:

• Support Outlook agreement.
• The cross-frame popup menus lost background images and surround when they show in target frame.
  

Sothink DHTML Menu 7.1, Build: 61128

Function Enhanced:

• Add two Christmas templates.

Fixed bugs:

• When editing menu, if you have set the status text for an item with link, the status text can not show correctly.
• The nested multiple iframes will affect the auto-highlight function of menu.
• When you replace an image in Image Library, preview window does not refresh to show the new image.
• If you input incorrect value in dialog "Append Multi Sub Item" and click "Cancel", a prompt message will show instead of closing the dialog.
• If you only change the setting of option "Show this window at start" in Startup dialog, the button "OK" is gray out.
• In the "Pop Settings>Effect", the effect preview is always be refreshed when switching between this panel and others.

Sothink DHTML Menu 7.0, Build: 60906

Function Enhanced:

• Search Engine Friendly Code Maker
  Make menu's contents be found by search engine quickly; get your website more competitive; display menu content by sitemap if JavaScript is forbidden in the browser. Search Engine Friendly Code Maker assists you to reach all above-mentioned benefits without any difficulty.
• Support Google XML Sitemap
  Depending on the menu's structure and link, XML sitemap maker can generate special codes directly and save them in XML format, which are friendly to Google. After generating XML file, you can manage your website and optimize rank in Google search engine by submitting it to Google. Help to locate your website on top rank of the searched result list; raise your website exposure chances to be known by the people.
• Image Library
  Image resource can be used in the program directly. The pre-design images are grouped in four categories, icon, arrow, background and separator. It is convenient for the users to insert the image into the menu. And more customization lies in users can define one category for other usage or save your favorite image into Image Library.
• Surround
  Perfect the menu, integrating the menu image and corner image into one entity. Each corner and each side has different surround settings. Even though, the user can design a symmetric or asymmetric corner to individuate your menu.
• Effect Preview
  Something special in your menu will attract visitors. Effect is good choice to get it. The program enables users to preview the effect and speed so as to choose the optimal effect for your menu.
• Re-organized Templates
  Re-organized templates include new samples shown on the website; and the related template dialogs has been changed. They are divided into six types, Business, OS, Simple, Art, Effect, My templates. The users can use these menus directly by modifying the text or images which you need. The menu is finished in few minutes. The only thing is to choose which menu matches website better during menu creation.
• Optimize Style
  More new styles are offered. And Icon and background images can be saved to Styles.
• Fast Publish JS
  Fast generate and publish JS files and images file, which is the same resource path and settings as last saved ones. It is useful for the users who publish the menu by creating a JavaScript (*.js) include file. Having this function, you can publish the resource file rapidly.
• Append Multi Sub Items
  Add arbitrary number of sub items at one time. Input the value in the field to get the enough menu items, which is unnecessary to add the sub men items one by one.
• Support UTF-8
  Support encoding the saved JS file, and save the file in UTF-8 format.
• Upgrade Plug-ins
  Upgrade plug-ins from 2.3 to 2.4 for Dreamweaver and FrontPage, and from 1.2 to 1.3 for Golive.
• Redesigned Interface
  Make all the buttons in the interface more beautiful.

Sothink DHTML Menu 6.6, Build: 60802

Function Enhanced:

• Support IE7(Beta) and Opera 9.
• Add 11 templates in the program.
• Add link to the web page of Sothink Tree Menu by command Help > Go to > Go to Sothink Tree Menu.
• Upgrade the Dreamweaver extension from v2.2 to v2.3.
• In Publish Wizard > "Create a JavaScript (*.js) include file", add extension .asp and .php for saved files in dialog "Save as".

Fixed bugs:

• In frameset pages, the option is invalid, which is "If the content frame is invalid, display popup menu in the navigation frame instead.".
• Make wrong explanation to the symbol / (\ converted code) in link.
• Fail to auto get the js path in the browser Safari.
• Support the function "Tip Text" in the higher versions of Firefox.
• If setting em, ex and % for special Head definitions, the error comes out.

Sothink DHTML Menu 6.5, Build: 60419

Function Enhanced:

• Add "Refresh" button on the toolbar.
• Show the mouse's coordinates in the state bar when pixel is ruler's measurement units.
• Insert the item "Go to Online Templates" in Help command and append "More" button in the dialog "New from Template" to view the online templates.
• Add a new template.

Fixed bugs:

• In the program, the sub-options of "Select" button are grey out if floating the menu tree panel.
• In Edit Mode, the menu can not pop up and highlight more than the third level sub menu when "Show sub menu after clicking" is set.

Sothink DHTML Menu 6.4, Build: 60317

Function Enhanced:

• The custom cursors (file format *.cur) are available in Firefox 1.5+ on Windows.

Fixed bugs:

• The program crashes down when clicking the item that links to *.doc file in preview window with ruler.
• The custom cursor displays wrongly after publishing.
• The Edit button is invalid in the dialog of Configure External Browsers.

Sothink DHTML Menu 6.4, Build: 60227

Fixed bugs:

• Optimize the converting wizard, which can upgrade the menu code in the web pages to latest version. The old menu code is generated by version 4.0 to 6.0.
• Choosing "auto highlight current item", the function "Clear highlighted item’s link" works incorrectly.
• The icon’s width of one item affects on the other icons’ at the same level for the horizontal menu.
• On the MAC, the popup menu may not appear in IE.

Sothink DHTML Menu 6.4, Build: 60116

New Feature:

• Modify the settings of "Copy relevant resource files" in Publish Wizard.
• Change the method of moving for the scrollable menu. The menu scrolls slowly when mouse moves over scrolling arrow, and scrolls quickly when keeping scrolling arrow clicked.
• Optimize the description of web path in Help document.
• Press down the arrows on the keyboard to select the option in tasks panel.
• Add Edit button in the dialog "Configure External Browsers".
• Supplement the item "Unregistered Info" in Help command on the menu bar for the unregistered users.
• Set three shortcut keys Ctrl+T for Insert Item Before, Ctrl+M for Insert Item After and Ctrl+Q for Insert separator After.
• Support "rtsp" and "mms" protocol.
  

Fixed bugs:

• The position of the color displays wrongly if setting border color for the horizontal pop menu.
• If the static menu aligns to center or right,editing border displays incorrectly after resizing the panel in edit mode.
• Inserting the background for the menu item, the function "tile" won't be cancelled for mouse over.
• The cross-iframe menu can not auto-hide Iframe in the browser Opera.
• Using the template AniMouseup and setting Cross-frame in Iframe page which includes table, an error dialog pops up.
• Using plug-in comes out an error in Golive CS2.

Sothink DHTML Menu 6.3, Build: 51115

New Feature:

• Add ruler function in the program. Press the mouse in intersection and drag the crossing to position the coordinate origin.

Fixed bugs:

• When scrolling page down, there is an accounting mistake of the height of downward popup menu if it has been set as auto scroll to fit the window height.
• When setting shadow for popup menu item in the static menu, the menu can not show the whole shadow if including <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html14/loose.dtd"> in webpage.
• The text is too small in Firefox, Mozilla if font size of the menu shows in em, ex, %.

Sothink DHTML Menu 6.2, Build: 51011

Functions Enhanced

• Press F2 or double-click to modify the contents of text or HTML if single item is selected in menu tree. Press "Enter" key or click anywhere to save the
  modification; press "Esc" key to cancel the operation.
• Set two shortcut keys (Ctrl+P and Ctrl+I) for Insert Separator and Append Sub Menu Item.
• The unregistered version can be used in 30 days only for evaluation purpose.

Fixed bugs:

• The separator is too wide in Firefox if the page uses "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">."
• The js files come out error in Mozilla or Firefox if clicking the menu item.
• The highlight function causes higher CPU usage.
• The js files come out error if there is no "stm_ai(...)" or "stm_aix(...)" between stm_bp(...)and stm_ep(...).
• The scrollbar masks the menu in Firefox.
• The error dialog does not popup when adding non-html file as background file.
• Add tool tips for list, report, preview button in New from Template dialog.
• Add "file:///" for absolute path in link field.
• If DHTML Menu is called in Golive, some error dialogs popup when selecting cursor shape as Help shape in cursor panel and then switching between other panels and cursor panel.
• The link of the highlighted item still appears in status bar though "highlight parent menu item" and "Clear highlighted item's link" are selected.
• Unable to input single quotation in link field of menu item.
• The static menu can not align to left if the page typesetting is rtl.
• The cross-frame menus can not auto-highlight.
• Press Shift key and click the linking menu item in IE, which can not open the link in blank window.
• In cross-frame menu, an error comes out when clicking a top-level popup item that has link.
• Menu can not display in Mozilla 1.0 or Mozilla 1.1 on Windows system.
• Open a frameset page in FrontPage or Dreamweaver. If clicking the DHTML Menu widget button to insert a menu to a frame page within frameset, an error pops up.

Sothink DHTML Menu 6.1, Build: 50831

Functions Enhanced:

• Add a notice dialog when opening a PGT file created by earlier version, which tells the users some instructions.
• When opening the earlier PGT that used cross-frame function, Cross-Frame panel will show the relevant settings.

Fixed bugs:

• In version 6.0, the FrontPage add-in program can not run in FrontPage 2000.
• In Edit Mode, the red border is displayed wrongly if users position the menu center or right and resize the program window.
• When users define <td> tag in CSS files, it affects menu's font setting.
• The image can not be located center when using image as Separator.
• There is a bug if inputting "<" or ">" in link field.
• The item's position is displayed incorrectly in the generated Site Map if there is a separator in the menu.
• The dialog, "Place to display Menu", can not show on Windows 98 after selecting a page to insert a DHTML menu.
• Using cross-frame menu, the position of popup menu will offset after dragging the scrollbar of frame window.
• The menu can not show when the preference of Opera is set as "Identify as Opera".
• The browser locks up if menu's header code has been added to one page more than once.
• The delay time varies for showing horz's and vert's popup menu when setting "Delay time".
• The "auto-scroll" function may be invalid in floating menu if there are more than one DHTML menu in a same page.
• The inputted content of status can not show for the menu item without linking.
• An error comes out if user has inputted quotation marks in status content.

Sothink DHTML Menu 6.0, Build: 50810

New Feature:

• Use new engine in DHTML Menu 6.0 to speed up menu loading so it uses new js files instead of stm31.js. Please view the new compatibility.
• Optimize the JavaScript source files so they will be loaded dynamically to accelerate menu loading.
• New added edit mode for menu that enables users to view the popup menu item when configuring it.
• User can choose an HTML file as to preview the menu in it.
• Right click a menu item and choose "edit..." or double-click it to switch to menu item general panel.
• When launching the program, it will show the template list by default.
• Change the method of publishing cross-frame menu. Users do not need to paste code to each loaded page.
• Support setting the exactly scrolling width or height of popup menu.
  
• Add a new popup effect -- slip.
• Support displaying the highlighted popup item automatically.
  
• Add a new type of menu -- right-click to show menu.
• Users can set the cursor shape for linked and unlinked items.
• Users can exchange the place of icon and arrow.
• Support highlighting menu item in cross frame menu.
• Support not hiding popup menu even when mouse out.

Sothink DHTML Menu 5.2, Build: 50610

Fixed bugs:

• Can not open the link of cross-frame menu in Internet Explorer.

Sothink DHTML Menu 5.2, Build: 50603

New Features

• The program can work on Virtual PC for Mac now.

• When clicking a link targeted to a new window, the target window will
  display behind the current window.
• The 1-pixel separator of horizontal menu displays as 2-pixels in Internet
  Explorer.
• The cell padding and cell spacing work incorrectly in Netscape 4.

Sothink DHTML Menu 5.2, Build: 50525

Fixed bugs:

• When clicking Back button in IE, the separator may be twisted.
• In IE 6, if user defines the event "onbeforeunload", an error message
  will pop up when clicking the menu link.
• The panel "Task" and "Settings" can not be closed while floating.
• When moving multiple items at one time, the order of menu items may
  be changed.

Sothink DHTML Menu 5.1, Build: 50412

Fixed bugs:

• Publish Wizard does not support inserting menu into UTF-8 encoded html files.
• Moving a menu item may cause the item width or height to be lost.
• The uppercase characters in the URLs are always converted to lowercase while generating site map.
• Sometimes after user clicked the back button of Internet Explorer, the page may become misaligned.

Sothink DHTML Menu 5.1, Build: 50331

Fixed bugs:

• The setup program may crash on Windows 98 system.
• The task panel displays incorrectly if Window Blinds is used.
• The item text is too small while specifying the font size in "em".

Sothink DHTML Menu 5.0, Build: 50303

New Features

• New user-friendly interface.
• Support defining the width of horizontal menu in pixel or percentage.
• Enable to set the width and height of each menu item.
• Set the font size in inch, cm, mm, Pica(pc), em, ex or percentage and also can set the font size as xx-small, x-small, small, medium, large, x-large or xx-large.
• Support inputting values for special color such as windowtext, windowframe or blue.

Bug Fixed

• For the program:
  1. Fixed the bug that the Link Prefix and Target Frame were not applied to the links generated by the SiteMap.
  2. Fixed the bug that the image used by Separator was not added to the resource list.
  3. Fixed the bug that after you dragged and dropped a menu item, it can not be selected again in windows 2000.
• For the script:
  1. Fixed a JavaScript error prompting when using some IE browsers.
  2. Fixed a problem for a cross iframe menu that the position of its popup menu would shift a little bit while scrolling the page.

Sothink DHTML Menu 4.4, Build: 40614

New features

• Fixed some minor bugs.
• Support Konqueror 3.0+ on Linux/Unix.

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed the bug that highlight top-level items of cross-frame menu after clicked.
• Fixed a bug in item auto-highlighting.
• Fixed a bug while running the Publish Wizard on Windows 98.
• Fixed the bug of adding duplicate backslash to Script Path.
• Fixed a problem while dragging & dropping items in the menu tree.

Sothink DHTML Menu 4.4, Build: 40517

New features

• Support Konqueror 3.0+ on Linux/Unix.

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed the bug that highlight top-level items of cross-frame menu after clicked.
• Fixed a bug in item auto-highlighting.
• Fixed a bug while running the Publish Wizard on Windows 98.
• Fixed the bug of adding duplicate backslash to Script Path.
• Fixed a problem while dragging & dropping items in the menu tree.

Sothink DHTML Menu 4.3, Build: 31226

New features

• Scrollable popup menus are available (IE5.0+ supports).
• Support highlighting items that link to current page you are browsing.
• Floating menu scrolls more smoothly.
• Support specifying Script Path and Image Path separately.
• When clicking a menu link, pressing SHIFT key at the same time can open the link in new window.
• Support Safari browser on MAC OS X.

Optimized Features

• If you have not chosen the "If the content frame is invalid, display popup menu in the navigation frame instead", the generated code for cross-frame menu will be less than previous version.
• Configuration of Cross-Frame Wizard now can be saved in *.pgt file.

Fixed bugs:

• Fixed the problem that in some case, the "[object]" text error occurred in IE browser after clicking a link that used window.open JavaScript.
• Fixed the problem that when clicking "Back" button of browser to return to the page, the menu changed under some special conditions.
• Fixed the bug that the horizontal menu items are not in same height in some browser.
• Fixed the bug that when the item image's width and height are set to 0, this menu item can not be viewed in Netscape 6+.

Sothink DHTML Menu 3.1

New Features & Fixed Bugs:

• Support More Browser Version -- Netscape 4.07 or above, Mozilla 5.0
  In version 3.1, the menu generated can be shown in Netscape 4.07 or above version and Mozilla 5.0.
• Provide a Converting Wizard to update your previous menu page
  DHTML Menu v3.1 provides an HTML Converting Wizard, which is used to convert the HTML file that contains DHTML Menu created in version 3.0.
• New position method -- Float
  A new method of menu position -- Float has been added. By choosing this method, no matter users drag the scrolling bar, the menu still can be viewed.
• Support Background image
  In this version, you can browse and choose an image as your whole menu's background.
• Support to use same effect to hide menu
  Use the same effect with showing menu to hide the menu