About JStartButton
 

DemoStartApplet What's JStartButton?

 

JStartButton is a Java-applet you can use to easy navigate through a complex tree of your web-site and relief a sending e-mail from the web-site. It acts aproximately like Start button in Windows.

 

Because JStartButton is very small ( usually 40 X 20 pixels ) you will have more place on a web-page for an information but not for a complex system of hyperlinks. Also you can insert this magic button into any places on any pages every time when you need to support user with an all-embracing, easy and quick access to any page or bookmark on your site or an instant contact by e-mail address you included in JStartButton-menu.

 

It weighs less then 8 KB, therefore download time over 28,800 bps is less 2 seconds.

 

The applet runs in any web-browser, which supports Java, under any 32-bit OS. For exaple in Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator under Windows 98.

 

JStartButton's menu always is "native" popup menu. So it very quick and supports all languages supported by platform where the applet runs.

 

 

DemoStartApplet How I can use it in my web-site?

 

Because JStartButton is Java-applet it have to be included into an HTML-file on your site:

<applet code="JStartButton.class" width="37" height="20" archive="JStartButton.jar">
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</applet>

Also you have to use a tag construction

<param name="some param" value="some value">

between applet tags to specify the following:

Menu items with corresponding labels and URL's (relative or absolute)
New submenus or separating lines
An HTML frame  or window where the document is to be displayed (self, parent, top, blank or name parameter)
Which menu item will be performed when a user double-clicked or right-clicked directly on a JStartButton (by '+' sign) 
A font style of the button and menu items
Text/OnMouseText propertys and background (in HSB style) of the button 
A place where the popup menu is to be appeared (right or bottom of your JStartButton).

Click here to view parameters of DemoStartApplet . It's a JStartButton of this site.

 

Developer and author:  Michael Knyazev MCSE, MCP+I, Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform