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CustomMenu is a plug-in. It works as an unique bookmark extension that can manage and display a batch of URLs as dropdown menu on the browser's menu bar (called BatchBookmark hereafter). It's very useful for a personal user or a web developer for the Internet or Intranet.
*CustomMenu version 1.50 only work for Netscape browsers.
System requirement
MS Window95/NT
Netscape 3.0 and above
The version that works on MS I.E. will be available soon .
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Software Installation
If you forget to Bookmark the BatchBookmark on step 6, then you can access the BatchBookmark from your browser through the steps listed below.
There is a BatchBookmark template file "template.htm" in this software. You are able to create your own BatchBookmark very easily according to this template."Template.htm" can be find in the directory set on installation with default directory "C:\CustomMenu". It can be edited in MS Word 97 View/HTML Source or other editors for HTML. There are a few key words with very simple syntax to create BatchBookmark. They are listed as below:
TITLE="xxxxxx"
TITLE="END"
Set a text string as a title of dropdown menu on browser's menu bar, for example TITLE="Money", Money will be shown on the menu bar. The dropdown menu will end by setting TITLE="END". You are able to create more than one title in your BatchBookmark.
SUBMENU="xxxxxx"
SUBMENU="END"
Set a text string as a submenu in a dropdown menu, for example SUBMENU="Bank". A SUBMENU will end by setting SUBMENU="END". SUBMENU can be cascaded more than once. SUBMENU must be set between a pair of TITLE="xxxxxx" and TITLE="END".
MENUITEM="xxxxx;yyyyy"
Set a hyper link for web site. The first section is the name of a web site and the second section is the web site's hyper link address. For example: MENUITEM="Yahoo;http://www.yahoo.com". MENUITEM can be used more than once and it must be set between a pair of SUBMENU="xxxxx" and SUBMENU="END" or TITLE="xxxxxx" and TITLE="END". There is a semi-colon between the site name and site hyper link address.
SEPARATOR
Set a separate horizontal line on the dropdown menu. It can be
used more than once and must be used between a pair of
SUBMENU="xxxxx" and SUBMENU="END" or
TITLE="xxxxxx" and TITLE="END"
BREAK
Set a break on your dropdown menu for another column. It can be
used more than once and must be used between a pair of
SUBMENU="xxxxx" and SUBMENU="END" or
TITLE="xxxxxx" and TITLE="END"
Example:
TITLE="Business/Money"
SUBMENU="Banking"
MENUITEM="AAAdir Directory of World
Banks;http://www.aaadir.com"
MENUITEM="Banks on the
Internet;http://www.qualisteam.com/eng/conf.html"
MENUITEM="Bank of America;http://www.bofa.com"
MENUITEM="Bankers Trust;http://www.bankerstrust.com"
MENUITEM="Central Banking Resource
Center;http://www.patriot.net/users/bernkopf"
SEPARATOR
MENUITEM="Chase Manhattan;http://www.chase.com"
MENUITEM="Citibank;http://www.citibank.com"
MENUITEM="Fleet Bank;http://www.fleet.com"
MENUITEM="Financial Pipelin;http://www.finpipe.com/"
MENUITEM="PAWWS Financial
Network;http://www.pawws.com/"
SUBMENU="END"
TITLE="END"
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