TXT LIST FILE : example of the list - .txt file



LISTMANAGER

MACINTOSH : Version 1.3b now also includes a Mac version. The Macintosh version requires Mac OS X version 10.1 or higher
It has been developed by:

Thomas Harrington
tph@acm.org
http://www.pcisys.net/~tph/


WINDOWS: Example of the listmanager.exe, included in the GLS1.3b

Features of the GENERATED LIST SCROLLER

• Name-link-color-jump-icon-bgcolor (and expandable)
As You can see on the left, the menu uses an external textfile to read the name of the menu-items, the link of the menu items and the colour of the menu-items. These 3 are required, optional are jump for 'shortcut buttons', icon for icon defining for menu items and bgcolor for defining backgroundcolors for the loaded swf's

• Show/Hide scroll-Up/Down buttons on reaching start/end
It has a build-in Action script which will check if the top or bottom of the scrollmenu has been reached an will hide the scrollup or scrolldown button if it has. (of course this script can be deactivated if wanted)

• Drag Scrollbar
Besides the scrollbuttons it has a drag-scrollbar for quicker scrolling.

• "Direct-Click-to-position" or "Scroll-once-the-length-of-the-list (since version 1.2)"
Quit stunning is the direct-scroll feature. Click anywhere on the drag-scroll area (except the drag-scrollbar itself) and the dragposition will reset itself accordingly.

• Showing current menuitem name
The current selected menu-item on the left-top will always show the latest selected menu-item.

• Next/Previous buttons correct the menu/list
The next / previous buttons will not only re-adjust the current selected menu-item, it also re-adjusts the scroll position of the menu !!

• Use for "normal" Movie Clip instead of Generated List
Great thing about it is that it's easy to change it to using a normal movieclip as the scrolled target instead of a by action-script generated menu-list

• Flash 4 file

New features of version 1.2

• Multi color option for menu-items
Version 1.2 allows up to 999 different colors for the menu-items (however, adjusting to over 999 is possible and easy)

• Keyboard Arrow keys funcionality
Besides the up/down buttons, you can scroll using the keyboard <arrow up> and <arrow down> buttons. <arrow left> and <arrow left> can be set to show the next/previous item in a few seconds.

• Support for "load movie"-GLS
GLS can be used as plug&play module to load into another Flash movie (Load Movie in MC)

• Extra Insert/Delete-line application
GLS comes with a small application to insert/delete lines/items in txt-file. Can save hours of work when using e.g. alphabetical lists.

• Error support for .txt file
Actions scripts adjusted to allow "mistakes" (e.g. type-errors) in the list.txt file.

New features of version 1.3

• Standard internal "preloading" movie-clip
Version 1.3 comes with a standard "loading" movieclip which runs while the external .swf is being loaded

• Highlighted current menu item
Using either normal menuitem selection, next/previous or the jump-buttons, the current menuitem will always be highlighted.

• Jump-to / Shortcut buttons
Jump-to / Shortcut buttons to jump to any position in list with extra buttons, it also loads the correct external .swf file.

• backgroundcolor for loaded examples
If your external .swf is transparent or you want to include standard background colors/images for your external swfs (and not put them in every single .swf file) you can add and activate them in the GLS

• HTML-version
Load html-pages instead of .swf files!!!

• Icon support
2 ways of adding icons to the menu-items; - read from list or - according to menuitem number. If it's read from list, the menuitem-icon will go to / stop at a keyframe according to the txt-list number. If it's not from list, every menuitem's icon will go to / stop at the keyframe according to the numeric value of the menuitem (menuitem 1 will show icon in frame 1, menuitem 2 will show icon in frame 2 and so on)

• advanced listmanager.exe
Now you can add both rows and columns to the list ( This listmanager.exe is a PC application only. )

New features of version 1.3b

• Macintosh listmanager
Version 1.3b comes with a listmanger for Mac. Required : Mac OS X version 10.1 or higher

• Multiple targeting in HTML version
Version 1.3b allows you to open the links read from .txt files into any frame of your frameset. the html list .txt file now includes a column for frame name per link

New features of version 1.4

• JavaScript add-on : html frames links update GLS menu
[html-version] Extra Javascript script; Clicable links to other pages within opened/non-menu frame pages can contain JS to automaticaly update the GLS menu-list.

- Browsable HELP file
Browsable help file included instead of old howto.txt. Some help topics were updated and/or corrected to correct referring to GLS .fla file/ Library

New features of version 2.0

• Search option
Extra field to filter list by search-query (automatic list rebuild). Options for 'Start with' or ' search complete menu item text' and Upper/Lowercase match to 'none' / 'first letter' / 'all letters'

- Fold-out option - Treemenu (Pull-out main categories / pulldown sub menuitems)
Option to set 'Active Categories' working like pullout menu. Clicking on a category menu-item will fold-out sub-menu-items of this category and fold-in other categories.

For questions and wishes for new releases email me at gls@patrickjansen.net