eMenuTree: Frameset project eMenuTree: Frameset projectAn easy way to select your settings and options is to run the program. eMenuTree will give you step by step instructions. But if you want to select options and setting yourself, do the following:
(1) Save your project using the file menu.
(2) Save your style sheet using the style sheet menu.
(3) Go to "Options". Un-select the "Use drop-down menus" check option. A frameset project should use regular tree menus, not drop-down tree menus.
(3) Go to "Images". Either select images or check the appropriate "don't use image" check options.
(4) Go to "Frameset". Check the "Tree menu is in a frameset" check box, and choose a file to load in the content frame.
Use normal folders and normal page links. Don't add any columns and don't insert the tree menu into any files.
Use the "Run / tools" menu to write "emenu.js" and "ehomepage.htm". eMenuTree will ask you to save your project and CSS files, and write emenu.js and ehomepage.htm to your project file folder.
1. emenu.js -- a javascript file that contains your tree menu and the javascript functions.
2. ehomepage.htm -- an HTML file that contains a link to emenu.js.
The first time you write a menu, eMenuTree will also ask about images and whether you want the project to be in a frame. Choose "No" for all these options.
Using the frameset tab, select " ehomepage.htm" as your tree menu frame file, and any other file as your content frame file. Then write eframeset.htm (your frameset).
After you have written you menu and frameset, preview "eframeset.htm" in a browser.
A variety of frameset options are available on the frameset tab. You may choose to put the tree menu frame on the left or the right, add a third frame on any side, you may choose not to use scroll bars or borders, etc.
Experiment with the format the tree menu options. Make changes, run the project, and then view it in a browser.
Go to the style sheet tab, and make changes in your style sheet. The cascading style sheet controls the font used in the tree menu folder lines and link lines. You change the font of a main folder, subfolder, or page link by making changes in the .mainfolderline, .subfolderline, and .linkline selectors. (You can either type in changes, or 3-click in a change - i.e click in the function you want to change, click the attribute you want to add, click the value you want for that attribute.) The left indent options will override the margin settings of your CSS file sheet.
In windows explorer, change the name of your frameset from eframeset.htm to default.htm or to any other name you like. If you want eMenuTree to preview your frameset, on the options tab enter the name of the frameset as the URL to preview.
By default, eMenuTree names the page with the tree menu file "ehomepage.htm" and inserts this in the tree menu frame. Using the "File / URL to insert into the tree menu frame " option, you may change this to some other file. You should insert the menu into this file using the "Edit above file" button. When you re-run "Write frameset" eMenuTree will put this file into the menu frame.
You may change some of you links to javascript links. You can change your frameset file, adding as many frames and framesets as you like, arranging them as you like. The only rule: files will be loaded into the frame with the name "emtcf" (emt content frame). For other possibilities see Technical help>how to.