Frequently Asked Questions

- How can I change the first button?

- It's a limitation of a free version, get a full version - buy the menu.

- How to remove the search field/button?
- Use the parameter "_showSearchField(Yes/No)" in the tag inspector.

- How can I change button names and links?
- Edit the DIV id="menu" and test in browser, press F12(Cmd+F12 on Mac OSX). Start with these simple steps

- How to use the search feature?
- You can use any search script with GET parameters, any public search engine for example,
Google:
"http://www.google.com/search?q=" - google search in Web
"http://www.google.com/search?sitesearch=yourDomainName%26q=" - search on your web site
or Yahoo:
"http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=" - Yahoo search in Web.
There is only one rule for any search engine: put the search query parameter to the end of the link ("http://www.someSearchScript?query=") the search request will be added to the end of the link, for example: searching of "flash menu" ("http://www.someSearchScript?query=flash menu")
Example of the button code:
 <div><a href='http://www.someSearchScript?query='>SEARCH</a></div>

- Drop down menu seem to be dropping underneath another flash movie. How to fix it?
- Add wmode parameter to the ANOTHER flash movie - wmode=transparent:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase=" http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="700" height="48" align="middle" >
  <param name=movie value="some.swf" />
  <param name=quality value="high" />
  <param name=wmode value="transparent" />
  <embed src="some.swf" wmode ="transparent" width="700" height="48" align="middle" quality="high" pluginspage="http://macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed>

</object>

- How to use international and special characters in a menu?
- Use XML or encoding described here.

- How to select a pretty color for a menu?
- Open "System Color Picker" and modify only "Hue" value. Details.

- I'm not technical expert, what is XML and how to use it with a menu?
- It is very easy, read detailed instructions here.

- When I go to Insert ==> Media ==> Vista Drop Down Menu, the program looks for a flash file which I don't have, can you help?
- It's not "looks for a flash file", it's asking to save a new flash file. Just give it a name, for example: "menu.swf" .

- I have another flash content on my site. f-source menu works fine, but another flash movie shows "Click to activate" message. Do you have any solution for it?
- Yes, just put the following code in the head of your page:
<script src='http://f-source.com/scripts/F-Fix.js'></script>
add before your flash object <script> flashFix(' and after the object '); </script>
<script>flashFix('<object> ... </object>');</script>

//- don't apply to f-source menus!
//- All in one line, without line breaks!
Example of correct code: <script>flashFix('<object ... <param ... <param ... </object>');</script> Example of incorrect code: <script>flashFix('<object ... <param ... <param ... </object>');</script>
Of course, you can download the script right here http://f-source.com/scripts/F-Fix.js and keep it on your server.

- How to make a button with empty link, in such a way that it does not go to f-source.com?
- Set href="NA" or href="#" for the button.

- Is that possible to place a menu in one frame and open a content in another frame?
- Yes, you need to type in target field instead of "_parent" - the name of your content frame. Don't confuse the name of frame file (mainFrame.html) and its parameter "name" (<frame src="mainFrame.html" name="bottomFrame">)

- How to use button names with apostrophe - "Bill's Company"? The menu disappears :(
- Replace the symbol " ' " with " \' " ("Bill\'s Company").

- How to create Library item with the menu?
- Read about it here Multipage management

- What about SSL connection (https:)? How to get rid of the warning message "This page contains secure and non secure items. Do you want to display non secure items?"?
- Replace all "http://" with "https://" in the menu code on a page and in your copy of the script "ActiveContent...js".

- I'm getting a warning message when trying to link to a Web Site from my menu...
- This message appears only during local testing, when you publish the menu on server, everything will be ok. To get rid of this message you need to change Flash player settings for your PC using this Macromedia Flash Player Setting Manager . (Choose "Always allow" or Edit location.. => Add location...)

- Will this work in all browsers and if not what browsers will have trouble? Will people need to have the flash plugin (or other plugin) installed in their browsers to see properly?
- They need to have Flash Player installed in a browser, if they don't, installation starts automatically. But 99% users already have it installed. See Detailed Survey from Macromedia(Adobe)
Our flash menus require flash player version 6 or higher.

- I would like to know the process after purchase the menu.
- After security payment via Emetrix you will receive the email with temporary link for download full version of the product.