Global Menu Pro — Overview

The Global Menu Pro is a Flash menu component that represents a menu structure in a pop-up fashion with sliding submenus. It allows you to implement a hierarchical menu into your website navigation system. The common characteristic of this menu is that space-saving submenus slide out on demand, revealing many layers of depth in the menu.

The Global Menu Pro is designed to handle both large professional and small sites. It can therefore easily accommodate menus running into 100's, 10's or 1's of menu items.

The component provides with great usability supporting most complete feature set:

• multilevel structure (up to 5 levels) and unlimited menu items;
• menu data is loaded using XML;
• component can be completely configured through the XML file;
• (optionally) separate style declaration for each of top-level menu items;
• (optionally) setting specific values of width for any submenu block;
• all parameters (excepting those corresponding to particular items) can be easily set through the Component inspector;
• alpha transparency support for all backgrounds;
• gradient support for background color;
• adding URLs or custom Flash functions to any menu click event (through the XML file).

The structure of Global Menu Pro includes following levels:

1. Menu bar — a horizontal menu bar.
2. Top level (static) — consists of items that are always visible. Move your mouse over a top-level item, and nested second-level submenu (if one exists) pops up. Only one top-level item can be open at a time.
3. Pop-up levels (dynamic, optional) — are only visible when a corresponding top-level item is open. Up to 4 nested levels are supported (Level 2 - Level 5). Clicking on an item with "+" or "-" icon respectively reveals or hides nested submenu by sliding the submenu block to the right or to the left.

Global Menu Pro with a 5-level structure (view the Flash example).