apPopupGen Index - 6. Preview Menu

purpose:

Preview the generated menu. This is done by incorporating an HTML browser (Internet Explorer) into the program.
As far as I know all versions of Internet Explorer should work just fine (I even teste version 6.0 already and it's even better that any previous version!).

Note: When activating this tab, code generation will automatically generate code for the preview (PreviewTMP.HTM). You can set the default language (1 or 2) at the preferences & about tabsheet.

troubleshooting:

Window remains white;

Woops, I think you might want to check the menu dimensions.

A grey box appears instead of my menu

First of all: try to change tabsheets (for example go to "Preferences" and back to "Preview"), if this does not fix the problem, the take a look at these options :

1. The applet cannot be found
- check codebase settings
- make sure apPopupMenu.jar is in the application directory
- make sure apPopupMenu.jar is set as the archive to be used
- make sure the code option is set to apPopupMenu
- make sure security settings of Internet Explorer allow you to use Java

2. Additional files cannot be found
- imagefiles are cannot be found (ie. copy them to the application dir and eliminate paths)
- soundfiles are cannot be found (ie. copy them to the application dir and eliminate paths)

3. Useless button
One button has no link or not an submenu. Each item/button must either have a link or a submenu!

4. Missing link but defined target
The applet does not appreciate that you define a target (for example "_self") while you did not define a link.
This often happens when creating menu's that will contain submenu's or you simple forgot to enter the link.

Images\Sounds do not appear in my menu

- imagefiles are cannot be found (ie. copy them to the application dir and eliminate paths)
- soundfiles are cannot be found (ie. copy them to the application dir and eliminate paths)

File Not found error

The browser cannot locate the generated file (PreviewTMP.HTM in the application directory).
Make sure there is enough spave on your disk and that you can write to disk.

I get an "The page cannot be displayed" error

Several options here:

1. The applet cannot be found
- check codebase settings
- make sure apPopupMenu.jar is in the application directory
- make sure apPopupMenu.jar is set as the archive to be used
- make sure the code option is set to apPopupMenu
- make sure security settings of Internet Explorer allow you to use Java

2. Additional files cannot be found
- imagefiles are cannot be found (ie. copy them to the application dir and eliminate paths)
- soundfiles are cannot be found (ie. copy them to the application dir and eliminate paths)