The Tutorial - Using a Toolbar
Implementing the menus into your menu bar

This is the final step in the process of creating a menus project.

This process is accomplished by using the Install Menus option under Tools.
You will be presented with the Install Menus dialog, as displayed on the image at the left.

The Install Menus dialog is divided into two sections; the lefts section shows the folders and files on your web site and the right section shows the files that have been queued to receive the menus.

To include a file (or a folder) in the right pane simply drag it from the left pane and drop it over the right pane. You may also right click a file (or a folder) and select the Install Menus option.

When you have all the files on the right pane (since in this tutorial we're working with just one file we'll have just the hotspots.htm listed) click the Install button. This will process all the files in the right pane and install the menus in all of them.

You could also use the Auto button to add files to the right pane. The Auto button will perform a series of tests to determine which files require the Loader Code. The Loader Code is a piece of JavaScript code that instructs the browse to load the menus. Without this code the menus will not be displayed. Sometimes, on more complex projects, determining which files require this code can be a bit more complex and the Auto button is an excellent aid to let DHTML Menu Builder do this for us.

Now that our hotspots.htm file contains the Loader Code click on the Close button to close the Install Menus dialog.

The only thing left is to generate the JavaScript code for your menus.
To do so, simply click on Tools->Compile.

Launch your file (hotspots.htm)  with your preferred browser and test the menus.


This concludes the basic "Using a Toolbar" tutorial. Yet, there're many more things you can do with DHTML Menu Builder.
We now recommend you that you take the "Positioning the menus" tutorial to learn how to control the way your menus are positioned and aligned on your pages.