Layer Genie
Create fantastic cascading menus with amazing special effects! This set of behaviors will make it all possible. Your layers and menus will come ALIVE with superb animations and special effects.
Now you can concentrate on the layout design of your pages and create fantastic designs without worrying about different browsers and difficult programming.
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| Author: | Marja Ribbers-de Vroed (FlevOOware.nl), George Petrov (DMXzone.com) |
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| Version: | 1.0.72 |
What can you do with Layer Genie
- build (multi-level) dropdown/flyout menus - see demo >>
- build slideshows with advanced transition effects from one slide to the next
- display visual elements on your page with animated display and/or hide effect
Major features of Layer Genie
Create (animated) dropdown menus with submenus
Create layer-based menus with cascading menus - see demo >>
- Specify if a menu layer has a parent or child relationship.
- Make groups of menu layers and when showing one layer, the other layers in that group will automatically be hidden.
- Automatically hide a menu layer when the user moves the mouse off the layer.
Dynamic Positioning
Are you using a liquid layout? The (menu) layers can be anchored to the document, window/frame or another object, eg. a layer, an image or a named A tag and will always follow this object, no matter what size the browser is.
This means that when the object moves, the layer will stick to the object and move with it.
Animated Display Effects
To display layers you can choose between:
- Static: The layer will be made visible at the position you specified
- Sliding: The layer will 'slide' into position from a predefined starting position. The speed of sliding is adjustable to your needs.
- Unfolding: The layer will 'unfold' itself at the target position. Unfolding can be either horizontal (from left to right, or right to left), vertical (from top to bottom, or bottom to top) or diagonal in several directions.
- Transition effects: The layer can be displayed using an transition effect like random display or checkerboard. IE4+ on PC only. NS6+ supports the 'Fade in' transition. All other browsers will just use the static option to show the layer.
Animated Hide Effects
To hide layers you can choose between:
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Static hide: The visibility of the layer is just set to 'hidden'
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Reversed Display Type: The layer will use the opposite effect of the display. For example: Did you use the horizontal left to right sliding for display, the layer will now slide from right to left.
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Folding: The layer 'folds' itself at the target position. The folding can be either horizontal, vertical or diagonal in several directions.
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Transition effects: The layer is hidden using a transition effect like fade out or circle in. IE4+ on PC only. NS6+ supports the 'Fade out' transition. All other browsers will just use the static hide option.
Create a slideshow with the timeline feature
Use the built in timeline feature of Dreamweaver to create a layer-based slideshow. Use the animated display and hide effects like folding or sliding that come with the Layer Genie extension for transition effects between the slides.
Exceptional Compatibility
Layer Genie is tested to be compatible with all major browsers:
- PC: IE5+, NS4.x, NS6.2+, Opera6+, and Mozilla1+.
- Macintosh: IE5+, NS4.7, NS7.0, Opera6, and Safari
The special display effects are supported by most browsers. If an effect is not supported in a specific browser, it will not result in errors. The static show/hide will then automatically be used.
Full Macintosh Support
As you can see we now offer a superb AQUA interface for OSX! Also the extension is tested and works well on all Mac browsers (see above)
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| Online Demo: | Check those out... |
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| Type: | Behavior |
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| Product: | UltraDev 4, Dreamweaver 4, Dreamweaver 4.01, Dreamweaver 7, Dreamweaver MX, Dreamweaver MX 2004, Dreamweaver 8 |
| Platform: | Win XP/2000/2003/2008/7, Mac OS 8.6 or higher |
| Browser: | All |
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Marja Ribbers-de Vroed
Well, what's there to tell?
I worked as a software engineer for a well-known Dutch software company for about 10 years. But then I decided I did not want to work there anymore. 
Since then, I've been working with my husband in our own company.
I "discovered" web development early 2000, and I soon found out that I could actually create my own extra (DHTML) features in Dreamweaver by building custom extensions.
My first extension was Cross-browser AutoScroller, but I've developed several other ones since then.
User Reviews
Total of 11 reviewsRE: Layer and Scroller Genie Review
Written by Marja Ribbers-de Vroed on April 15, 2005Thank you, JJ.
Layer and Scroller Genie Review
Written by haaz dude on April 15, 2005The Scroller Genie and Layer Genie are two of the most useful extentions I have ever bought. They save me a ton of time on the job. I've used them on my site, and the clients that visit request the same actoins on their site.The Layer Genie can also ...
RE: brilliant for creating navigation menus
Written by Marja Ribbers-de Vroed on May 21, 2004Thank you Kenny
brilliant for creating navigation menus
Written by Kenny Darcy on May 21, 2004Hi Marja,I am an a dreamweaver extension sucker, i.e I have nearly all the commercial ones available both here in DMXzone and all other dreamweaver site's, any way for navigation the Layer Geni not only does what every other commercial extension ...
RE: RE: Dynamic Data and Layer Genie
Written by Kenny Darcy on March 26, 2004Huumm OK I eat my words, I am humbled, ahhhhhhhh what more can I say, I have got it to work with Dynamic data with great help from MarjaR, I am very happy to say the Layer Genie does work wonderfully with dynamic data and has now give me the ...
RE: Dynamic Data and Layer Genie
Written by Marja Ribbers-de Vroed on March 10, 2004Layer Genie does not create layers... it manipulates existing layers. But then again, it should not be too difficult to create the required layers in some server side repeat region as well, together with the image thumbnails from the database. Layer ...
Dynamic Data and Layer Genie
Written by Kenny Darcy on March 9, 2004Hi all,I found layer genie was not much use when it came to needing to use it with dynamic data, In respect I had a thumbnail and a larger image, the images are been called from a database. Using Layer Genie you need to have a layer for each record ...
Awesome
Written by gordon mackay on February 10, 2003I am a total Dreamweaver novice, but thanks to extensions like this one, which has the user of all abilities considered in the design, helps me to create professional results. Layer Genie adds a wide range of effects to any page and does it without ...
