Magic Button is a very friendly system for creating Web page Java-based buttons, even if you have no programming knowledge. It's easy to use its tabs to pick colors, text, background images, sounds, and more for the button's up, mouse-over, and clicked behavior, and designate a URL and frame for it.

A .wav to .au sound conversion utility is included. Buttons are sizable and can include a tiled background image or even be transparent .gif files for irregular button sizes. The system can create the code and interactively preview the button(s) in your browser, then you can paste the finalized code into your project.

Magic Button is flexible and easy to use and can produce highly professional results.

Magic Button Main Features:

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You can specify the size and position of each button. Buttons may overlap each other.

The button applet background can be colored, or a bitmap. Bitmap backgrounds can be scaled to fit the applet, centered or tiled.

Each button can be assigned a URL to link to when clicked, and a target frame.

Buttons can behave like Push Buttons or Radio Buttons.

All buttons have three states -- Up, Down and Mouse-Over. You can assign different colors, bitmaps, sounds and text labels to each of these states.

Buttons can be scrolled in any direction, [Options] -> [Special].

You can test the button project at any time by pressing [Build Applet] -> [Test in Browser] button. You can setup as many browsers as you want by setting them in menu "Settings" -> "Browser Setup..."

Buttons can be duplicated, deleted or re-ordered. To re-order button click it with the right mouse button and select "Bring To Front" or "Send Back"

Text styles include: Bold and Italic text. Text can be aligned to the center or you can specify a text offset manually.

Bitmaps can be in GIF or JPEG formats, and can be aligned to the left corner or center of the button. The bitmap can also be scaled to fit the button.

Transparent GIF bitmaps can be used to create non-rectangular buttons.

Animated GIFs can be used to create animated buttons. Note: Animated GIFs in Java applets are not supported by old & tired browsers.

Sounds can be in AU. There is a utility to help you convert your WAV files to AU, just click "Tools" -> "Wav2Au Converter". And convert them to AU -- the only audio format supported by Java Applets. You can assign different sounds for up, down and mouse-over states.

Buttons may be transparent or flat.

A button can have no border.

Actions can be assigned to various events -- on entering a button, on leaving a button, and on a button press. Actions include showing and hiding a button, setting the label or color of a button, and calling a JavaScript function. You can assign multiple actions to a single event. Button applets may be controlled by JavaScript code. Applet methods are provided to hide/show a button, change the state of a button, and move/resize a button. Button applets may also call JavaScript functions via link: javascript:functionName(a, b); or via action: Call JavaScript.

When building the button applet Magic Button automatically generates the required Java and HTML code, and collects all the required images and sounds into an output folder. You can then upload your applet.