Once registered, you can disable the NAG screen of menus created with unregistered version or change to any of your favorite images in project options dialog.
You should set a password for your project so that others can not modify or copy it.
You can select controls and press arrow keys to move them pixel by pixel.
You can select controls and press SHIFT and arrow keys to resize them pixel by pixel.
You can check 'Create Compressed Data Files' option to reduce file size, but if there are lots of compressed data in your menu, such as MP3/Ogg background music and JPG/PNG images, you'd better not check this option, or it will take much more time to launch the menu.
You can check 'Create Stand-alone Executable Files' option so that you can distribute executables without .apm files.
You can compress executables with an exe-packer support overlay data such as UPX to reduce file size.
You can create an about box with 'Show Picture' action.
You can use animated GIF images as splash screen and end screen.
Select more than one controls of the same type, you can change their properties together.
You can group controls so that they are selected and moved together.
You can lock controls so that they can not be moved or resized.
'Common Mouse Enter Sound' and 'Common Mouse Click Sound' of action controls are stored only one copy, it is recommended to use these two properties if all action controls are set with same mouse sounds.
With Virtual Drive Manager, you can create virtual drives to map contents of folders.
The %CDROM% macro is not the cd root actually, it is the location of .apm files (or executables for stand-alone menus), so it is the cd root by default.
The 'Exit && Eject CD' action causes Windows to complain that there is no disc in the drive sometimes, so it is not recommended to use this action.
While 'Use System Message Box' in project options is checked, 'Popup Message' action use default message box to popup messages.
You can drag a file from the gallery and assign it to the control under the cursor, or create a new control while dropping it over the main window.
You can double click a file in the gallery and assign it to selected controls.
You can restore menu data files (.apm) from stand-alone executables with Stand-alone 2 Data File Convertor.
You can press F1 to get help information of selected controls and active dialogs.
Press SHIFT while selecting an icon in control palette, it doesn't released after creating a new control, so that you can create many controls of the same type.
You can create a control by double clicking an icon in control palette.
In the F.A.Q section of help manual, you can find many frequently asked questions.
Module files (*.xm; *.it; *.mod; *.s3m) are small but sound good, they are suitable for background music.
You can always get information about the latest version by choosing 'Check for Update' menu item.
You can use compressed images such as JPEG and PNG files instead of bitmaps for smaller file size.
Shape control can be used to display images, and it uses much less resource than Image control.
Enter '\n' (without quotes) in caption property of Hot Label, Button && Cool Button controls to create multi-line caption.
Enter '&&' (without quotes) before a character in caption property of Hot Label, Button && Cool Button controls to identify a shortcut key with underline effect.
You can hide border and scroll bars of Web Browser controls with the following css style in HTML files.<br><br><body style="border:none; overflow-x:hidden; overflow-y:hidden">
You can use ISO Image Creator to create standard iso9660 disc images.
Use the following command line to launch another menu with 'Run Program' action.<br><br>autorun.exe [menufile.apm] [-p pagename]