The Toolbar Component version 1.0.1

Toolbar Component was inspired by the new toolbars in Microsoft Office 2001, especially those in MS Entourage. Creating the actual pictures for the rollovers is half the battle, so the Rollover Component, which is also included, provides some sample background images and button icons, and allows the dynamic creation of rollover buttons with text labels. By creating the buttons in this way, it makes it easier for developers to produce multi-lingual versions of their buttons, as the button text in the images can be decided at runtime and changed on the fly. Click here to find out more about the Rollover Component.

Many aspects of the toolbar and rollover components are configurable by the developer, so it is easy to create different appearances for different platforms or users. It would even be possible to create different 'themes'. Included with the component are two styles of toolbar, Office 2001 style rollovers for Mac users and Windows 2000 style rollovers for Windows users. However, it is possible to create your own button and toolbar backgrounds to suite your own application also.

The component automatically resizes the buttons in the toolbar depending on the width of the window it's displayed in, so that if there is not enough room to display the button with the accompanying text, a smaller, icon-only, version is displayed instead. You even have control over the priority with which buttons get resized, so that more important buttons get resized last. If the window is resized to the point that the buttons cannot be displayed, the component resizes the window to the minimum size for the toolbar so that every button is displayed.

Also included is a component containing a workshop dialog allowing you to experiment with creating new toolbars interactively, seeing your results immediately in the dialog, but also generating the necessary code to create your toolbar for you.

Download

Each of these downloads contains everything you need to get started with the Toolbar Component, including the components themselves, the demo database, the documentation and the source database. Simply select the download for your development platform and you'll have everything you need for deployment on all platforms.

Note: In order to use the Context Sensitive Help in the demo database, you need to install 4D Write into the Mac4DX/Win4DX.

Toolbar Complete for 6.7.x (Database, Components, Demo Database, Documentation)
	Toolbar_Mac_67.sit.bin	MacBinary	1.5 m
	Toolbar_Mac_67.sit.hqx	BinHex	2.1 m
	Toolbar_PC_67.zip	ZIP	1.6 m
Toolbar Complete for 6.8.x (Database, Components, Demo Database, Documentation)
	Toolbar_Mac_68.sit.bin	MacBinary	1.5 m
	Toolbar_Mac_68.sit.hqx	BinHex	2.1 m
	Toolbar_PC_68.zip	ZIP	1.6 m
Toolbar Components Only
	Toolbar_Components_Mac.sit.bin	MacBinary	248 k
	Toolbar_Components_Mac.sit.hqx	BinHex	336 k
	Toolbar_Components_PC.zip	ZIP	266 k
Documentation
	Manual.pdf	ZIP	476 k

Pricing

This component is open-source, freeware. You may use it in any of your applications without charge. However, if you make enhancements to the component, we would appreciate you sending your enhancements to us so that we can perhaps include them for others to get the benefit.

If you feel you would like to pay something for this component, why not get us something from our Amazon Wish List. Go to Amazon.co.uk and look up the Wish List for mark@mitchenall.com.

Screen-shots and Movies

Click here to see some of the screen-shots and QuickTime movies we've prepared demonstrating some of the key features of the components.

Toolbar Component Discussion List

If you are interested in joining the toolbar component discussion list, please send an email to toolbar-discuss-requests@mitchenall.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the body of the email.