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- STBAR 2.1 INFORMATION
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- Overview
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- STBAR.VBX is a runtime AND demo version of a status bar custom control for
- Visual Basic. I think, the concept of combining demo and runtime versions is
- new, so I will try to explain:
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- STBAR.VBX serves a
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- - as a runtime version, i. e. it runs any application developed with the
- FULL version (for availabilty of full version and other controls feel free
- to contact me via CompuServe mail).
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- - as a (fully functional) demo version in design mode. The restriction here is,
- that applications (EXE files) developed with the demo version will not
- display a status bar at runtime (ONLY WITH THE FULL VERSION, WHICH SHOULD NOT
- BE GIVEN AWAY). To 'convert' an application from 'demo' to 'full' mode, simply
- load it with the full version and rebuild the EXE file.
-
- I would like to hear any comments on this concept.
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- Description
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- see the file STBAR.WRI for an explanation of the properties and events.
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- This is version 2.1 of STBAR.VBX. Here is some information for those of you,
- who had download verion 1.x:
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- Version 1.x fired the MenuSelect event with the Tag property as one paramter.
- I liked this feature very much, but I had to use a lot of undocumented features
- (special messages, menu id's, message order, ...) to implement this. Also there
- were some problems with Win 3.0 and VB2 crashed with the control. So I decided
- to change the paramter to be the menu's caption. There is one brand new event
- (Selected Tag), which offers the old functionality for VB2. It also uses
- undocumented features, but it is so useful, that I've added it (see the
- MHCTL file in the MS BASIC forum for more information). The code check for
- VB version, so it will run only for VB2 and you may decide, if you want to
- use it.
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- Together with some sample code (VB2), I've also added STBAR.INI. This can be
- used to 'internationalize' the indicator captions (the example is for Germany).
- This file has to be placed in the windows directory.
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- Fore more information and any comment, please send me a message via CompuServe
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- Bernd Beekes
- User ID: 100031,2063
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- Full version: $ 50,-- w/o source
- $ 85,-- with source
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- Acknowledgement:
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- This control was completely written by me, but is based on a control written by
- Ed Staffin, who had the idea of composing the status bar out of multiple control
- instances. You can find an earlier version of him in the MS BASIC forum.
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