On Thu, August 24, 2006 01:29, Brad Rhine wrote: > > I've played around with DW Toolbar a little bit, and it seems pretty > cool, but I couldn't offer a worthwhile opinion. I can recommend > MaxiToolbar Pro without reservation, though. David's been very > supportive and the classes work great and look great cross-platform. > I'd say it's probably your best bet, at least to get started. No > source access, but for the money, you're saving yourself a lot of > time and energy that can be spent elsewhere. >
I used to use MaxiToolBar Pro, and it did the job very well, no complaint there, but it hasn't been improved in quite some time and could do with a few extra features to give it a boost. A feature I really needed was being able to add a ContainerControl into the toolbar, for this I turned to DWToolbar. Although DWToolbar only supports RectControls being placed in the toolbar, I was able to clone some of the code that did that part and switch it to allowing ContainerControls instead, problem solved. It's only because it's open source that I was able to do this. My solution isn't perfect, in fact it has a few problems (which is why I've not released it back), but with a few lockdowns it works for me. I have however been able to get a few other fixes back into the base source. For the record, I've also played with Ultra Toolbar, which worked well too, but again I needed to be able to add ContainerControls into the toolbar and that wasn't supported at the time I tried it. <rantoftheday> What I really want is a proper cross platform toolbar with all the customization features and look of the standard Mac OS X toolbar from Cocoa etc, and I want REALbasic to have it as standard. It's frankly pretty shocking that REALbasic doesn't have a cross platform toolbar as standard (even if it's a pro only feature). And yes, I'm fully aware that a Mac OS X like toolbar isn't "the right thing for Windows", but with many windows web browser etc having large buttoned toolbars it's not going to put many users off, and a toolbar can generally be defaulted (with #BuildTargets) to smaller icons and no text anyway. </rantoftheday> I'll go lie down now. -- Ian M. Jones ________________________________________ IMiJ Software http://www.imijsoft.com http://www.ianmjones.net (blog) _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
