Enclosed are two sample applications that demonstrate the use of the ToolBar manager. The ToolBar manager is a complete set of routines that allow you to create such toolbars and the routines take care of all user interactions and toolbar maintenance and return the users commands for you to handle.
Application 1: ToolBars(small)
This application demonstrates one likely use of the manger. When launched, it creates a windoid containing two toolbars; one with 20 cells and the other with 8. These toolbars are made up of 22 x 22 cells which hold 16 x 16 icons.
The first toolbar (left w/ 20 cells) has four occupied cells. Clicking in the cells takes care of all highlighting and clicking and dragging in the scroll region takes care of all scrolling etc. When the third and fourth cells are clicked, the items disappear. This is not a bug. It demonstrates the fact that any cell item may be modified at any time.
The second toolbar (right w/ 8 cells) has four occupied cells too. Moving the mouse over any of the occupied cells dims them. There is an internal routine that handles the dimming. Dimmed cells can indicate features that are disabled. Instead of dimming, you could also have balloon help pop up or anything else you wish.
Application 2: ToolBars(big)
This application is similar to the above except for the fact that the second toolbar holds 32 x 32 icons.
Features:
• The ToolBar manager is extremely configurable and easy to work with. The cells may be of any size you wish and the scroll tab etc. is all created by you (as PICTs). Feel free to poke around the demo applications with ResEdit.
• The ToolBar (as opposed to traditional tools palettes) takes up far less space. This creates a larger work area and a less cramped work area results in greater overall efficiency.
• The manager gives you access to unlimited number of cells (well, of course the more cells you have the more RAM you need) without having to increase the size of the windoid holding the toolbar.
• The cells are not only able to hold icons (ICN#'s) but also PICTs or any other images you wish. There are routines that allow you to put virtually any image onto the toolbar.
• When using icons (ICN#'s), the toolbar manager takes advantage of various transformations (e.g. disabled, off-line, open, selected and all other transformations that can be handled by PlotIconID)
• The toolbars add a degree of elegance to the interface of any application that traditionally utilized tool palettes.
The ToolBar manager is not free. read the file 'License Agreement' for more information.
