ActiveBar

Looking for Office 97 Look and Feel!

Instant, state-of-the-art, ActiveXÖ toolbars and menus for your applications. With ActiveBar any application or web site you create can sport cool toolbars and menus in mere minutes. If you liked the flexibility Office97 and Internet Explorer offers, wait until you test drive ActiveBar.

ActiveBar is an ActiveX control that provides dockable toolbars and menus with full runtime customization. Advanced UI features will boost your applications look and feel, make them easier to use and give your end users the power to reconfigure toolbars and menus.

All this and more come in a lightweight ActiveX package that offers easy distribution and high performance. ActiveBar lets you effortlessly add a state-of-the-art user interface to your existing and future projects. Create menu and toolbar layouts in seconds using ActiveBar Designer. The integrated tool library provides a repository of commonly used tools and bands for reuse. Adding a new tool is a snap, just drag&drop tools from the library or to create a new one just fill in the property sheet and use the icon editor. Visual Menu Builder lets you create application menus and popup menus on the fly.

Features :

• Homogenous menu and toolbar architecture
• Multiple layout styles (Docking, Floating, Popup)
• Flexible runtime behavior (enable/disable docking, floating, moving and resizing)
• Detachable menus & toolbars
• Tabbed toolbars for organizing large number of commands in categories
• Sliding tabs
• Over 100 properties, methods, and events
• Automatic rendering of icon states: Clicked, Enabled, Disabled
• Multistate buttons, Group buttons, & Separators
• Horizontal, vertical and floating menus
• Alignment and position control over text and icon elements
• Built-in support for Combobox, Edit, and DropDown controls
• Custom icon sizes and text styles
• ToolTips, keyboard shortcuts & grab handles
• Intelligent resizing & wrapping
• Truly lightweight ActiveX control (less than 300k)
• Requires no external DLL's for easier deployment and eliminates potential DLL conflicts
• Visual menu builder allows you to quickly design or modify tools and bands, using a drag & drop interface
• Integrated tool library serves as a repository for your commonly used tools and bands, for example, the predefined standard File, Edit, Window, Help tools
• Advanced icon editor includes an icon image capture tool and state of the art drawing tools
• ActiveBar seamlessly attaches to both your MDI and standard forms to fully integrate toolbars & menus with your applications
• Allows context switching of menus and toolbars depending on the your applications program flow. You can easily save and restore toolbar layout information as you move between different application states
• Users can easily customize and reconfigure their toolbars and menus to create a more productive layout to suite their specific needs
• ActiveBar has an open architecture with extensible COM interfaces, which will carry your applications well into the future