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- DosBar V1.43 - A Toolbar for DOS-Windows
- Copyright 1993-95 by Andreas Furrer
- ===============================================================================
-
- DosBar adds a toolbar to any DOS window. The toolbar gives you easy access to
- the mark, copy, paste, and other functions that are normally available only
- from the system menu of a DOS window.
-
- DosBar requires Windows 3.1.
-
-
- Installation
- ============
- The installation of DosBar is very easy:
- 1) Copy DOSBAR.EXE and DOSBARH.DLL to any (but the same) directory.
- 2) Create a new item for DOSBAR.EXE in the STARTUP group.
- 3) Restart Windows.
-
- The next time you open a DOS application in a window or shrink a full-screen
- DOS application to a window by <ALT>+<RETURN>, you will see a toolbar at the
- top of the window. If you press any button on the toolbar you will see a short
- description of the command beside the toolbar.
-
-
- Configuration
- =============
- If you click on the DosBar icon, you will see two additional menu entries in
- the system menu:
- - Configuration
- - About
-
- If you choose Configuration you will get the configuration dialog of DosBar. In
- this dialog you can customize the toolbar and set some other options. You can
- also open the configuration dialog with the button 'Dosbar configuration' of
- the toolbar.
-
- For the customization of the commands of the toolbar you see 2 listboxes and 3
- buttons:
-
- The left listbox shows the commands that are NOT in the toolbox and the
- right listbox shows the commands currently assigned to the toolbar.
-
- With the 'Append' button you can add the selected command from the left
- listbox to the END of the list on the right.
-
- The 'Insert' button will insert the selected command from the left listbox
- ABOVE the selected command in the right listbox and the 'Delete' button will
- delete the selected entry of the right listbox.
-
- The special entry 'Space' will add space between the buttons. You can add as
- many 'Spaces' as you like.
-
- Below the listboxes you will see a sample toolbar. The toolbar is updated
- everytime you change the settings. If you click on a button of this toolbar,
- the corresponding command will be selected in the right listbox.
-
- The size of the toolbar can be set to very small, small, normal, big and very
- big. You can also have colored buttons.
-
- With the option 'Draw buttons in caption' you can configure DosBar to draw the
- buttons in the caption of the DOS window. With this option enabled the toolbar
- will occupy no additional space. The size of the buttons is adjusted to the
- size of the caption and can't be changed.
-
- With the checkbox 'Show short description of commands' you can choose if you
- want to see a short description of the commands or not. The description will be
- displayed beside the buttons. You can adjust the position of the description by
- adding 'Spaces' at the end of the toolbar. You can't see the descriptions if
- the buttons are drawn in the caption of the window.
-
- If you use the 'Close window button' to close the window and you have set the
- PIF file of your application to close the DOS application when exiting Windows,
- you are normally asked if you want to close the application. If you check the
- checkbox 'Command close window: close immediately' you will not see this dialog
- and the application is closed immediately after you have pushed the button.
- (For informations about PIF files please consult the Windows documentation.)
-
- The checkbox 'Show icon' lets you choose if you want to see the icon for DosBar
- or if the program should run invisibly. If it runs invisibly, it will become
- visible if you start DosBar a second time or if you switch to DosBar with a
- taskmanager, such as FTaskman - a very nice and FREE task-manager replacement -
- that lets you see hidden windows.
-
- If you are copying text from a DOS window, a CR/LF will be added at the end of
- the copied text. This can be very annoying if you are copying only a word or a
- part of a line. With the options 'Delete last CR/LF when copying' you can
- choose if and when DosBar should delete the last CR/LF:
-
- - never:
- The last CR/LF is never deleted
- - not when copying more than one line:
- The last CR/LF is not deleted if you are copying more than one line from
- the DOS window
- - always:
- The last CR/LF is always deleted.
-
-
- Closing DosBar
- ==============
- DosBar can be closed with the "Close" command of its system menu (if the DosBar
- icon is visible - if not, just start DosBar a second time) or by a task manager
- that lets you see hidden windows. But note: you can't close DosBar if you have
- a DOS application running. If you want to close DosBar you must first to close
- ALL DOS applications.
-
-
- DOSBAR Commands
- ===============
- - Mark, Copy, Paste, Scroll, Configuration, Change font,
- Close window, Minimize window, Maximize window, Switch to:
- These commands act like their equivalents in the system menu of the
- DOS window.
- (For informations about these commands please consult the documentation
- for Windows.)
- - Reduce font/enlarge font
- With this command you can reduce or enlarge the font of the DOS window.
- If you have already set the smallest or largest font, nothing will happen.
- - Full screen
- This command lets you switch the DOS window to the full-screen mode.
- - DosBar configuration
- With this command you can access the configuration dialog of DosBar.
-
-
- Language
- ========
- During startup DosBar tries to detect if Windows is configured for the German
- language. If it detects that it is, DosBar will use the German language and if
- not, DosBar uses English. If you want to ignore the default language you can
- add the following parameters to the DosBar call:
-
- DOSBAR.EXE /D : German language
- DOSBAR.EXE /E : English language
-
-
- Freeware-Note
- =============
- You can use and distribute DosBar freely, as long as the following files are
- not changed and you distribute all the files together:
-
- - DOSBAR.TXT
- - DOSBAR.EXE
- - DOSBARH.DLL
-
- I wrote DosBar for fun, not for profit. That's why DosBar is free and you don't
- have to pay a registration fee. I think it is a bad habit that more and more
- program authors want to have money for even the smallest program.
-
- For informations about my other FREE Windows tools see the file SOFTWARE.TXT
- (or the German version SOFTWARE.TXG).
-
- Long live Freeware!
-
- If you have problems, comments, suggestions or you detect a bug, please send
- E-Mail to
-
- s_furrer@ira.uka.de
-
- (c) 1993-95 by Andreas Furrer
-
-
- Version history
- ===============
- 1.43: - Fixed the bug that you couldn't use the minimize and maximize buttons
- if the Dosbar buttons were drawn in the caption of the DOS window.
- 1.42: - Fixed the bug that clicking in the background of the toolbar was not
- bringing the DOS window in front.
- - Fixed a bug that the description of the commands was not cleared if
- the mouse moved from a button to the background of the toolbar.
- - Corrected the documentation.
- 1.41: - Fixed a problem with the 'Delete CR/LF' radio boxes of the
- configuration dialog.
- - Corrected the documentation
- 1.40: - Now you can also have the toolbar in the caption of the DOS window.
- - Added new commands to enlarge or reduce the font of the DOS window.
- - Added an option to remove the last CR/LF if text is copied from the
- DOS window.
- 1.31: - You will now see a short description of the command for a button if
- you move the mouse over the button face (you don't need to press the
- button to see the description).
- - Pressing a disabled button will now cause a beep.
- 1.30: - Added a switch to close DOS windows more quickly.
- - Now you can have five different toolbar sizes and the buttons can
- be colored.
- 1.20: - Added new commands: "Switch to" and "DosBar Configuration".
- - You will now see a sample toolbar in the configuration dialog so you
- see the changes immediately.
- - Added German-language support.
- - Changed the button-drawing routine so a button will now not overpaint
- the frame of the window if the window is too small to display all the
- buttons.
- - Changed the internal representation of the toolbar bitmaps.
- - Fixed a bug that caused the "configuration" and "about" dialogs
- to not be children of the program.
- 1.10: - Added a configuration dialog for changing the toolbar and set
- options.
- - Added the display of a short description of the button command.
- - Added new commands: Full screen, Close window, Minimize window and
- Maximize window.
- 1.01: - There was a problem when DosBar was closed by some task managers and
- a DOS application was running. Now you can't close DosBar when
- any DOS application is running.
- 1.00: - First version of DosBar.
-
-