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Wake up!! CandyBarZ is here! CandyBarZ is THE titlebar replacement for
OS/2. CandyBarZ' primary feature is gradient-filled titlebars; you choose
the top and bottom colors, and it does the rest. Both active and inactive
colors are supported, and CandyBarZ will not muck up your titlebar text
colors or fonts. Custom colors for individual programs are also supported.
!NEW IN VERSION 1.20b!
- Support for images inside titlebars!
- Support for 3 dimensional text inside titlebars!
- New look and feel for the Setup Dialog!
- More bug fixes. ahem....
!!CAUTION!! - The installation process has changed. If you are upgrading,
DO NOT UNINSTALL FIRST! Uninstallation will delete your CandyBar.INI file,
and your customization efforts will be wasted.
PLEASE read the instructions thoroughly before proceeding with installation.
As CandyBarZ REPLACES PART OF OS/2, failure to follow the instructions
accurately may result in severe problems.
Extensive online help is also available.
The Files
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Just to make sure everything is in order before you start, check that the
following files were extracted from the CandyBarZ archive:
CandyBar.dll
PSRT.DLL
CBSetup.exe
CBSetup.hlp
CandyBar.txt (since you're reading it now...)
Requirements
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OS/2. CandyBarZ has been tested with OS/2 Warp 3 and Warp 4. It
should work on any 32-bit OS/2 platform, however.
MMOS/2 is used for image file support and must be installed.
New Installation
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Start the CBSetup program. Until CandyBarZ is installed, the setup
notebook has only one page, Install/Uninstall. This page will let you
select the destination directories for CandyBar.dll, PSRT.dll and
CandyBar.ini (note that CandyBar.ini is NOT included in the archive, it
will be created when CandyBarZ is first loaded). Context sensitive help
is available for all controls on this page (tab to the control and hit
F1).
When the installation is complete, you must reboot so that OS/2 can
load CandyBar.dll.
NOTE: Whack-A-Mole uses a previous version of PSRT.DLL. If you have
Whack-A-Mole installed, please remove the version of PSRT.DLL that came
with Whack-A-Mole.
NOTE: CandyBar.dll and PSRT.DLL MUST reside in a directory specified in
your LIBPATH line in CONFIG.SYS.
Upgrade
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!!CAUTION!! - The installation process has changed. If you are upgrading,
DO NOT UNINSTALL FIRST! Uninstallation will delete your CandyBar.INI file,
and your customization efforts will be wasted.
Start the CBSetup program and turn to the Install/Uninstall page. Press
the "Install" button. Reboot to load the new DLLs.
Customization
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Once CandyBarZ is installed, two additional pages are added to the setup
notebook, one for the default color scheme, and one for custom colors.
The Default Colors page will let you set up the scheme that CandyBarZ uses
for all titlebars which don't have an explicit custom scheme. The Custom
Colors page, of course, lets you choose custom colors program by program,
as well as disable CandyBarZ program by program.
Online help is available for all fields on these pages.
Potential Problems
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Some programs may either have problems with CandyBarZ or completely ignore
CandyBarZ.
A list of known problems is included in the online help, as well as
instructions for selectively disabling CandyBarZ.
There may be additional problems not listed in the online help. Please
report them to us at
peter.garner@toward.com
Registration
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There is none! CandyBarZ has been released to OS/2 Netlabs and, as a
consequence, is now FREE!
License and Disclaimer
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There are no warranties, express or implied. The authors and OS/2 Netlabs
may not be held responsible for any damage, direct or indirect, caused to
your computer, productivity, or anything else by this software. This
software is not warranted to be free of bugs.
This software may not be used for military purposes. It may be used by
military personnel in a civilian setting for civilian purposes only.
History
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24 July, 1997 1.00 Initial release
02 August, 1997 1.01 Fix lots of bugs, probably introduce some
others
02 September, 1997 1.10 Add horizontal gradients, fill option, 3D
border highlight, clean up CBSetup some, fix
bugs, some optimizations
27 September, 1998 1.20b Fix bugs, of course. Add 3D text, redesign
CBSetup, add image support, add PMView and S3
workarounds