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From: demillo@porter.geo.brown.edu (Rob DeMillo)
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Subject: Re: toolbar
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Date: 7 May 91 14:52:25 GMT
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In article <1991May6.202626.10316@infonode.ingr.com> pottera@infonode.ingr.com (Andrew Potter) writes:
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>I am interested in what approach should be taken to implementing a tool
>bar, such as the one used in Excel.  I haven't seen anything in the way of
>direct support for it in the SDK.  Is there anything?  Or does anyone have 
>any suggestions as to how it should be approached?

The MS Toolbar concept is a big hack, and its pretty easy to
implement. The 'bar' itself is a modeless dialog box without
borders, etc. The 'tools' are simple push buttons. (The dialog
box is scaled to exactly fit the width of the push buttons, and the
buttons are shoved next to each other.) Simple icons are then placed
on the buttons. (Button positions can be obtained in screen
coordinates (rather than the device independent dialog coordinate
system, which is the default coordinate system for all dialog boxes)
by a quicky little mapping function. I came up with a mapping
function that does the trick, which I'll post if anyone is
interested....

Anyway, that's all there is to it...then just treat the 'tools' 
like you would any other dialog box button....


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