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Hi all,

I was started creating my own Finder bar program, becouse I don't like ObjectBar anymore. I want to create fast, nice application with all functions which you can find on real Mac OS. But I need help: Does anybody has screenshot from the real Finder bar with the slightest detail? Please send me them, becouse I must have a good source to create this app.

Also, I would need help in Visual Basic too. I want to hide menus in apps and show them on finder bar, but I don't know how to do it. Please help.

Pithos ;p

#5187

Oh, I forget, here is my mail: pithos@tenbit.pl

#5188

COOL! Sounds like it'll be a cool program. If you're looking for screenshots,this page is the only place I could think of right now

#5220

Go to this site and save the web to your hard drive because there is a lot of information and pictures about the menus

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx...enus/index.html

#5398

ah, sounds exciting!

#5409

how come all these programs that we get are done in basic?

#5412

yeah, thanks for all. but I don't know how to open *.hqx format file....?

#5481

Originally posted by pithos@Dec 10 2002, 01:02 AM

yeah, thanks for all. but I don't know how to open *.hqx format file....?

Use Stuffit Expander...

Siddharth

#5485

but I don't know how to hide active windows menus and place them on the bar now... I don't understand all and I'm waiting for help... meby somebody knows any pages (good pages) about VB6? and if I can't wrote replacing windows menus, I have an idea:

my bar can be only shortcut bar as like as dock, but more simplier, easier and easy for our eyes. I like round clock in a dock, but when I want to look at them (I had small ObjectDock) I must move mouse cursor around them... when we have time and date in many formats (for ex. "few minutes after five" - I want to place in them this format) its more easier and faster to read them. also we can put on bar some plugin icons, for ex. - temperature, humidity, weather, processor useable, resolution, sound and of course, internet connect icon.

Please, write in this topic all your suggestions, propositions and inventions.

#5486

Where I can find them?

#5487

If you dont know much about writing programs, you should learn a little more before asking everyone how to write this and that. Try looking up some web pages on how to write in visual basic. Begging for information is not going to help you. Besides, that is only one small part of the program that you will be writing, I am assuming. You need at least a good amount of knowledge before jumping into a project like the one you are describing. No one here can teach you how to write in visual basic in one reply, nor can they describe to you how to make a program do something in specific. Those are very complex things that you will need to learn by reading, or by someone teaching you.

#5495

Sounds EXCELLENT, pithos!

I really can't wait to hear more news about this app. I'll be a blast.

Im really impressed with the aquasoft community, it not only expands in users, but expands in applications!

Keep the good work comin'!

#5536

there is an old UNIX saying that can help you in your situation.

RTFM

#5537

telmos, that is an incredibly screwed up thing to say for someone at least has the initiative to do something. but it's still pretty funny

#5649

well if you don't know vb already, maybe you should put your energy toward learning a more powerful language like VB.NET or C++

#5650

I can write them in VB, but this is only one thing that I can't do. meby you'll right, but in C++ I'm very very very bad.... But I want to write this prog!

#5775

Why not make the program open source? That way you can write the basic foundation, and then others who are better at VB can fill in the gaps. It'd be a lot easier than asking everyone how to make the program do this and that...

-godpunk

#5778

I would recommend writing this in C++ b'coz it will not only be more stable than a VB application but it will also run much faster if it is a pre-compiled program instead of a application which depends on VB run-time libraries...

Siddharth

#5791

siddhart, you have right! but I must learn C++ from zero... and it eat a lot of time...

#5865

That's true...but believe me, it's worth it

Siddharth

#5870

What's RTFM mean??????

#6047

Read The Fucking Manual

#6056

C++ = me no like so much (1st year Computer Science Major and sick of C++ already )

#6084

lol, i fell for you there man

#6088

You will have several problems trying to write a decent menubar app in vb (not saying its not possible)

1: VB is inherintly slow (you just can't tell cause you rich blokes have P4's and Athlon's) those of us with 300-600 mhz celerons won't be able to run your app at decent speed.

2: You need to hook some GDI function calls and not every app draws menu bars in the same way (skinnable apps & explorer windows especially)

3: Just the act of hooking the gdi calls will slow things down a bit (macvision on a 5x86 produces noticable speed diff to me)

VB will slow this more

Programs like MacVision show that doing such an app is possible, but it requires a robust fast language such as C or asm.

If anyone knows how macvision hooked the menu drawing calls I'd love to hear about it.

#6298