Creating a Toolbar

[Jeff Gaines]

I have recently installed a very neat app which puts an icon on my TaskBar
showing the state of charge of the battery on my laptop. Windows
recognised it as a Toolbar, i.e. when I right click on the Taskbar and
select Toolbars it is available as a Toolbar. It requires Net 2 installed
to work.

I would like to write an app that behaves in a similar way but Googling
for 'toolbar' produces results relating to the Toolbar control rather than
what I am really looking for.

Can anybody give me a steer as to what I should be searching for to write
something similar please.

The Battery Bar app is at:
http://osirisdevelopment.com/BatteryBar/

and you can see it puts a neat graphic on the taskbar.

 

[Mick Doherty]

I believe that is a 'Desk Band'.

 

[Jeff Gaines]

On 01/11/2009 in message <#[email protected]> Mark Rae
[MVP] wrote:

[snipped]

Many thanks Mick & Mark - filled a gap in my education

 

[Chris Dunaway]

On 01/11/2009 in message <#[email protected]> Mark Rae

[MVP] wrote:

[snipped]

Many thanks Mick & Mark - filled a gap in my education

I'm not sure if a Desk Band constitutes a shell extension, but if it
does, you should avoid writing it in .Net:

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/12/18/1317290.aspx

 

[Jeff Gaines]

On 01/11/2009 in message <#[email protected]> Mark Rae

[MVP] wrote:

[snipped]

Many thanks Mick & Mark - filled a gap in my education

I'm not sure if a Desk Band constitutes a shell extension, but if it
does, you should avoid writing it in .Net:

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/12/18/1317290.aspx

Sometimes I am very tempted to dust off my C compiler