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McToolBar 2.3 - [Advanced multi-style toolbar with Chevrons]
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Hi guys, The new version of McToolBar-2.3 is released now and it claims itself as the most advanced toolbar writen in VB. It could solve the very big task 'Chevrons' (see Screenshot) and have multi-style appearance. All the drawing routines are completly re-writen and it works very sooth. The features includes... single file'd, ownerdraw with, multi-styles(Flat,Soft,Solid,Win98,WinXP,Plastic and full range of colour options), HoverEffect, Custom ToolTips with balloon style and icons, Unicode support, fully customizable Gradient effects, Tiled background and many more... It is stylish, customizable and easy to use. "The control does not use any property pages for item manipulation! All the opeartions can be done
directly from the vb's property window". Thanks for all who helped me in the previous release
with there comments and feedbacks. Lets try the new one and make this control more perfect!!! Jim Jose
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 1/11/2006 10:17:14 PM: dreamvb
Wow this does look nice. And better then the normal One that looks like it was made by a 3 year old. You sure know your stuff and make some very decent controls.
It's not often you see people make cool stuff like this on Pscode. But you prove that there are still skilled VB people on here. Keep up the good work 5 from me.
O i was just wondering as I seen you now make a
Custom ListBox, Custom ImageList and This Toolbar. Have you any plans to make a Custom Tree View control as that would make a nice controls set then.
5 *****
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1/12/2006 1:33:02 AM: CodeFester
Nice upgrade with this. My only suggestion is to separate it out as a user control project and demo host exe project so as to make ready to go to work. Also, the demo project could be a bit more flexible; for example make one or 2 of the tool bars, then have them change as users change the properties by clicking the many buttons on the demo form. I give it a high 5 though and respect you for sharing your hard work.
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1/12/2006 7:25:43 AM: Jim Jose
Thanks guys, yeah there is a real tough work behind this control. I am so happy to share my codes here at PSC, after all I learned everything I have from here. Thanks again for ur support.
You can find the old version and project history here....http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=62769&lngWId =1
Zip updated with ActiveX project to build Ocx directly.
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1/12/2006 9:01:40 AM: Peter
Fantastic piece of art! Definitely 5*!
Can you make it float?
Thanks for sharing!
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1/12/2006 11:54:07 AM: Jim
Excellent work. Nice improvements. One feature that would really round it out would be support for drop down Button Menus, similar to the VB toolbar control.
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1/12/2006 7:46:38 PM: Stewart
The code is clean, the effect is nice. It's a very nicely done control. Thanks for the great work :)
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1/12/2006 8:10:59 PM: ٭ega
Great Control, as a suggestion can you have a gradient hover color. So that it can have an Office 2003 style. Btw, 5 globes.
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1/12/2006 8:42:06 PM: lvlhed
Some real nice GUI stuff lately... *****
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1/12/2006 8:56:11 PM: zoom
Amazing!!!!!Amazing!!!!!Amazing!!!!!Amazing!!!!!
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1/12/2006 10:24:48 PM:
can you make office 2003 style
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1/14/2006 5:14:17 AM: Jim Jose
Yeah, my plans for the next version are 1)Different width to each button 2)Autosize 3)Button Drag drop 4)Better themes (including office 2003)
Thanks for ur support. Keep posting ur feedbacks... Bye
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1/14/2006 6:20:25 AM: Mark Anthony Dinglasa
Yeah very nice and advance toolbar.... 5 globes for that nice piece of work !
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1/14/2006 8:57:17 PM: Heriberto Mantilla Santamaria
wow, Jim thx so much for this.
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1/16/2006 1:36:30 PM: Mirko Kressmann
Wow, absolut fantastic control! Thx so much. ... one thing ... whats about Buttonmenues?
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1/16/2006 10:51:12 PM: TuanHai
Great control! five stars for you. Waiting for your next version.
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1/17/2006 12:59:03 PM: Anibal Sarasua
Excelllllllent work again Jim! 5 globes for you!, i have one more suggestion, XP icons support! please!, and i convert this proyect to stand alone ocx with property pages.
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1/18/2006 9:36:21 AM: Phantom Man
Well Done Jim, Excellent Code, Well Written And Very Readable.
Gary
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1/18/2006 10:31:44 PM: Fred.cpp
Great Work. I can't give you less than 5 Globes.
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1/19/2006 9:21:17 PM: Option Explicit
Jim, this control is fabulous. Not much else I can say except thanks.
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1/25/2006 1:16:48 AM: ackid32
excellent
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1/25/2006 10:52:54 AM: Richard Mewett
Jim, this is a great toolbar! The button appearance and graphical styles are 1st class. Have my *****
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1/28/2006 12:06:12 PM: Steppenwolfe
This is very nice work, gets my 5..
The only thing I would suggest, is that you list the properties/methods in the demonstration form..
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1/29/2006 8:36:48 AM: VBtutor
Master piece ... In general I trust and admire all your posts ... Keep the good art alive ... 5 globes
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2/12/2006 7:33:35 AM: xpert
Excellent replacement (and enhancement, of course) for the standard VB ToolBar control. Thanks for sharing and continously improving it.
I would like to use it in my projects, but I can't because in the IDE when I CLOSE the demo window, VB6 crashes. The same happens with the exe. I have Windows 98 SE. Anyone had that problem too? Jim, if that behaviour is a bug, can you fix it?
Thanks again for making and sharing the best ownerdrawn toolbar I've ever seen...
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2/12/2006 9:06:07 AM: Jim Jose
xpert, I am using winXP.... But I started and developed McToolBar on Win98 SE and I never got such an issue. Anyway I will check for it's possibility!!
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2/19/2006 8:51:12 AM: xpert
Hi Jim, it is me again.
Can you confirm me if you were able of replicating the crash of VB when closing the demo in Windows 98 SE?
Perhaps the problem is in UserControl_Terminate. I can't help you with that because I don't know subclassing.
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2/21/2006 6:31:49 PM: Andrew M. Goncharov
Still can`t find how to place small pix... And why images can`t be copied/pasted through Clipboard?
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2/22/2006 8:59:28 AM: Andrew M. Goncharov
..... I mean resize 32-pixel ones to 16-pixels
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2/22/2006 1:58:33 PM: Jim Jose
1. I will add it for the next version...
2. I have no idea... :) Its all about Property window
Thanks for ur suggessions !!
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2/23/2006 4:03:27 AM: Thabo
Hi, Jim.
How a nice uc. 5* 2 u
I've problem with ur control that i can't access the button in the chevron area. I used W'XP SP.24 VB'6 SP6. Tx
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2/23/2006 4:19:11 AM: Andrew M. Goncharov
Jim, can you describe what are your Chevrons for? How to use them if they`re hide on MouseMove? In MS Office, they are clickable and full functional ones.
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2/23/2006 7:53:40 AM: Jim Jose
Andrew M. Goncharov, Chevrons will only be visible if they are needed !! When the side of uv HC is not sufficient to draw all the buttons, the rest of buttons are marked to be a chevron button(internally) and now we can see the pop button on the right side. Clicking on it will display the chev buttons in a new DC (picturebox)
Thabo: Let me chek that !! There is no problem for me. May be its a width issue. Try changing the width!!
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2/26/2006 7:24:27 AM: xpert
Can anyone that has Windows 98 SE tell me if VB6 crashed (or not) when closing the demo? I have that problem.
Apparently the terminating process of the control could be unstable on that OS...
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2/26/2006 10:18:23 PM: Thabo
Hi Jim, meet U again.
My problem is same with Andrew M. Goncharov'problem. When we clicked the chevron sign, the button in chevron will appear but unclicklable so not function properly. Tx for ur assist.
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3/1/2006 4:08:51 AM: SikLife
Nice man... I have a few questions if you have the time hit me up also maybe if you would be instrested in a group projects, anyways, Aim via @ iL MyStiCaL / Yahoo via SickMindProductions
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3/26/2006 5:36:03 PM: Snerf
Is it just me, or if you align the toolbar to the left or right, it draws like its still aligned to the top/bottom, it does not go vertical.
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5/14/2006 4:30:16 AM: rudz
Really nice, easy to use and looks very good :) *x5 from me
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5/15/2006 11:52:36 PM: kbhrx
superb work, thanks alot for sharing
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7/23/2006 3:33:57 PM: elan
Excellent,easy to use and looks very good
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8/17/2006 2:12:04 AM: lhc
it is a good toolbar, but i want to know how to change the buttonicon when the program run(just click a command button,and the mctoolbar's buttonicon can be change a other icon)
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2/15/2007 9:25:56 PM: Jason Newland
Jim, this control version works a hell of a lot better than your first submitted one. The first one had redraw problems when i added a timer to "flash" the icon on a particular button (to get the users attention) it would flicker. Also, I didn't like the fact that the button had no other option than transparent. Now, you seem to have outdone yourself and fixed what I wanted in the first place. Great control, great coding. 5 globes to you :)
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2/15/2007 9:33:00 PM: Jason Newland
snerf: I had the same problem but I found if in the UC resize part if you remark ' out these lines:
If m_BorderStyle = BDR_None Then
Height = m_ButtonsHeight * ((m_Button_Count - 1) \ m_ButtonsPerRow + 1) * Screen.TwipsPerPixelY
Else
Height = (m_ButtonsHeight * ((m_Button_Count - 1) \ m_ButtonsPerRow + 1) + 7) * Screen.TwipsPerPixelY
End If
then it resizes and shows the background area correctly when aligned left or right.
Hope this helps :)
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10/4/2007 7:56:04 AM: Jason Newland
Also, Jim, another note, you removed the WarpSize property from the control and i liked that property when you set the button width, it auto adjusts the toolbar width to the edge of the button (if buttons per row is 1 and alignment is left or right). I added it from your old version. Maybe add it back in as an option with the default property of False?
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10/10/2007 11:46:31 AM: Brent
Nice toolbar. Could use some tweaking for MDI.
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4/7/2010 11:16:03 AM: Thong Nguyen
I dont know use Unicode caption of McToolbar. How? I'm Vietnamese. Can you help me!
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12/29/2011 8:26:22 PM: It learner
Wow great wonderful excellent control.
5stars from me for this.
But i am getting problem while working with this. When i assign an 16*16 icon for its button. The icon is looking too much big.
How can i solve this?
Plz help me if you know. Thanks
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