Toolbar 95 Version 1.1.0.0 Copyright (C) 1996 by Silent Software. All rights reserved. 28-May-96 ====================================== To best view this release note select Edit | Wordwrap from Notepad. If using Wordpad, select View | Options, Text and then Wrap To Window. CONTENTS -------- 1. INTRODUCTION 2. INSTALLATION 3. UNINSTALLING 4. FILES INSTALLED 5. KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS 6. RELEASE HISTORY AND CHANGES 7. LEGAL LIMITATIONS 8. FURTHER INFORMATION ------------------------------ 1. INTRODUCTION Thankyou for choosing Toolbar 95. This program is a Toolbar for Windows 95. It allows files to be dragged from Explorer onto one of many toolbars, and then for that file to be started with a single mouse click or keypress. The program supports up to 10 toolbars on screen at any time, and "unlimited" toolbars on disk (limited only by disk space). Each toolbar can contain up to 256 buttons, each button representing a file or folder on your computer. The last toolbar can be quickly displayed with a hotkey, as can the main menu. Buttons can be moved or copied between toolbars, or change position on the current toolbar. Files can be dragged onto certain buttons to start them with an application different from their File Type. A button's icon can be changed from the standard shell icon. See (4) FILES INSTALLED for a list of files installed when you install the Toolbar. See (8) FURTHER INFORMATION for more information on what Toolbar does. 2. INSTALLATION To install Toolbar 95, perform the following actions:- a. Locate the directory containing the Toolbar installation files. b. Double click the "Setup" application. c. Follow the instructions given. Installation should take about 2 minutes. You will require 284Kb of hard disk space. Further space may be required during use of the Toolbar. Some files may not copy if they are already in use, e.g. if you are using Toolbar v1.0 while installing v1.1. Although the setup program is designed to deal with such occurrences, Windows does not give Setup the opportunity. For this reason, please exit Toolbar 95 before installing this version. 3. UNINSTALLING To remove Toolbar 95 from your system (i.e. uninstall it), perform the following actions:- a. Click the Start Menu button. b. Select "Settings", and then "Control Panel". c. Select "Add/Remove Programs". d. In the list box at the bottom of the dialog box, locate "Toolbar 95". e. Select"Add/Remove". f. Follow the instructions given. Please note that the Setup program is not removed during uninstallation. This is because you are using it to uninstall Toolbar. When you restart Windows, the setup files will be automatically removed from your hard disk. 4. FILES INSTALLED By default, the following files are installed to C:\PROGRAM FILES\TOOLBAR 95. (This folder can be changed during installation). Filename Size SETUP.EXE 67Kb SETUP.DLL 41Kb SETUP.INF 2Kb TOOLBAR.EXE 105Kb TOOLBAR.HLP 54Kb TOOLBAR.CNT 3Kb README.TXT 12Kb By default, shortcuts are made in a Toolbar 95 program group, and in the startup group. This can be changed during installation. 5. KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS The following items detail bugs and limitations in the product, that are known about in this release: * Although shortcuts can be dropped onto a toolbar, the .LNK file associated with the shortcut must remain on the hard disk. I.e., you cannot delete the original shortcut. This shall be dealt with in the next major release. * While a property sheet is open for a particular object, property sheets for similar objects cannot be accessed. * Objects such as the Recycle Bin and Inbox, cannot be dropped onto a toolbar. This shall be dealt with in the next major release. * Selecting Alt+Tab between toolbars, and then deselecting it, will keep the task bar button available when it should be closed. It will be removed when Toolbar is closed. * You can only choose icons for a button from ICO files, 32 bit DLLs and 32 bit EXEs. This is partially a limitation in Toolbar, and partially in Windows 95. This may be fixed in the future. * Certain "Virtual Desktop" applications stop the Toolbar from appropriately repositioning itself when the screen is resized using an application such as "QuickRes", a Microsoft PowerToy. If the "Virtual Desktop" application is not running, repositioning occurs correctly. 6. RELEASE HISTORY AND CHANGES 28-May-96: v1.1.0.0 --------- * Added Toolbars page to main property sheet allowing central configuration of toolbars. * Added Buttons page to toolbar property sheet allowing central configuration of buttons. * Added recent file list. * Added icon page to Button property sheet, allowing the user to change the icon for a button. * Ability to add spaces between buttons, to enable logical grouping of buttons on a toolbar. * Added hotkeys to bring last toolbar to front, or to display the main menu. * Allow the user to quickly left click one of the first 9 buttons using the keys 1 to 9. * Added 'Anywhere' docking option. * Added New Toolbar dialog when a new toolbar is created. This can be switched off. * Buttons which can accept dropped files now display visual feedback so user knows that they will start the dropped file, and not add it to the toolbar. * Buttons which accept dropped files can now convert the parameter to 8.3 filename format for 16-bit compatibility. * Executed dropped files are added to the Documents popup off the Start button. * Buttons which may produce an error because the file is unavailable, now remain on the toolbar, but have a cross through them so you know they're unavailable. The cross is removed if the button becomes available again. * Added Close popup to main menu, including a Close All option. * Either mouse button displays icon menu. Double click to toggle toolbars (default menu item) * Toolbars containing no buttons are not prompted to be saved, and will not open when restarting. * Border size configurable; border now looks nicer. * Added Only one toolbar open at a time option. * Added Open | Others menu option. * Main Menu Properties option renamed to Options. * Right click the toolbar for toolbar menu. Ctrl right click for button menu. Ctrl right click button for toolbar menu. * Left clicking a button now makes it push in. * Removed the splash screen at startup. * Changed the way toolbars are opened so that they open faster. * Changed the About dialog box to be less resource hungry, and to pick up version information from the version resource. * About box allows you to view the web page. * Removed the task button. * Fixed bug with using high colour screen resolution and 256 colour icons. * Fixed bug with new toolbars not being resized. * Fixed bug when dropping folders - drives still don't drop properly. * Fixed bug when using Toolbar with XMouse. The menus would not appear so the user could not use the toolbar at all. * Fixed bug with remembering position of a floating toolbar. 25-Mar-96: v1.0 --------- * Setup and Uninstall completed. * Fixed bug where toolbars would not be saved on shutdown. * Assumed bug when change display size using QuickRes was found to be because of Virtual Desktop programs. * Added keywords to help file, and related topics index. * Added initial Setup program. Adds shortcuts appropriately. Auto configures file types. * Fixed bug when you change display size. It still has problems if you change to 1024x768 though. * Fixed bug where selection wouldn't change if you selected with mouse. * Made left clicking task button produce main menu. * You can now Alt+Tab between Toolbars. This is an application property. Set to OFF by default. If ON, then switched OFF, you will not be able to Alt+Tab, but the task bar button for the toolbar remains. * You can now use the keyboard to move between buttons. When a toolbar has the keyboard focus, the cursor keys move between buttons. Home moves to the first. End to the last. Space or enter left clicks the button. Backspace or the Context menu key on 105-key keyboards, right clicks it. * App.Props: Open On Start is disabled and cleared if Save On Close is not set. * Help file created. * Access help from most menus and in property sheets. Main menu help cannot be accessed with F1- something to do with either it being generated from the tray bar, or because the main window is hidden. * Ability to open a toolbar from the command line. * Only one instance is allowed. * Accelerators added to property sheets. * Mutliple dialog boxes (of the same type) could be opened. When closed a GPF would occur. Fixed, except for the Save dialog box. * If you dropped a shortcut, then went to the property sheet, you could not get to the Appearance tab. Fixed. This also means that dropped files are now validated correctly - before they weren't validated at all! * Toolbar position is now saved correctly. * Cancel an Open does not give an error anymore. * Tooltips would not always display if a number of toolbars were close together. The toolbar being tipped is now brought to the front to fix this. * Closing a window will now successfully redock any toolbars. * About dialog box would obscure error messages at startup. Fixed. * Stopped user from trying to open the same toolbar twice. This caused a problem when you closed. (It would open the same toolbar more than once when you next started). * Tab order of property sheets fixed. * Fixed bug when buttons moved, copied, inserted, or deleted (!) 11-Feb-96: Alpha Release --------- * Toolbar with all initial functionality, including OLE Drag and Drop, Clipboard, and property sheets. Currently no help file, or setup utility. 7. LEGAL LIMITATIONS Toolbar 95 is copyright (C) 1996 by Silent Software. All rights reserved. Toolbar 95 is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from the use of Toolbar 95. Toolbar 95 is a "freeware program" and is provided at no charge to the user. You are allowed to distribute it to your friends. Do not alter Toolbar 95 or any of the supporting files. Do not separate the files included with this release. Do not give away the files as a package, or a subset of the files, as part of another system. Shareware vendors and CD-Rom manufacturers are freely allowed to distribute this product and ask a nominal charge for the distribution. Vendors are also advised to contact the author before distribution to ensure that they are distributing the most recent version of Toolbar 95. Magazine cover disks can only contain Toolbar 95, or any of its supporting files, after permission has been granted by the author. Contact information is given in section 8. 8. FURTHER INFORMATION If you require further information on how to use the program, or what it does, see the Toolbar Help file (TOOLBAR.HLP), installed by default to C:\Program Files\Toolbar 95, although this location can be changed during installation. If you would like to contact the author, I can be e-mailed at: sharris@netcentral.co.uk At the time of writing (28-May-96), I can only guarantee this address until the end of August 96. Any comments about Toolbar 95, bugs (argh!), or whatever - I'll be happy to hear from you. Finally, thanks for installing Toolbar 95 - I hope you find it useful, and that it improves your day to day use of Windows 95. Steve Harris Sandbach, Cheshire, England 28th May 1996. E-mail: sharris@netcentral.co.uk WWW: http://www.netcentral.co.uk/~sharris