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**markman** · Jun 4th, 2001, 05:05 PM

How about making a vbforums toolbar for Ie. look at http://toolbar.google.com/ for an example. There could be a navigation part, a customizable search part, so you could search for your posts, and so on. Think about it!

**gwdash** · Jun 5th, 2001, 08:54 PM

that would be cool! i'm just starting to learn this type of COM programming (Desk Bands), and might create one of these as a sample project

**Xenonic_Rob** · Jun 6th, 2001, 12:25 PM

That's a fantastic idea...

**markman** · Jul 2nd, 2001, 12:37 PM

Is this going to happen?

**MidgetsBro** · Jul 3rd, 2001, 04:58 AM

If it does happen, it will probably be a user that creates it. John won't have anything to do with it, unless he likes it, then he might create a link like this one: Help VB World help a good cause! so that people will download it. First though, someone needs to make it.

**markman** · Jul 3rd, 2001, 07:28 AM

anyone know how to make that? If I knew what language, I could learn it then start making it.

**parksie** · Jul 3rd, 2001, 07:29 AM

C++

**markman** · Jul 3rd, 2001, 07:40 AM

Is it c++? gwdash was saying something about com, and that is vb or c++. Is there a site on how to build a toolbar for ie?

**parksie** · Jul 3rd, 2001, 07:44 AM

VB does use COM, but I've never seen how to accurately implement all the interfaces for the Shell.

**markman** · Jul 3rd, 2001, 08:45 AM

Well, have you seen anything with the souce code released? It would be easier if there was already one done, and it would be easy enough to modify it for this site.

**parksie** · Jul 3rd, 2001, 10:50 AM

MSDN most likely.

**eric445** · Jul 30th, 2001, 04:12 AM

It is possible to make desk bands/explorer bars in Visual Basic.

I found a book on it called 'Visual Basic Shell Programming.' Sample projects from it and more information is avalible here:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vbshell

Let me know if this helps.

**markman** · Jul 31st, 2001, 09:28 AM

I just downloaded the source and by a cursory glance, Chapter 12 source seems to look like what we want. Im not sure what to do with the dll, though. Anyone have the book in pdf or html format to look at the text for the source?

**eric445** · Jul 31st, 2001, 06:00 PM

Originally posted by markman
I just downloaded the source and by a cursory glance, Chapter 12 source seems to look like what we want. Im not sure what to do with the dll, though. Anyone have the book in pdf or html format to look at the text for the source?

Stick the DLL in your system directory and register it. Then merge the .reg file into the registry.

I found the RegSpace example to crash explorer like every few seconds

but it could just be my computer.

The Explorer Bar (FileSpider) was also buggy but did work.

**gwdash** · Jul 31st, 2001, 06:05 PM

I have the examples in c++, which would be faster than doing it in vb, it could be made fairly simply

**eiSecure** · Aug 1st, 2001, 02:08 PM

http://www.domaindlx.com/e_morcillo/

Just browse around a little, and you'll find the code for adding bands to IE using VB.

**markman** · Aug 2nd, 2001, 09:59 AM

Ok, now to get to work. What we will need is a main control button, like the toolbar.google.com first button, a combobox to select the forum to go to, a textbox to search the site, and post reply/new thread buttons.

Can you think of anything else that would be useful?
I dont know about you, but Im dropping all my other vb project to work on this!

**eiSecure** · Aug 2nd, 2001, 05:56 PM

How about a little box where it opens up on the left or bottom side of IE with a listview of the posts and stuff, and we can reply to them right from the program, and the program will display the posts. I think that beats the UI of VBForums hands-down (sorry, John) b/c it is application driven, so it has more flexibility and more power.

....and a search feature that does work would be nice.

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