Hot Bar

I posted this a month or so ago... no-one replyed then either!


How does HotBar work?

(it overlays an image over the browser's toolbar and menu)
http://hotbar.com

Hi Mark - I read an article on that the other week, but I cannot find the magazine now. It was Personal Computer World(the latest version I think). www.vnunet.com In the hands on section. You use the registry as far as I can remember. You can also change the little spinning globe.

I don't know the answer but I would love to know. I have it running right now on IE. Does anyone else get an annoying popup about getting the newest version by clicking yes?

it is a setting in the registry. the program probably just makes a api call to set the value in the registry, and each time an instance of ie starts it get the value. the registry setting is [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\BackBitmap] and you set backbitmap to the filename of the bitmap you want. you can do it by hand in using regedit.exe
ex: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\BackBitmap = "c:\windows\clouds.bmp"

for more info goto http://www.regedit.com/cgi-bin/detail?id=66

hope that helps

don

Thanks for that dblay!

Do any other apps support this feature?

[Edited by Mark Sreeves on 03-29-2000 at 02:22 AM]