Hi guys, to demonstrate my problem, i have enlisted the help of windows media player, as you can see from the screen shot below, WMP sits on the task bar, is there a way i could get a small form to do the same thing?
With a simple icon and a text box?
Thank you
ILMV
Last edited by I_Love_My_Vans; Feb 16th, 2006 at 06:22 PM.
Eduardo A. Morcillo's VB6 code page now is here. (mentioned in the EE page)
The 'Explorer Bands' project from the Shell Extensions samples is what you need.
To run the project you'll also need OLELIB.TLB - OLE interfaces & functions v1.7 and Shell Extensions [FIX - Missing files] from that page.
Compile the dll project or register the existing one. Right click on Taskbar. Choose 'Toolbars' and click on "Recent VB Projects - Desktop Band Sample"
Hey I'm just continuing. I'm looking to make a deskband toolbar. The sample from that site sorta works. It adds an item to the list of toolbars to choose from, but when i select it, nothing shows up, and if I unlock the taksbar so that I can scale it, it just shows a white box covering the entire section of that toolbar.
Also when I try to play or compile the project, I get this error: [BadImplementsRefInCompatLib]
EDIT:
Ok I forgot to mention that I downloaded the OLELIB files. I also forgot to copy the OLELIB files to my windows direct, I only copied the OLELIB2 files. Anyhow, copying those files to my system32 directory fixed the [BadImplementsRefInCompatLib] error, but I still can't seem to get the toolbar to work in the taskbar. I get an option to add "VB Knowledge Base Search" toolbar in Windows Explorer, but there is no "Recent VB Projects - Deskband sample" option. I did have it the first time I registered the dll, but once I unregistered and reregistered, it was not there.
Last edited by adamm83; Jan 22nd, 2007 at 05:00 PM.
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