Index

 ClikTest Index

 ClikTest is a demonstration of  ClickBar.DLL v1.5 by  WynApse.  WynApse is in the business of developing high-quality Microsoft Windows Applications for the end-user and Microsoft Windows development tools for the Windows developer.  ClickBar v1.5 is a dynamic-link library used to supply a  Windows 3.0 and 3.1 developer with a "button-bar" interface similar to Excel or Word.

  Wyn.Apse (wi naps') n. the point of

 I. 	Using the ClikTest demo	  contact between adjacent Windows

 II. 	About ClickBar.DLL	  where nerve impulses are transmitted

 III. 	Ordering ClickBar.DLL	  from one to the other.

 IV. 	Contacting WynApse

 V. 	Building Help like this without WinWord

 VI. 	Windows 3.0/3.1


Using ClikTest

 Using the ClikTest demo

Clicking the left mouse button on any of the buttons in the upper 4 rows will display in the text-box on the bottom of the dialog, the index name used in servicing the button.  This is the Index value reported to your Windows Application as wParam in a WM_COMMAND message.  Using  ClikTest, the developer can easily identify the ID names to insert in the application.

The demo is fully-functional as delivered with  ClickBar.


Upper-Row Buttons

The upper 4 rows of buttons in the demo are "live", and will display the control ID for the selected button in the text box at the bottom of the dialog.


This button-bar was built using ClickBar.DLL


About ClickBar
 About ClickBar.DLL

 ClickBar.DLL was written to provide the Borland Application Developer with a standardized "button-bar" interface.  Once users have become accustomed to using a button-bar, they will expect to have that capability in any quality product.

ClickBar v1.5 gives you the developer that capability now.  By adding approximately a dozen lines of code to your existing Microsoft Windows application, you can provide your users with the exciting new world of the button-bar.

Once the button-bar is in place in your application, you the developer can add a vast array of extensions to your application, such as assigning macros to buttons or redefining buttons based upon run-time conditions.  At this time, ClickDlg.DLL will provide an interface to your selection of buttons in a horizontal arrangement such as Excel or WinWord.

The experienced developer may use  ClickBar.DLL with the Borland Resource Workshop, and build any type of button-bar imaginable.


New in version 1.5 of Clickbar is the use of "single-image" bitmapped buttons. Version 1.0 required two images for each button, one for the unpressed image, and one for the pressed. Version 1.5 of ClickBar only requires a single image, with the DLL providing the 3D effects.

The user may still choose to use a double-image, as in version 1.0 to provide dissimilar images as is demonstrated in the VCR buttons provided.


Programming
 Programing with ClickBar

ClickBar is delivered with the complete source to an Excel look-alike Window application, called TestClik.  The various buttons in the button-bar send messages back to the main application for servicing.  The demonstration program (TestClik) is a fully-functional Window with button-servicing, an about box with version time-stamp, and Microsoft Windows Help.

Registered users are free to modify and use the source to TestClik in their particular application.


Developer's Tools
 Windows Developer's Tools

ClickBar

Button bar DLL for use with any Windows Application, includes ClickDlg.DLL.

NewApp

Quickly prototype a Windows application with help, dialog box, ini file,

  and about box.

Help Macros

Build Spectacular Windows Help files with and ASCII editor

See the Pricing Info for pricing.


Contacting WynApse

 WynApse may be contacted in one of three ways:

1) Compuserve Mail Address:

   72251, 445

2) US Mail Address:

   WynApse SoftWare

   P.O. Box 86247

   Phoenix, AZ 85080-6247

3) Telephone (The telephone lines are shut down 9PM to 8AM MST):

   (602) 863-0411


Building Help

As most Borland users, you the developer probably found yourself less than pleased to find that owning the help compiler did not do you a lot of good without something to produce "Rich Text Format".  Microsoft Word will do this, as will Microsoft Word for Windows.  There are other tools that will also produce the .RTF files.  Simply producing the files is not enough, however, because the syntax of footnoting to get the different Help capabilities is not necessarily straightforward.

 WynApse can provide developers with a set of macros for Brief, or at the very least, ASCII explanations of .RTF for all the capabilities demonstrated in this help file.  ClickBar.DLL is delivered with a test program TestClik, including a full-featured help skeleton that is a good ASCII starting point for help.

See the Pricing Info for pricing.


Pricing Info

 	Single-Unit prices (see order.doc, site.doc, & license.doc for quantity discounts, site-license

information, and order blank):

 All registrations include printed manual and next revision at reduced fee!

ClickBar Registration 	$35.00

NewApp Registration 	$10.00

Help Registration 	$10.00

Shareware Diskettes 	 $5.00

AZ residents add 6.7% sales tax.

Outside U.S. & Canada add $3.00 shipping per Product.

 Thank you for supporting the shareware concept and encouraging the future development of

Microsoft Windows shareware!

Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation


ClickBar

ClickBar is a complete professional button-bar toolkit.  ClickBar currently contains 73 different buttons for use in a toolbar of your design.  ClickBar interfaces seamlessly with the Borland Resource Workshop, providing the buttons as custom controls to the dialog editor.  Each control contains a setup screen with a COMBO BOX listing the button IDs available. Alternatively, an ASCII editor may be used to write a dialog file.

ClickBar is delivered with ClickDlg.DLL which provides the developer the interface to the buttons, avoiding the work involved to that end.  The toolbar appears in the application just below the title bar, or just below the menu, if there is a menu.  The toolbar moves with the window, and sizes with the window in a manner similar to Excel.

ClickBar is delivered with a complete toolbar example, source included, called TestClik.  TestClik has the look-and-feel of the Excel toolbar.  TestClik also contains a "splash-box" about box, and a Microsoft Help compatible help file.

See the Pricing Info for pricing.


NewApp

NewApp is a DOS executable which produces a Windows application skeleton.  This skeleton includes the following files:

<filename>.c

<filename>.rc

<filename>.dlg

<filename>.h

<filename>.rtf

<filename>.hpj

<filename>.mak

<filename>.help make

newapp.ico and newapp.bmp are included

The application produced has a "Splash-box" style about box, Microsoft Help compatible help skeleton, and a Setup dialog box that writes to a <>.ini file.

Not only is this a useful tool for quickly prototyping simple Windows applications, but a source of knowledge about how applications are coded.

Delivered with Source.


3.1
Microsoft Windows 3.0/3.1

ClickBar and ClickDlg are fully compatible with Windows 3.0 and 3.1.