                      STBAR 2.1 INFORMATION
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Overview
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STBAR.VBX is a runtime AND demo version of a status bar custom control for
Visual Basic. I think, the concept of combining demo and runtime versions is
new, so I will try to explain:

STBAR.VBX serves a

- as a runtime version, i. e. it runs any application developed with the
  FULL version (for availabilty of full version and other controls feel free
  to contact me via CompuServe mail).

- as a (fully functional) demo version in design mode. The restriction here is,
  that applications (EXE files) developed with the demo version will not
  display a status bar at runtime (ONLY WITH THE FULL VERSION, WHICH SHOULD NOT
  BE GIVEN AWAY). To 'convert' an application from 'demo' to 'full' mode, simply
  load it with the full version and rebuild the EXE file.

I would like to hear any comments on this concept.


Description
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see the file STBAR.WRI for an explanation of the properties and events.

This is version 2.1 of STBAR.VBX. Here is some information for those of you,
who had download verion 1.x:

Version 1.x fired the MenuSelect event with the Tag property as one paramter.
I liked this feature very much, but I had to use a lot of undocumented features
(special messages, menu id's, message order, ...) to implement this. Also there
were some problems with Win 3.0 and VB2 crashed with the control. So I decided
to change the paramter to be the menu's caption. There is one brand new event
(Selected Tag), which offers the old functionality for VB2. It also uses 
undocumented features, but it is so useful, that I've added it (see the 
MHCTL file in the MS BASIC forum for more information). The code check for
VB version, so it will run only for VB2 and you may decide, if you want to 
use it.

Together with some sample code (VB2), I've also added STBAR.INI. This can be
used to 'internationalize' the indicator captions (the example is for Germany).
This file has to be placed in the windows directory.


Fore more information and any comment, please send me a message via CompuServe



Bernd Beekes
User ID: 100031,2063


Full version:	$ 50,-- w/o source
		$ 85,-- with source


Acknowledgement:

This control was completely written by me, but is based on a control written by
Ed Staffin, who had the idea of composing the status bar out of multiple control
instances. You can find an earlier version of him in the MS BASIC forum.

