ToolbarDesigner description
ToolbarDesigner - Easy-to-use Explorer toolbar making software

With ToolbarDesigner you can create own Internet Explorer toolbar.

Custom IE toolbar is a great way to promote website, provide visitors with extra options for searching and online/offline browsing, simplify navigation and drive more traffic. After astounding success of Google and Alexa toolbars, thousands of companies are starting to follow their lead by offering their visitors own custom toolbars for Internet Explorer.

Toolbar Designer is the first freeware toolbar-making tool that allows any person without programming experience to create own toolbars. With Toolbar Designer, any toolbar can be created by using simple “point-and-click” and “drag’n’drop” techniques.

The program comes with a comprehensive collection of buttons, boxes (search, password, etc), drop-down menus and other toolbar elements.

Custom images and elements can be inserted, too. Average toolbar is created in just 10 minutes.
For advanced users, Toolbar Designer offers Visual Basic and JScript scripting support. Another great feature is the auto-updating option that replaces old toolbars with new ones automatically.

This is an essential feature, since most websites get updated/modified several times a year. Toolbars created with this software work very fast and take very little space – 400K on average! And they do not require any resource files. For users’ convenience, any toolbar created with this application can be uninstalled directly from the browser.

Toolbar Designer is a freeware, distributed electronically over the Internet. For an additional fee, ToolbarDesign Studio can compile a complete toolbar distribution package (yourtoolbarsetup.exe, yourtoolbar.cab, yourtoolbar.dll, installer script and install.html for direct installation from the site), develop custom toolbars and do custom programming.

Here are some key features of "ToolbarDesigner":

· No resource files are needed
· Automatic update of toolbar and all media files
· Automatic detection of changed files and download from web-server
· Multi-level menu
· TEXT tag - you can create an icon with a static text!
· Multiple COMBO BOXES may be added
· PAGE tag - you can insert HTML page into toolbar!
· .CAB package
· POST request
· Combo box has history and autocomplete features
· You can define several different web engines
· Buttons, large buttons (with different size images), separators, drop-down enus with images and hints for items
· Tooltips for buttons
· Drag-drop into search combo-box
· Chevrons
· Options, About pages
· Open local/web URL in a new/old/modal dialog window
· Highlight words and an incremental find in a html page (like in the Google oolbar)
· Uninstall the ToolBar directly from the web browser
· Run-time hiding, disabling of buttons, changing combo-box size and other options in options page
· Change image on mouse over
· Automatically open IE and visualize the toolbar during dll registration
· Single / Split / None types for Buttons in the main menu
· You can use current URL, domain, toolbar_id and some other variables in web url and posting data
· hot_img attribute in MENU tag - all icons can be changed on the mouse over event
· Some commands are replaced with a new SPECIAL command type
· The Combo box includes predefined values
· You can set/get attributes for the toolbar from javascript with put_NID, put_Pass, get_ver
· Uninstall removes ALL Downloaded files
· Show/Hide toolbar from toolbar's menu
· TAB key can toogle between combo boxes
· Hot images can included into multi-level menus
· Load images from an external DLL file
· Choice of several different fonts
· An update can be "run" from the setup program
· You can use simple standard menu (without images)
· You can check if user changed local files on his computer
· Change text colour into blue on over mouse event
· Execute an external program
· TAB now jump focus from Standart address bar to first combo box, next combo box,.., back to address bar
· Shift key also works
· Now you can insert not only combo boxes but also edit control


Limitations:

· Toolbars created with Toolbar Designer are for personal or internal usage only. If you plan to resell toolbars created with Toolbar Designer you must pay license fee ($50 per each toolbar) to Toolbar Designer Software.