MS Office-Bar style form 1

[sifitz]

I am trying to get a form to be displayed like a Microsoft Office toolbar: a moveable toolbar that fits perfectly into the screen. It also makes other applications fit around it when they are maximised. These are the two features that I am looking for but can't figure out.

Does anybody know how to do this (or even something similar)?

Thanks,

Si Fitz

 

[Kurtie]

Look at this
URL:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/downloads/download.asp?ID=034

or

http://www.vbcode.com

Kurtie

 

[sifitz]

Thanks for the help but the msdn link didn't work. I tried looking around and also at the vbcode site but couldn't find anything that seemed to help.

Is there anything else that anybody knows about?

Thanks

Si Fitz

 

[Kurtie]

sorry about that, but did you look at the samples of code on the msdn site ?
Kurtie

 

[strongm]

Sounds to me as if what you are asking about is an AppBar (actually a poorly documented feature of the Shell). There's a pretty good article about them here:

http://www.microsoft.com/msj/defaulttop.asp?page=/msj/archive/s274.htm

However, the example code is in C++. Fortunately someone has already done the hard work of converting it into VB, which you will find here:

http://www.allapi.net/php/redirect/redirect.php?action=download&id=21