OpenLoop

depends on what you're making.

bl00dninja

if you have visual studio you could probably make a toolbar in whatever language in a couple hours. keep us updated...a lot of toolbars suck donkey scrotum. i love the fact that firefox has an integrated google search. start with that. the default IE window that opens when i start up netZero has so many damn toolbars you can't see the fucking screen. (of course i just close it and open firefox).

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Nebula

Now personaly i like to really break things down, see how they work, get the real guts of the program. Thats where a prog. language would come in to make a toolbar. But if you want the easy way out then i would suggest you look into these.

ToolBar

ToolBar Maker

Bar Maker

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DaWei

Don't offer me any of these, if I should ever happen to fire up IE (which I do, for updates only). I just say "no." Other than that, if it burns, I smoke it; if it flows, I drink it; and if it moves I....well, nemmine that part.

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bl00dninja

you're too old for that! :p

but so am i, and i'm only 25.

yeah, toolbars are gay pieces of shit. i would rather have someone from "geek squad" come over to my house and kick me in the nuts every time i logged onto the net than deal with shitty toolbars. don't try to program something that everyone hates...except for THIS one:

www.toolbar.google.com

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bja888

Darn, I wish I noticed this when this was first posted (10-03-2005)
Velissarios may of been intrested in haveing a frameset that appeared to be a toolbar... Thats the kind of cool sh** I like doing. He is proubally gone now though

ZeeMan

A way you might create toolbar would be to simulate a toolbar. A way to do this would be to create a frame containing your "toolbar". You could format it to look how you like and then it would follow you arround the site.
However, you should probably set up your site to kill the frame once you leave the site. You could add a "kill" button to terminate the toolbar once your visitor no longer wants it or if it needed to be used on your site and could not be remove you could probably set it up to detect if it is still on your site and then enable the kill switch later. Another way could be to simply detect if the user leaves your site and then kill the bar right away if it has no other useful purpose.
If you were wanting to detect what page was in the lower (or upper) frame you could probably use code to reference the name of the lower (or upper) frame and search the URL for your sites address. Of course, if your user simply types in a different URL you have no problem.
However, if you want to create permenant toolbar, you are going to have to go with hard-core programming.
I hope this helped.

DaWei

Considering that the original post is 4 months old, I suspect the OP either has a solution or has given up. You aren't WAY late, though, I've seen 3-year old threads revived.

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Ooble

Not here, you haven't. This forum's a year and a half old. :p

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I haven't spent all my time here .

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