02-20-2005, 04:08 PM -
You can do what you are talking about easily with Windows PowerPro:
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This program lets you create any number of button-bars, put them wherever you like on the screen, and assign a wide range of system functions to them.
For example if you wanted to make a button which does Copy:
1. Make a new button-bar in PowerPro (go to Command Lists, New List, give it a name, and check "Auto show as bar")
2. Click Properties and set Position to Left Caption (or whatever you prefer) and OK
3. Make a new button (click Add After) and give it a name (say "CopyIt"), you can also use icons
4. For the button's Left command choose *Clip, for clip action choose Copy, hit OK a couple times
Now doubleclick to highlight some text in any application and click your CopyIt button, voila.
PowerPro is Windows on steroids ... a lot of steroids. It's quite possible you could reproduce your entire TLB setup using PowerPro (tho it would be a real pain). I use it mostly for fancy keyboard macros, you can set up all kinds of macros and have hotkeys which react in specific applications, etc. Makes it easy to add that missing feature to a given program.
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This program lets you create any number of button-bars, put them wherever you like on the screen, and assign a wide range of system functions to them.
For example if you wanted to make a button which does Copy:
1. Make a new button-bar in PowerPro (go to Command Lists, New List, give it a name, and check "Auto show as bar")
2. Click Properties and set Position to Left Caption (or whatever you prefer) and OK
3. Make a new button (click Add After) and give it a name (say "CopyIt"), you can also use icons
4. For the button's Left command choose *Clip, for clip action choose Copy, hit OK a couple times
Now doubleclick to highlight some text in any application and click your CopyIt button, voila.
PowerPro is Windows on steroids ... a lot of steroids. It's quite possible you could reproduce your entire TLB setup using PowerPro (tho it would be a real pain). I use it mostly for fancy keyboard macros, you can set up all kinds of macros and have hotkeys which react in specific applications, etc. Makes it easy to add that missing feature to a given program.
Joel Thornton