Toolbar Hints & Tips

How about sharing your toolbar hints and tips with all of us? Here's one to start, with more as I find/remember them

Web pages in toolbars
Copy the following address:
javascript:window.location.replace("http://www.your-url.com")

1 Right-click on your taskbar
2 From the context menu choose "Toolbars"
3 From the sub-menu choose "New Toolbar"
4 On the "New Toolbar" window, paste the address you copied above into the folder field:

5 Click OK

Of course, you'd replace http://www.your-url.com with the URL of your own choice!

I know this works in XP, but can anyone confirm what other Windows platforms it works on?

Perhaps I am incorrectly following your instructions.

Firstly I do not exactly understand the purpose of this procedure. What are web pages in toolbars?

Secondly if I follow your step by step instructions I receive this error message



Can you be more clear in your procedure. Thank you

What version of Windows are you using? It may not work on your version!

I note that the address in the error dialog is incorrect as there is no semi-colon ":" between javascript & window, and no double-quotes around the URL. If you cut and paste the following line into the New Toolbar dialog, it may work:

javascript:window.location.replace("http://www.interphysical.com")

To see how it works, here's a screenshot of my desktop showing a toolbar with Google embedded in it, along with some TLB plugins:

Click to get a full-size version!

The toolbar is docked to the left-hand side of the screen, and has auto-hide set.

How can one add plugins to this new bar?

Right-clicking on the Titlebar yields this result -

It seems there is no ability to click on "New" to add any plugins.

I stumbled across another website that explains how to do this earlier today and have been fiddling with it. I'm creating custom (local) web pages using javascript, forms, links to executables on my computer (like shortcuts), and I'm sure I can come up with some other interesting things to use. This has a few notable advantages over using TLB plugins (maybe Yuri can take some notes ). First, things are much easier to skin and get them to "look right". This is because an HTML toolbar takes up the whole height of the toolbar, giving you a blank canvas and precise control over placement using CSS stylesheets. Second, the web pages you create can be just about anything. Here's a few examples I can think of, and I'm really excited to explore more.

Clock (TLBClock plugin has a few limitations when it comes to skinning)
mark76uk's tick box
Comic strip viewer
A calendar (hmm.. maybe even linked to Outlook's calendar)
WinAmp control (again, avoiding some skin limitations)
Notepad/Scratch pad/Run box/Search bar
Multistate/Animated shortcut icons
Ticker (possibly)
Task switcher ( ! )
... and the list goes on and on ...

The best part is that all of this is easily skinnable using standard HTML and CSS and EXTREMELY flexible. Take a look at this page and see if your head doesn't hurt after just a little while

I sense that this thread will be getting HUGE with exmples and questions.

It seems there is no ability to click on "New" to add any plugins.

That's because this is an HTML toolbar, not a TLB toolbar. You can dock TLB toolbars next to this HTML bar just like you can with the task switch bar or quicklaunch.

QSection Create another empty toolbar and move it around so that it's where you want it (I stacked mine!). You can't add any more plugins to the HTML one as it is a standard windows toolbar. Prehaps Yuri will add this functionality in at some stage?

QSection Create another empty toolbar and move it around so that it's where you want it (I stacked mine!). You can't add any more plugins to the HTML one as it is a standard windows toolbar.

How does one create an empty toolbar? It is not too intuitive for us!

Right click an existing toolbar, and select New Toolbar... and then True Launch Bar....

Hmm... it is interesting. Maybe make this as plugin that show HTML page. Then it is possible place it into menu. What do you think about this plugin?



Edited By Yuri Kobets on Feb. 15 2004 at 20:40

Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, can we have this plugin Mr. Kobets?

I tried it with TLB, but it wouldn't work

Please?

BTW, has anybody told you you're a VERY nice man!

We all here second, third, fourth etc. etc. that motion! etc.

Me too! In fact, I suggested it once

Yeah, that'd be cool! Make sure it supports local web pages, too. OH! And the run Protocol.