DosBar V1.41 - A Toolbar for DOS-Windows Copyright 1993,94 by Andreas Furrer ============================================================================ DosBar adds a toolbar to any DOS window. With this toolbar you have an easy access to the mark, copy, paste and other functions which will normally only be available from the system menu of a DOS window. DosBar requires Windows 3.1 Installation ============ The installation of DosBar is very easy: 1) Copy DOSBAR.EXE and DOSBARH.DLL to any (but the same) directory. 2) Create a new item for DOSBAR.EXE in your startup group. 3) Restart Windows. The next time you open a DOS application in a window you will see a toolbar at the top of the window. If you press any button of the toolbar you will see a short description of the command beside the toolbar. Configuration ============= If you click on the icon of DosBar, you will see two additional menu entries in the system menu: - Configuration - About If you choose Configuration you will get the configuration dialog of DosBar. In this dialog you can customize the toolbar and set some other options. You can also open the configuration dialog with the button 'Dosbar configuration' of the toolbar. For the customization of the commands of the toolbar you see two listboxes and three buttons: The left listbox shows the commands that are NOT in the toolbox and the right listbox shows the commands of the toolbar. With the 'Append' button you add the selected command of the left list to the end of the right. The 'Insert' button will add the selected command of the left listbox above the selected command of the right listbox and the 'Delete' button will delete the selected entry of the right listbox. The special entry 'Space' will add a distance between the buttons. You can add as many 'Spaces' you like. Below the listboxes you will see a sample toolbar. The toolbar is updated everytime you change the settings. If you click on a button of this toolbar the corresponding command will be selected in the right listbox. The size of the toolbar can be set to very small, small, normal, big and very big. You can also have coloured buttons. With the option 'Draw buttons in caption' you can setup DosBar to draw the buttons in the caption of the DOS window. So the toolbar will take away no more space. The size of the buttons is adjusted to the size of the caption. It can't be changed. With the checkbox 'Show short description of commands' you can choose if you want to see a short description of the commands or not. The description will be displayed beside the buttons. You can adjust the position of the description by adding 'Spaces' at the end of the toolbar. You can't see the descriptions if the buttons are drawn in the caption of the window. If you use the 'Close window button' to close the window and you have set the PIF file of your application to close the DOS application when exiting Windows, you are normally asked if you want to close the application. If you check the checkbox 'Command close window: close immediately' you will not see this dialog and the application is closed immediately after you have pushed the button. (For informations about PIF files please look into your Windows documentation.) The checkbox 'Show icon' lets you choose if you want to see the icon for DosBar or if it should run invisible. If it runs invisible, it will become visible if you start DosBar a second time or if you switch to DosBar with a taskmanager, such as FTaskman - a very nice and FREE task manager replacement -, that lets you see hidden windows. If you are copying text out of a DOS window, a CR/LF will be added at the end of the copied text. This could be very annoying if you are copying only a word or a part of a line. With the options 'Delete last CR/LF when copying' you can choose if and when DosBar should delete the last CR/LF: - never: The last CR/LF is never deleted - not when copying more than one line: The last CR/LF is not deleted if you are copying more than one line out of the DOS window - everytime: The last CR/LF is always deleted. Closing DosBar ============== DosBar can be closed with the Close command of its system menu (if the DosBar icon is visible - if not: just start DosBar a second time) or by a task manager that lets you see hidden windows. But note: you can't close DosBar if you have any DOS application running. If you want to close DosBar you have first to close ALL DOS applications. Commands of DOSBAR ================== - Mark, Copy, Paste, Scroll, Configuration, Change font, Close window, Minimize window, Maximize window, Switch to: These commands act like their equivalents in the system menu of the DOS window. (For informations about these commands please consult the documentation of Windows.) - Reduce font/enlarge font With this command you can reduce or enlarge the font of the DOS window. If you have already set the smallest or largest font, nothing will happen. - Full screen This command lets you switch the DOS window to the full-screen mode. - Dosbar configuration With this command you will see the configuration dialog of DosBar. Language ======== During startup DosBar tries to detect if your Windows is configured for German language or not. If it senses it, DosBar will use German language and if not DosBar uses English language. If you want to ignore the default language you can add the following parameters to the call of DosBar: DOSBAR.EXE /D : German language DOSBAR.EXE /E : Englisch language Freeware-Note ============= You can use and distribute DosBar free, as long as the following files are not changed and you distribute all files together - dosbar.txt - dosbar.exe - dosbarh.dll I am programming DosBar for fun, and not to make any profit. That's why DosBar is free and you don't have to pay more or less high registration charges. I think it is a bad habit, that more and more program authors want to have money even for the smallest program. For informations about my other FREE Windows tools see the file SOFTWARE.TXT (or the German version SOFTWARE.TXG). Long live the Freeware! If you have problems, comments, suggestions or you detect one error, please E-Mail to s_furrer@ira.uka.de (c) 1993,94 by Andreas Furrer Version history =============== 1.41: - Fixed a problem with the 'Delete CR/LF' radio boxes of the configuration dialog. - Corrected the documentation 1.40: - Now you can also have the toolbar in the caption of the DOS window. - Added new commands to enlarge or reduce the font of the DOS window. - Added an option to remove the last CR/LF if text is copied out of the DOS window. 1.31: - Now you will see the short description of the command of a button if you move the mouse over the button face (you don't need to press the button to see the description). - Pressing a disabled button will now cause a message beep. 1.30: - Added a switch to close DOS windows quicker. - Now you can have five different toolbar sizes and the buttons can be coloured. 1.20: - Added new commands: Switch to and DosBar Configuration - Now you will see a sample toolbar in the configuration dialog so you see immediately your changes. - Added german language support. - Changed the button drawing routine so a button will now not overpaint the frame of the window if the window is to small for seeing all buttons. - Changed the internal representation of the toolbar bitmaps. - Fixed a bug that the configuration and about dialogs weren't children of the program. 1.10: - Added a configuration dialog for changing the toolbar and set options. - Added the display of a short description of the button command. - Added new commands: Full screen, Close window, Minimize window and Maximize window. 1.01: - There was a problem when DosBar was closed by some task managers and a DOS application was running. Now you can't close DosBar when any DOS application is running. 1.00: - First version of DosBar.