DosBar V1.42 - A Toolbar for DOS-Windows Copyright 1993-95 by Andreas Furrer =============================================================================== DosBar adds a toolbar to any DOS window. The toolbar gives you easy access to the mark, copy, paste, and other functions that are normally available only 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 the STARTUP group. 3) Restart Windows. The next time you open a DOS application in a window or shrink a full-screen DOS application to a window by +, you will see a toolbar at the top of the window. If you press any button on the toolbar you will see a short description of the command beside the toolbar. Configuration ============= If you click on the DosBar icon, 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 2 listboxes and 3 buttons: The left listbox shows the commands that are NOT in the toolbox and the right listbox shows the commands currently assigned to the toolbar. With the 'Append' button you can add the selected command from the left listbox to the END of the list on the right. The 'Insert' button will insert the selected command from the left listbox ABOVE the selected command in the right listbox and the 'Delete' button will delete the selected entry of the right listbox. The special entry 'Space' will add space between the buttons. You can add as many 'Spaces' as 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 colored buttons. With the option 'Draw buttons in caption' you can configure DosBar to draw the buttons in the caption of the DOS window. With this option enabled the toolbar will occupy no additional space. The size of the buttons is adjusted to the size of the caption and 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 consult the Windows documentation.) The checkbox 'Show icon' lets you choose if you want to see the icon for DosBar or if the program should run invisibly. If it runs invisibly, 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 from a DOS window, a CR/LF will be added at the end of the copied text. This can 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 from the DOS window - always: 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 a DOS application running. If you want to close DosBar you must first to close ALL DOS applications. DOSBAR Commands =============== - 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 for 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 can access the configuration dialog of DosBar. Language ======== During startup DosBar tries to detect if Windows is configured for the German language. If it detects that it is, DosBar will use the German language and if not, DosBar uses English. If you want to ignore the default language you can add the following parameters to the DosBar call: DOSBAR.EXE /D : German language DOSBAR.EXE /E : English language Freeware-Note ============= You can use and distribute DosBar freely, as long as the following files are not changed and you distribute all the files together: - DOSBAR.TXT - DOSBAR.EXE - DOSBARH.DLL I wrote DosBar for fun, not for profit. That's why DosBar is free and you don't have to pay a registration fee. I think it is a bad habit that more and more program authors want to have money for even the smallest program. For informations about my other FREE Windows tools see the file SOFTWARE.TXT (or the German version SOFTWARE.TXG). Long live Freeware! If you have problems, comments, suggestions or you detect a bug, please send E-Mail to s_furrer@ira.uka.de (c) 1993-95 by Andreas Furrer Version history =============== 1.42: - Fixed the bug that clicking in the background of the toolbar was not bringing the DOS window in front. - Fixed a bug that the description of the commands was not cleared if the mouse moved from a button to the background of the toolbar. - Corrected the documentation. 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 from the DOS window. 1.31: - You will now see a short description of the command for 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 beep. 1.30: - Added a switch to close DOS windows more quickly. - Now you can have five different toolbar sizes and the buttons can be colored. 1.20: - Added new commands: "Switch to" and "DosBar Configuration". - You will now see a sample toolbar in the configuration dialog so you see the changes immediately. - 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 too small to display all the buttons. - Changed the internal representation of the toolbar bitmaps. - Fixed a bug that caused the "configuration" and "about" dialogs to not be 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.