Anyone know of a "button bar" toolkit?

[Labviewguru]

I know it goes against everything I think about Microsoft, but I am looking for a button bar similar to those in MS API. As long as there is a standard, I may as well use it.

For those who are unaware of what I speak, a button bar is a set of icon/text/icon&text buttons that appear at the top of some applications (most these days). I have Eudora, which has a great example of the button bar, but also, Power Point, Exel, and other MS apps have them too. I want to be able to easily create them in LabVIEW.

[wiebe@CARYA]

Labviewguru,

I've done a presentation a few weeks ago, and it's online. It has an example
of the a "toolbar" and "coolbar" (coolbar is when the icons change when the
mouse hovers above them...).

It's just an example, one simple, and one with menus that come out of the
buttons (like the 'New' button in IE).With some imagination dynamic menus
and other stuff can be implemented (easily..).

It's at the bottom of:

http://www.air.nl/info/ww.html

(Please don't mind the picture, not one of the best pictures of me!) The
text at the site is dutch, but the presentation is in english. It covers
several COM objects, including the buttons.

Also note that the VI's are ment to illustrate the technique. The use of Sub
VI's is recommended, but avoided to clearify t
he technique.

Have fun,

Wiebe.


"Labviewguru" wrote in message
news:506500000008000000394F0000-1023576873000@exchange.ni.com...
> I know it goes against everything I think about Microsoft, but I am
> looking for a button bar similar to those in MS API. As long as there
> is a standard, I may as well use it.
>
> For those who are unaware of what I speak, a button bar is a set of
> icon/text/icon&text buttons that appear at the top of some
> applications (most these days). I have Eudora, which has a great
> example of the button bar, but also, Power Point, Exel, and other MS
> apps have them too. I want to be able to easily create them in
> LabVIEW.