Neowin Toolbar?

[samo123_uk]

What happened to the neowin toolbar I heard about a couple of weeks ago.

Is it being made?

how's the development going?

[Vader]

Anormal: Yep non working at the moment as I am still working on them :)

timdorr: Basicly I'm working from an example toolbar that I programmed for test at work but if you want I can email you the basic code (it only works in delphi :D).

Get frustrated m8 I work with a bunch of PC techs :evil: :evil:

If you need info about creating the toolbars you can find a lot of info on the Microsoft MSDN web site.

BeeJay: Thanks for posting the link for me (Couldn't be bothered at 2 in the morning :))

Replies to ideas:

1. Sorry wont remove the text labels for the buttons (Looks crap) but can shorten them a bit.

2. I can get rid of the "Neowin.net" Label on the left but then again it looks a bit crap so replace with a logo?? so something else.

3. Link to Neowin news page has been added - Thanks.

4. I will try to do a "Customize" thing but no promises but it may be a seperate program to run as trying to hook into the IE menus is a pain - Let me know.

5. Look has changed again due to requests.

Cheers

[Sleeper Veteran]

this is the original thread which was created awhile back about people wanting a neowin toolbar. https://www.neowin.net/bboard/showthread.ph...=Neowin+Toolbar

It has some links in it to the msdn articles which tell you how to create a toolbar for IE.

I really hope this is of some help to u's as i would really really like to see a neowin toolbar....

:D

[Thekk]

Hi Vader,

That toolbar looks very cool. One thing though: you said that you had included the link to the news page, but when I use the setup.exe from one of your posts before, it doesn't show up..

Again I appreciate your efforts,

Thekk

[Vader]

Hi,

I'm tring to get the code for posting and replying working first then I'll release it again.

Cheers

[Mark Otto]

Originally posted by Thekk

Hi Vader,

That toolbar looks very cool. One thing though: you said that you had included the link to the news page, but when I use the setup.exe from one of your posts before, it doesn't show up..

Again I appreciate your efforts,

Thekk

did u close out of IE and then go to View > Toolbars > Neowin.net?

and then unlock the toolbars from View > Toolbars > Lock Toolbars in necessary

is that waht u were talkin about?

[Vader]

A new beta version should be uploaded shortly as I'm finishing up testing the Post A Reply button which seems to work :D

Changes since the last version:

1. New visual style (Had complains about the last one :( )

2. Now has a Neowin News button.

3. New Thead works to a degree(May act screwie so let me know what you did for this to happen).

4. Post a Reply seems to be working but until it gets a hammering I wont know for certain.

5. Still no Search query :(

Do people want to keep the Neowin.Net text on the left or not??

Cheers.

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

have an options dialog for things like that :D

[CaPeRKiNG77]

I seem to have found a bug (it's repeated numerous times). When I'm browsing a site other than Neowin and it tries to open a new window, I get an error dialog with the word "Sysfader" as the first word of the title, then closes IE. Anyone else getting this?

[edit]

BTW, this only happens when the Neowin toolbar is active. When I disable it, I never get the error.

[/edit]

PiMPiN

[Mark Otto]

Originally posted by Vader

A new beta version should be uploaded shortly as I'm finishing up testing the Post A Reply button which seems to work :D

Changes since the last version:

1. New visual style (Had complains about the last one :( )

2. Now has a Neowin News button.

3. New Thead works to a degree(May act screwie so let me know what you did for this to happen).

4. Post a Reply seems to be working but until it gets a hammering I wont know for certain.

5. Still no Search query :(

Do people want to keep the Neowin.Net text on the left or not??

Cheers.

i dont really care bout the text on the left but if people want it gone, i think its up to u

[Vader]

PiMPiN: The only real bug I've not been able too track down yet.

What version of windows and Ie are you running and whats the version of the toolbar do you have??

I know this one is going to be a pain in the rear end as the thing is so far installed on over 300 boxes and only 6 reports so far :(

Cheers.

[CaPeRKiNG77]

XP Pro, IE6, beta .22

I was getting the error on both versions of the toolbar though.

I'm also working on a function or two to help you with your search problem.

Incidently, anyone else who gets this error running CursorXP or any other skinning engine other than default XP styles by any chance? I noticed that when I did get the error, my mouse pointer wnet back to its default. Could be a conflict? Picture of the error provided.

PiMPiN

[Thekk]

I've found another flaw. When I try to visit the 2nd page of a neowin forum with the toolbar enabled, I get an error. When I try to visit it without the toolbar, everything works fine.

I'm using IE6 on Win2K and tried to visit the second page of the main forum.

Greetings,

Thekk

[Vader]

Ok I can't replicate this at the moment so how do I get it to do this??

Has it happened constantly??

Which version are you using?

I may know where some of the "features" are coming from and I am recoding at the moment so if you could try this version for me please

Edit:: Ok have uploaded the new version of this so can people give it a go and report any problems with it

get it from neowin.exe

Cheers.

[Vader]

hmmm I can take it the ne wversion seems to be working for everybody then as its been avalible for a few hours and no emails or pms :p

Ok then a question for the bods that read this :- How many are using this thing.

Cheers.

Vader

[Steven P. Administrators]

Vader, mail me.. I want to post this on the software section.. it rox man.. I need to know if a) Im allowed to and B) your input on the post..

Mail me a descriptive post [email protected] and I'll put it up first thing in the morning

Good work man

[Rusty.Metal]

heres a idea uhh like makea tool bar and we pick what fourm we want to see like uhh i want to see new things for the web programing and i guess the toolbar u guys useing only works with general... understand?

[CaPeRKiNG77]

I'm using the newest one and so far no bugs found. Congrats! I'm also almost finished of a plugin function to search the forums, albeit there's no options (it just searches all the forums for the entered query), but it's just about done. I've got everything working in a temp Toolbar for the search, the only thing that is limiting it right now is the fact that vBulletin generates a "Search ID" that I can't duplicate. It seems to work fine thus far though using one set number, although I don't know if there will be any drawbacks for this. Gonna check with JelSoft and see.

[eangulus]

Is this 100% complete freeware. Like is the source available so others may improve it to have more features or something?

[Steven P. Administrators]

Yea Im thinking of an option to turn off the title (saves space)

overal neat little app man congrats..

[Vader]

aaronsam: Sorry m8 don't understand.

eangulus: Yep it will freeware with source code for Delphi 6 only.

Neobond: Will pm within the next hour or so with the details :D Thanks

Now going to try and do a options thing so you can turn the title off ;)

Cheero

[Rusty.Metal]

like uhh one with news and fourms and the links and stuff that that ones got right now (first page i think) but like u pick a forum (me i pick Web Programing fourm on here) and like up there it says something when theres a new post... understand yet?

[TommyTourettes]

I think the toolbar is great, the only thing that doesn't work for me is the "New Thread" button. It's always greyed out no matter where I am on Neowin. I've also found that I can't find a "New Thread" link on any forum to make a a new thread, so the only way I can seem to make one is to subscribe to the forum, then click "New Thread" in the User CP. Not sure if that's normal or not... any help would be appreciated. Very handy tool, it will stay permanently on my IE toolbar :)

Edit: Well I figured out that "AdPurger" was filtering out the "New Thread" button on the web page, so that part is figured out at least. Even with AdPurger disabled though the "New Thread" button in the toolbar doesn't seem to work.

[CaPeRKiNG77]

I understand what aaronsam means. Right now the "Forums" button only goes to the main forum listing, and he would like it to go to a specific forum, in his case, the Web Programming forum.

This wouldn't be hard to implement at all I believe. A simple drop down menu like the one for the main page with all of the different forums listed, or, an option for the user to select the forum they wish themselves. The drop Menu might get large, with 23 sub-forums here, so maybe the option to select your own would be best. Here's another idea ....

Have in the options (whenever you get around to it Vader, no rush, hehe), a listing of all 23 forums here at Neowin, and the ones the user would like to appear in the drop menu they can select. Once selected, the forums then appear in a drop menu under the "Forums" button. Anyone else have any ideas on implementing something like this?

PiMPiN

[Vinh]

ahh not to bad of an ideal, this could come handy after all. :)

[Vader]

aaronsam & PiMPiN: Ok if thats it then it wont be a problem to deal with.

Zombivac: Don't worry, I had to rewrite a bit of code so I disabled it until I got it to a state I was happy with :D

Neobond: I've had a bit of a re-jig and the caption has now gone (Been replace with somethnig a little better)

Cheers