ToolbarStudio Quick Overview

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Contents 1 Toolbar Studio - Quick Overview 1.1 Toolbar Elements 1.2 Commands 1.3 Macros 1.4 Plug-Ins 2 Sample

Toolbar Studio - Quick Overview

With ToolbarStudio you can build your own Dynamic IE & Firefox Toolbars in minutes thanks to intuitive "What you see is What you Get" interface.

Moreover with the rich customization possiblities provided by the platform you can create Advanced web/desktop integration toolbars that can store login information and user data, interact with webpages via Javascript interface, show your contents in mini browser windows, highligh and annotate in webpages surfed, communicate with your server and interactively change the appearance, run any other programs.

While adding Toolbar elements in Structure area you will instantly see them in Preview Area from where you may test URL links right in the Web Browser of ToolbarStudio.

From the Tools menu you can make .Exe/Web installers for IE and Firefox browsers. There is also an option to make single installer for both.

Toolbar Elements

- text label
- button
- menu
- menu items
- separator (fixed/moving)
- search box/ drop-down list
- checkbox
- radio button
- space 
- edit box
- password box
- banner 
- bubble 
- dynamic XML
- custom XML
- custom Javascript 

Commands

You may assign the following Commands to buttons/menu items as :

- Search
- URL redirection
- Switch Search Engine
- Highlight Search Keywords
- Set Home Page
- Launch Script
- Run external program
- Open local files in modal browser windows
- Generate Options page for toolbar customization , etc...   

Macros

From Insert menu you will be able to pass the following Macros available in the toolbar that can be substituted into the URL used for BANNER, BUBBLE and INCLUDE_XML tags. These substitutions can also be put into any URL redirection assigned to a button/menu item) :

- %user_name, 
- %user_pass
- %AffiliateID, 
- %combo
- %edit
- %Checkbox1
- toolbar variables like %Var1...%Var10 
- etc...

Plug-Ins

From Plugins menu you will be able to add :

- RSS reader
- E-mail checker
- Login Manager
- Alert
- Auto-Fill 
- Web filter
- Weather On-Line 
- Other Plugins (there are about 25 Plug-ins in ToolbarStudio) 

Sample

Sample #1 - How To Make Google Search in the toolbar

1) add search box element
2) add a button - in Attributes area find Command list and choose 'Search'
3) in 'Target URL' field enter the following :
 http://www.google.com/search?q=%combo
where combo is the name of your seach box 
4) type any keyword in your search box and just press the button. 
5) you may assign the same command for search box itself so pressing 'Enter' will 
also trigger search.

Sample #2 - What else you can do

- you may search your own search engine, just use %combo instead of actual keywords 
in your URL.
- you may define Caption and Icon for buttons in Attributes area. 
- you can create drop-down list by choosing Non-editable Type for search box, after 
that you can add the pre-defined values 
- You can also create menus and assign "URL Redirection" command for menu items to 
open sites you need. 
- You may send POST data on your server in hidden mode - just choose 'Search' 
 command  and 'Post Data' option in 'New Window' field. 
- You can run Javascript from a button of toolbar, just add "Custom javascript" 
 element, define your script in Edit area and assign 'Launch Script' command to 
 any button/menu item