Commandbar actions eliminate the need to use the update notification\event to update\change the state and properties of an item that appears multiple places in your menus and toolbars. All that is needed now is a single line of code placed almost anywhere in your application to update all control that contain the same id. For example, if you have a command that appears in both a menu and a toolbar, and a user creates a custom toolbar with the same command, modifying the action for the command will update all occurrences of that item, no matter how many have been defined.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars

This Gallery sample demonstrates how to add a gallery to a toolbar. The Office 2007 style gallery control can be used in and toolbar, ribbon group, or popup menu. The gallery control displays a collection of picture or text items that can be scrolled and displayed in your popup menu, standard toolbar, or ribbon group. For example, a galley can be used to create an Office 2007 font or size popup drop-down menu and popup color selector.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars

This CommandBar Icons sample program will demonstrate how to create a command bar with a menu and two toolbars via code. One toolbar is just the standard toolbar, the other is a toolbar that will control the visual theme. The images for the command bar will cone from an ImageManager control. You will learn how to add images to the ImageManager control. The images in the ImageManager control are use in the command bar. You will learn how to add icons with a normal, hot, and disabled state.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars

The Common Controls sample demonstrates how to add a "custom" control to a toolbar. A custom control can be a date picker, animated gif, slider, option button, etc, you can pretty much add any control to a toolbar. Buttons can be displayed differently is the toolbar is docked vertically or horizontally. The controls in a toolbar can be hidden, displayed normally, or shown as a button when docked vertically.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars, Xtreme Controls

The Customize Dialog sample demonstrates how to display the commandbars customize dialog. You will see how to add a custom tab to the commandbars customization dialog. There will be some menu items that illustrate how to execute other programs such as NotePad and Paint.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars, Xtreme Controls

The Custom Themes sample demonstrates how to create a custom theme for the command bars. Several different custom theme examples are provided that show how to only change the color of the toolbar to changing the actual shape of buttons in the toolbars. One of the menu items illustrates how to create a scrolling menu for menus that will contain more items than can be displayed on the screen. You will also see how to include a combo box as a menu item that is used as a simple search tool. Other features demonstrated include displaying the customize dialog, docking a toolbar to the left and bottom of the application and intelligent menus.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars, Xtreme TaskPanel

The Designer sample simply demonstrates how to load a commandbar that was created with the CommandBars Designer Studio. In this sample a XCB file will be loaded.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars

The Dynamic Popups sample demonstrates several different ways to create a command bar popup dynamically. There are two popup menus that are dynamically created and one will display you Internet Explorer favorites and the other will display the contents of your Desktop. Then there is a toolbar button popup and combo box that will display the content of a list box so they are created dynamically each time they are displayed.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars, Xtreme Controls

The Help Context sample demonstrates how to implement contextual help with the command bars and various other objects in your application. Using help context is a great way to provide help to your users.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars

The Intelligent Menus sample demonstrates how to create "intelligent" menus. An intelligent menu behaves similar to the Windows XP start menu's most recently used feature. You specify which commands in a popup menu have not been used recently and they will not be displayed in the popup menu. Instead an expand button will appear at the bottom of the menu. When the expand button is clicked the entire menu will be displayed. The background color of the recently hidden commands will appear a different color.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars

The List Box sample demonstrates how to use our ControlListBox class as a popup in our toolbars. Codejock's list box is similar to that seen in MS Word. In the sample it is displayed as an "undo" and "redo" popup button. If you type some text in the client area you will see that the list box is populated with action you can undo and redo.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars

The Dialog sample demonstrates how to add a commandbar to a dialog application. You need to use the OnKickIdle method for the command bars to receive UI update messages, clicks, etc.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars, Xtreme Controls

The MDI Menus sample demonstrates how to hide\show menu items based on which type of View Document is currently active. The sample has three different View Document types you can choose from. If you load one of each type you will see some menu items and buttons hidden and\or displayed based on which View is active.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars

The MSDI Sample demonstrates how to create a multiple single document application. Each Frame is located in it's own thread. If you click the new button you will see the new document will be opened in it's own window.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars

The Notifications sample demonstrates using the CREATECOMMANDBAR, CREATECONTROL, INITCOMMANDSPOPUP, and AFTERCREATECONTROL commandbars notifications. CREATECOMMANDBAR is used to create a tear of popup of the Edit menu, REATECONTROL is used to add attributes to some buttons, INITCOMMANDSPOPUP is used to dynamically create a popup menu, and AFTERCREATECONTROL is used for control verification.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars

The ReBar sample demonstrates how to add ReBars to your commandbars. ReBars are similar to commandbars except they can not be floated and they can not be docked anywhere but the top of the application.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars

The Scribble sample demonstrates how to create commandbars that support different languages. In the sample you can select from English, German, Japanese, Arabic, and Russian. The CommandBars comes with a language dll resource file for each of the 32 languages supported. The dll files come with a translated string for all strings that can not be changed by the developer, for example, the customization dialog.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars

The smart layout sample demonstrates how to enable a toolbar to have a "smart" layout. Smart layout allows each item to have multiple image sizes. The largest images will be displayed when enough room is available and automatically display the smaller icons when space is tight. Not only are images swapped when the application is resized, but the items will be re-arranged so that they are always visible in the toolbar. When toolbar space is abundant, large images with item captions are displayed, if space is limited, then only small icons with no captions are displayed.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars

The StatusBar sample demonstrates how to use Codjock's Status Bar control. You will see how to add an animated gif, progress bar, icons, and edit control to the status bar. Each button in the toolbar will have some description text that is displayed in the status bar.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars

The Tabbed Toolbar sample demonstrates how to add a tabbed toolbar to your command bars. Tabbed toolbars eliminate the need for numerous toolbars to be crowded at the top of your application. Switching between toolbar categories is similar to a TabControl, you can now access all of your toolbar categories simply by clicking on its tab.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars

The TearOff Popups sample demonstrates how to create tear-off popups for popup menus. A tear-off popup is a popup menu that can be "torn" off and displayed as a separate commandbar. These commandbars can be used and docked like any other commandbar.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars

The ToolTip Context sample demonstrates how to change the style of the tooltip displayed for the commandbars and tab workspace. Tooltips can be displayed as balloons, office style, or RTF style. You will see how to display shortcut keys in tooltips as well as how to change the color of tooltips.

Sample Uses:
Xtreme Commandbars