This is another mod, based on the source from an earliers version of BBClean (SVN rev 88, release approximately 25 December 2007). This mod will support both the standard 32-bit versions of windows (just like everyone else) as well as 64-bit version (The code is the same as I used here).

Give it a try if any of the features below look interesting to you. Please let me know if there are any problems or there is something missing not mentioned below.

Features:

• New system bar plugin (boxBar) which support both vertical and horizontal
• Balloon tooltips are finally working again
• Vista specific :
  
  • Windows background will be used if set (no more black screen)
  • Welcome screen will dissapear quickly
  • Support for the extra tray icons (Volume, Networkd). Basic support is available if you use bbLeanBar, complete support is inlcuded in boxBar (mousover displays)
  • Supports the new alt-tab features (including Flip-3D). An option will be added later to disable them if wanted
  • Working Volume slider and bro@ms

Known Problems

• boxBar config menu is very basic, and only supports setting size and changing from vertical to horizontal.

For 32-bit windows get boxCore-package-0.2.1-x86.zip.
For 64-bit windows get boxCore-package-0.2.1-x64.zip.

See the files page for older releases.
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Some boxBar documentation http://boxcore.berlios.de/docs/boxBar.xml

Downloads of 0.1.2 to date:
32 bit : 155
64 bit : 62

Wow, you fixed all the Vista stuff? You sir, are my hero.

Well, we still need support for being able to set the volume from the shell. It's easy if you are using the latest MS compiler, but with Mingw I'll need to get hold of a definition for the COM interface first. Hopefully we can get this done.

You mean to facilitate the menu volume bar? Never really saw the need for that feature.

Vertical toolbar eh? Well, I guess I can only blame myself for still not releasing xoblite bb4...
(FYI click the small "icon" in the lower right corner of http://xoblite.net/anniversary.html from March 10th, 2007)

Anyway, thanks for keeping the ball rolling Carsomyr - perhaps one day the rest of us will get back in business...

BR//Karl -> qwilk

I don't really care about the menu volume bar either. I was thinking more along the lines of for use by shortcut keys, as it would avoid the current need for NirCmd to change volume with the keys under vista.


Its currently got less functionality than yours in bb4, I can promise you. But maybe I'll catch up

I just got tired of hunting around for stuff in the bbLeanbar source, so I just did my own bar plugin. The vertical ability for the bar is mostly because I want to reuse parts of the code for other plugins later.

Keeping the ball rolling is currently a bit self-centered actaully, becuase they are features I want

25 December 2007.


Vista specific functions looks good, except empty „Desktop” field in alt-tab, but this is cosmetic.
I can't load bbInterface - no procedure _GetBlackboxPath@8 in blackbox.exe
And i have no icons in menu.

Overall it look very promising. Would you mind adding drag and drop, and custom icon sizes to boxBar? Im using 120 dpi, so would prefer 20 or 40 px icons.

Good to see the expansion.

The list of branches over at the bb4win SF site has been updated.

If you can set up a separate link for boxBar, it will be added to the list on the plugins page.

Get that "no procedure _GetBlackboxPath@8" error with most plugins. 'Sokay though, I like it lean anyway.

I'm still doing this

I'll sort out the GetBlackboxPath problem sometime today and put up a new version, I had to make some changes to the def file for the 64 bit compiles and that seems to have broken that specific function because its different to the rest of the api.

Menu icons are disabled in the rc file that is in the zip, but you should be able to just set the icon size up to 16 again and they should reappear. I'll check though.


Icons sizes I'll do quickly. I'll need to figure out the drag and drop though

@cthu1hu : I know you said in the vista tray thread that you had problems with the other branches on vista. Are you seeing any of those here?

THX!

Icons - sorry, wrong description of error - they show, but only in sub-menus:
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/7087 ... onsdu2.png

Nope. I'm using bbleanbar and everything works 100%.

Zygzak, menu icons are working fine.

Are there any other items, or not yet?

Not currently, sorry.

I'm working on the workspace label, and then I'll try and do the buttons that you can add in bbLeanbar.
If theres something else I'll consider it.

Glad that icons are working in the menu because I haven't really touched that part.
@Zygzak: you might want to try a menu.rc from another install where you did have icons in the main menu, if you haven't already