Photo shows CandyBarZ Setup with Initor on @Macarlo's Warp 4.0
The CandyBarZ team at OS/2 Netlabs just releases
a new version of the well known titlebar enhancer, the 1.20b. You can get a copy
at http://www.netlabs.org/candybarz/
CandyBarZ is THE titlebar replacement for OS/2. CandyBarZ'
primary feature is gradient-filled titlebars; you choose the top and bottom colors,
and it does the rest. Both active and inactive colors are supported, and CandyBarZ
will not muck up your titlebar text colors or fonts. Custom colors for individual
programs are also supported. I, @Macarlo, registered user of 204 OS/2 programs, including CandyBarZ (I registered
it in advance in BMT Micro, December 97) just downloaded the new file (cbarz120b.zip, 137,5Kb) from Netlabs
and I'm using it on my Warp 4.0.
!NEW IN VERSION 1.20b!
- Support for images inside titlebars!
- Support for 3 dimensional text inside titlebars!
- New look and feel for the Setup Dialog!
- More bug fixes. ahem....
!!CAUTION!! -
The installation process has changed. If you are upgrading,
DO NOT UNINSTALL FIRST! Uninstallation will delete your CandyBar.INI file,
and your customization efforts will be wasted.
PLEASE read the instructions thoroughly before proceeding with installation.
As CandyBarZ REPLACES PART OF OS/2, failure to follow the instructions
accurately may result in severe problems.
Extensive online help is also available.
The Files
Just to make sure everything is in order before you start,
check that the
following files were extracted from the CandyBarZ archive:
CandyBar.dll
PSRT.DLL
CBSetup.exe
CBSetup.hlp
CandyBar.txt (since you're reading it now...)
Requirements
OS/2. CandyBarZ has been tested with OS/2 Warp 3 and Warp
4. It
should work on any 32-bit OS/2 platform, however.
MMOS/2 is used for image file support and must be installed.
New Installation
Start the CBSetup program. Until CandyBarZ is installed,
the setup
notebook has only one page, Install/Uninstall. This page will let you
select the destination directories for CandyBar.dll, PSRT.dll and
CandyBar.ini (note that CandyBar.ini is NOT included in the archive, it
will be created when CandyBarZ is first loaded). Context sensitive help
is available for all controls on this page (tab to the control and hit
F1).
When the installation is complete, you must reboot so that OS/2 can
load CandyBar.dll.
NOTE: Whack-A-Mole uses a previous version of PSRT.DLL. If you have
Whack-A-Mole installed, please remove the version of PSRT.DLL that came
with Whack-A-Mole.
NOTE: CandyBar.dll and PSRT.DLL MUST reside in a directory specified in
your LIBPATH line in CONFIG.SYS.
Upgrade
!!CAUTION!! - The installation process has changed. If you are upgrading,
DO NOT UNINSTALL FIRST! Uninstallation will delete your CandyBar.INI file,
and your customization efforts will be wasted.
Start the CBSetup program and turn to the Install/Uninstall page. Press
the "Install" button. Reboot to load the new DLLs.
Customization
Once CandyBarZ is installed, two additional pages are added
to the setup
notebook, one for the default color scheme, and one for custom colors.
The Default Colors page will let you set up the scheme that CandyBarZ uses
for all titlebars which don't have an explicit custom scheme. The Custom
Colors page, of course, lets you choose custom colors program by program,
as well as disable CandyBarZ program by program.
Online help is available for all fields on these pages.
Potential Problems
Some programs may either have problems with CandyBarZ or
completely ignore CandyBarZ.
A list of known problems is included in the online help, as well as
instructions for selectively disabling CandyBarZ.
There may be additional problems not listed in the online help. Please
report them at
peter.garner@toward.com
Registration
There is none! CandyBarZ has been released to OS/2 Netlabs
and, as a
consequence, is now FREE!
License and Disclaimer
There are no warranties, express or implied. The authors
and OS/2 Netlabs
may not be held responsible for any damage, direct or indirect, caused to
your computer, productivity, or anything else by this software. This
software is not warranted to be free of bugs.
This software may not be used for military purposes. It may be used by
military personnel in a civilian setting for civilian purposes only.
History
24 July, 1997 1.00 Initial release
02 August, 1997 1.01 Fix lots of bugs, probably introduce some
others
02 September, 1997 1.10 Add horizontal gradients, fill option, 3D
border highlight, clean up CBSetup some, fix
bugs, some optimizations
27 September, 1998 1.20b Fix bugs, of course. Add 3D text, redesign
CBSetup, add image support, add PMView and S3
workarounds
CONTACT AUTHOR:
Please send your
bugs reports or ideas about CandyBarZ to Peter Garner!
Peter Garner
<peter.garner@toward.com>, Teamleader
Eric Norman <warped@cs.montana.edu>
Matthew J. Wagner <erlkonig@alum.mit.edu>,
original coding
This project is supported by the OS/2 Netlabs at
http://www.netlabs.org
@Macarlo, Inc.
@Macarlo's Shareware & Web
OS/2
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