Dev-Picayune

After having finally setup a framework of classes with inheritance (gag), I managed to hack the toolbar to an early display stage. The following screen shot shows the toolbar in its earliest form. To avoid any possible optimism, I killed off the title bar to really show the bar at its essence.

The icon was generated using the code I have tested that pulls the icon info from windows — essentially the code asks the OS what the official icon is for c:\windows\notepad.exe (windows since I run xp and not 2000 at home). The work part was making it actually utilize my classes and properties and methods to load and display the icon. There isn’t much there but at least it isn’t pure hardcode it was dynamically created at run-time.

So currently I have placed a tiny rock in a giant bucket that I still need to fill up to get this thing really working, but it’s a start. The worst is yet to come, I can tell.