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I'm DESPERATE for a TOOLBAR PROGRAMMER!!!!

by NewbiesDiary
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I'm looking for a programmer who can build a toolbar. It will be something similar to RoboForm, but not the same.

Now yes, I know this isn't the programmers area, but I've contacted everyone in that section with no luck & I'm just a little hesitant using one of the outsourcing sites - I've had a couple of bad experiences with them.

If you can do this or recommend someone, I'd be a happy little camper.
#desperate #programmer #toolbar
  • Profile picture of the author AverageGuy
    search google "toolbar builder" (without "). I remeber there are some free software that can build toolbar automatically for IE. not sure whether it is what you want.


    david
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    • Profile picture of the author NewbiesDiary
      Originally Posted by AverageGuy View Post

      search google "toolbar builder" (without "). I remeber there are some free software that can build toolbar automatically for IE. not sure whether it is what you want.

      david
      thanks - I've got toolbar software & it's as clear as mud to me - I have no bloody idea what to do with it & I think the toolbar I want is a bit more techy, so it'd def stump me.

      Plus I'm trying to take some frequently offered advice & outsource it.
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  • Profile picture of the author BIG Mike
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    • Profile picture of the author NewbiesDiary
      Originally Posted by BIG Mike View Post

      Just for your own future reference, this type of thread should be posted here:
      Warriors For Hire - Programmers, Website Designers, Graphic Artists
      Hey Big Mike - thanks for that - but I've already scoured through there & contacted all the programmers advertising, and they aren't able to do toolbars.

      So I thought I'd post it here & maybe get a referal from a fellow warrior who has used or knows a programmer who can help me
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  • Profile picture of the author TheToolWiz
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    • Profile picture of the author NewbiesDiary
      Originally Posted by TheToolWiz View Post

      the problem with toolbars is that they tend to be browser-specific. I use one in FireFox called "Foxmarks" which has been out for quite a while. They introduced a beta version for IE a few months ago, and I see they now have a beta for Safari.

      In IE they have to be ActiveX based. In FF they can be written in Chrome. I don't have a clue what Safari or Opera need.

      The toolbar builders only build them for IE by basically passing a Windows Resource File to the IE toolbar ActiveX component. If you need anything out-of-the-ordinary, you'll need to find someone who can write an ActiveX component for you. Well, with IE7, it might need to be a .NET component (which won't work in earlier versions of IE AFAIK).

      I seriously doubt anything I said made a bit of sense to you, but it should give you an indication of WHY you're having such an impossible time finding anybody to help you!

      -David
      Okayyyyyyy - thanks??

      hahaha - no that is actually helpful.

      By the sounds of things you have an idea on how to do this?????

      I'm happy at the moment to have it built for only one of the browsers - but prob would pref IE & FF

      Are you able to do this?
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      • Profile picture of the author TheToolWiz
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        • Profile picture of the author NewbiesDiary
          Originally Posted by TheToolWiz View Post

          NOOOOOooooooo!!!!!!!!!! (as he turns and runs away!)

          I looked into it in early 2007, and got disgusted at how unbelievably complicated it was. It seems like it should be simple. I mean, it's nothing more than a basic panel with edit fields on it that gets attached to the toolbar on your browser. That's the simple part.

          However, the "plumbing" needed to get it to interact with the rest of the browser makes reading "War And Peace" seem a 3rd Grade reading primer. It's running inside the context of the form it's on, which means it should be able to access anything there. But the IE Browser isn't a monolithic program -- it's a form with an embedded web browser object grafted onto it, with another layer to handle all of the buttons and some of the security stuff, along with a sh*tpile of other crap oozing out of several other interfaces that have to be overridden to make sure it doesn't crap all over any of its neighboring toolbars -- none of which it knows about. It's like living in a house sharing living space with a bunch of strangers and you're all blind and have various kinds of hearing losses.

          Honestly, the simplest toolbar I've ever seen was a mini-web browser itself that was programed in javascript and glued to the bottom of the toolbar area! It was quite ingenious.

          -David
          So - was that a NO?

          hahaha - do you know someone?
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  • Profile picture of the author Martha Richardson
    Conduit.com allows you to build a toolbar and the process allows for considerable flexibility.

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