This needs the .NET 1.1 Framework to work. It is a C# program.
This is an Alpha release of the Bar. It works with Office 2003 and Firefox (but can easily be changed to work with Internet Explorer), and should be easily changed to work with any version of Office.
May 12th 2006 : Alpha 2 release , a few tweaks, an exit button, and a global exception catching.
Help me test this and improve it !
Also, I've never used the KS3 programs so it's very much a trial run. It's not a perfect mimic, that's almost impossible, but it is near enough.
Not implemented yet are the help system and the shrink away bars ; as a bare minimum.
To run it, download it, and unzip the two files, KS3Bar.Exe and Control.Txt into a working directory, then run KS3Bar. It's a tiny download (at the moment, it is 15k) but it does require the NET1.1 Framework to run.
The above version is the backported to Net 1.1 (so I can do other stuff in VS2003), but the 2.0 one is here but further work will be on the Net1.1 version.
You will need the same setup as me to run it straight off ; that is Office 2003 (for WP/SS/DB/PR/EMAIL), Firefox (for NET) but edit the Control.Txt file for other versions ; please ask for help as I'd like to get this working on as many apps as possible.
If you don't have my setup then only File Explorer will work (as this uses Windows Explorer). The main (probably only) change for other versions of Office is to change the path to the Office Applications, which I believe changes from version to version.
This app is harmless ALL it does is to resize and shuffle Windows, and look at their title bars. There are no hooks in the system, it doesn't install *anything* - except its executable and control file.
Send all feedback, suggestions, improvements etc. to me by email.
The plan is that this will allow you to set up a KS3 Familiarisation environment with tasks and so on while still using standard Windows Applications. It is customisable so almost all Windows Applications will work.
This is what it looks like (this snap is yesterday, but it looks pretty similar), running Microsoft Excel 2003.