Difficult to create a toolbar?

I think so...

[webbie]

Hi!

Just by curiosity, anyone knows if it's difficult to create a custom toolbar for the visitors of my site? (like Google toolbar, yahoo toolbar, etc.).

[bcc1234]

I don't code for windows and don't code gui, but I'm pretty sure it's a mix of MFC with IE libs.

So basically, a bunch of classes, functions, and event handles (or hooks) that you build on top of.

[chrisridings]

To satisfy your curiosity, the answer is it isn't easy (which is why the web isn't swarming with them). Once you've done the work to get a base system, adding buttons isn't hard. But adding elements that need to read data off the web introduces some unique problems.

[carlwright]

We've had one built for us - which I thought (in my naivity) would take a few days. A month and a half later the coder supplied the finished product having previously supplied a dozen or so different versions that had a dozen or so different problems!

Not as easy as you may think!

[webbie]

:o thanks for your answers

[john316]

There is a toolbar that you can customize/cobrand and offer your clients called ultrabar.