Figure 21-12: The toolbar with a complete set of buttons in .NET

Drawer QR Code in .NET Figure 21-12: The toolbar with a complete set of buttons

Although, for the most part, the general use Web browser has few special features, it does boast a status bar with a date, clock, and timer display Here s how to build it: 1 In the drop-down menu below the toolbox, select the Status Bar command set The Status Bar commands appear in the toolbox 2 Click the Status Bar button The Status Bar dialog box appears 3 Select the Status Bar s location and then click the Browse button The Load Status Bar Image dialog box appears

4 Locate the image you want to use for your status bar and double-click the image s filename The selected filename appears in the Status Bar dialog box s Status Bar Image text box 5 Click the Status Bar dialog box s OK button The status bar appears in the custom browser window 6 Click the Icon button The Load Status Bar Icon dialog box appears 7 Locate the icon you want to use on your status bar and double-click the image s filename Your icon appears in the status bar 8 Click the Clock command in the toolbox The clock panel appears in your status bar 9 Click the Timer command in the toolbox The Timer Type dialog box appears (see Figure 21-13)

10 Leave the timer type set to Session Timer and click OK The Timer panel appears in the status bar 11 Click the Date command in the toolbox The Date panel appears in your status bar 12 Click the Current URL command in the toolbox The Current URL panel appears in your status bar Figure 21-14 shows the completed status bar 13 Choose File Save The Browser Construction Kit saves your browser s data

Like the toolbar (see the previous section), this browser s address bar sports a couple of extras that you don t usually see in a normal Web browser These extras are what I ve named Favorites buttons You associate these buttons with favorite Web sites and then can navigate to those sites with just a single mouse click Perform the following tasks to add your address bar: 1 In the drop-down menu below the toolbox, select the Address Bar command set The Address Bar commands appear in the toolbox 2 Click the Address Bar button The Address Bar dialog box appears 3 Select the address bar s location and then click the Browse button The Load Address Bar Image dialog box appears 4 Locate the image you want to use for your address bar and doubleclick the image s filename The selected filename appears in the Address Bar dialog box s Address Bar Image text box 5 Click the Go Button command The Go button appears in your address bar

6 Click the Favorite 1 command The Favorite Button dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 21-15

7 Type the URL with which you want the button associated and then click OK The Favorite 1 button appears in the address bar 8 Use the Favorite 2, Favorite 3, and Favorite 4 commands in the toolbox to add the remaining favorites buttons to the address bar, the same way you added the Favorite 1 button in Steps 6 and 7 Your custom browser now has a complete address bar, as shown in Figure 21-16 9 Choose File Save The Browser Construction Kit saves your browser s data

You can t have a browser without a browser pane Well, you can if you ve got one of those new psychic browsers that project the Web pages directly into your brain (I know they exist, because I ordered one from a spam e-mail I got a few weeks ago Funny that it hasn t been delivered yet, though) Anyway, here s how to add a browser pane to your general-use browser: 1 In the drop-down menu below the toolbox, select the Browser command set The Browser commands appear in the toolbox 2 Click the Browser button The browser pane appears in your browser s window (see Figure 21-17)