ESP-Toolbar-Component-Tutorial

ESP Toolbar Component TutorialWelcome to the tutorial for the Exponential Software Developers’ Toolbar (ESP Toolbar) Component. This covers a complete walk through of the functionality and use of the current toolbar version, which at the time of writing is v1.5.19 (May 2006).The ESP Toolbar is an Internet Explorer 6 style toolbar component, written entirely in Java Swing. As a Java Swing (JFC) component, it can be plugged directly into any Java Swing application or applet that is Java 2 compliant (or better).OverviewThe ESP Toolbar has two major components; the ToolbarContainer and the Toolbar. The Toolbar Container is the main top level component, which can contain one or more Toolbar components, placed in horizontal regions known as slots.Each toolbar component can be created and added to the container, and a new slot will be created for each new toolbar, unless it is added with a specific slot number. It is possible for more than one toolbar to exist in one slot. When the screen containing the ESP Toolbar is displayed at runtime, the user may also grab toolbars with the mouse and shift them around, dragging and dropping them between horizontal slots, or dragging them left and right to reorder toolbars within one slot. When a toolbar is dragged over the top of another horizontally, the toolbars will swap position. Also, if a toolbar is dragged out of a horizontal slot and that slot is left empty, the slot is automatically removed shrinking the ...