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How to make a deskbar searchbox?

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 5:08 am
by ptrpan
Hi all

I know this forum is for php, but I have no other place to go. :( None of the other forums where I went could/wanted to help me.

My problem is, I want to develop a deskbar search box that is linked to my site. Google has a similar searchbox type of thing that comes with Google Desktop.

I dont know where to start (especially what language to use). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you my fellow developers

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:06 am
by feyd
What the heck is a "deskbar"?

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 8:31 am
by ptrpan
if you have google desktop installed on your machine there would be a searchbox right next to the system tray(the place where the system clock is)

That my dear friends, is the deskbar. It is situated on the taskbar, next to the system tray

There is software that makes things a bit easier Deskbarbuilder, But I dont have $950 to do that. It will be a lot cheaper if you can do it yourself. And I know it is possible!

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 3:11 am
by ptrpan
I did a bit more of searching and came up with this

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/dotnetbandobjects.asp

Hopefully this gives you guys out there an idea of what Im looking for.

Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2007 11:39 pm
by alex.barylski
Look up articles by Mike Dunn and Erik Thomson(i think his name was)

Mike has written an entire series of articles on shell extensions (which is what you need).

If your asking a C++ question on a PHP forum, your not starting on the right path....

It's not the C/C++ that will kill when developing a shell extension, it's understanding M$ COM technologies, ATL and the crazy API.

Brush up on design patterns as they refer to those alot more than they do in MFC.