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 The ButtonBar
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  The buttonbar has become one of the standard components that you may
  find in almost all Windows applications.

  The purpose of the buttonbar is to provide a quick access to the most used
  choices of your application. Also it takes advantage of using images
  instead of words to show what they do.

  A well designed buttonbar helps a lot in quickly understanding and
  managing an application. Don't use images without meaning. Use
  intuitive drawings that lets everybody use the application easily.

  A buttonbar is an area of the screen where there are some buttons with
  icons (FiveWin uses bitmaps) offering different actions. Normally when you
  move the mouse over those buttons, the message of the bottom bar is the
  same as selecting the same option from the pulldown menu.

  FiveWin let us select a 3D looking buttonbar (see ButtonBar xBase
  commands) and to select the desired dimensions for its buttons. Also
  it is possible to use bitmaps that automatically adjust to the surface
  of the buttons.

  Most applications use buttonbars that have the ability to changing its
  position on the screen. FiveWin lets you place a buttonbar at the Top,
  Left, Bottom and right position of the window that holds it, and
  optionally it may be a floating buttonbar. To select its starting
  position use the xBase commands we provide to manage it. To change its
  position on the fly just right click on it (not over the buttons). A
  popup menu will let the user make the position selection.

  Also it is possible to destroy on the fly the buttonbar you may be
  using and replace it for a new one. All the windows have a :oBtnBar
  DATA that may be freely manipulated. Remember that to destroy any control
  we use the message :End().

  The next version of FiveWin will offer new and powerful possibilities
  that we are working on (like rulers, multiple buttonbars, scrollable
  buttonbars, user guided configurable buttonbars, and more...).

  Please let us know your needs, and feel free to send us any enhancement
  you would like us to review. A good designed and powerful buttonbar is
  a very important component of a Windows application.