[BeBar icon] [BeBar screenshot] Be Bar


Description

BeBar shows the icons of running apps on a bar making their main menus easily accessible. The bar shows large icons by default but can be switched to small icons by a menu option (This is remembered the next launch). Background apps may be shown additionally in their own bar (small icons only; remembered, too).

Operating the bar

Services

The main menu of the BeBar itself provides access to system preferences (all apps from /boot/preferences) and to apps which have been quitted recently (the last ten quitted apps can be relaunched this way; they are remembered the next launch). Useful items such as apps/folders/queries can be dropped on the BeBar icon which adds them to a submenu of the main menu. To remove an item from there, select it while holding down the CONTROL key.

Gadgets

Other applications may request space on the BeBar to display small bitmaps there (e.g. a clock). This is achieved through BMessages sent by a wrapper class named DFGadget. The source code for this class is contained in the BeBar distribution as well as three sample modules: Clock, Pulse and Memory.

Modules

Applications which do nothing else besides controlling a gadget on the BeBar are called modules. They can be put in the "Modules" folder (which has to live in the same folder as BeBar). All modules in this special folder are launched automatically when BeBar is launched and quitted again when BeBar quits. Furthermore they are accessible from the main menu of the BeBar.


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