OK theres a post on Aqua-Soft about a finderbar that..

-is adaptive
-changes
-uses REAL menues

but the creator needs some people to help him make it so the app recognizes more toolbars
his post below:

ac OS X has a neat feature to show menu bar at the top. There is an option to do this in Linux, but I did not find any way to do that in Windows

So I'm trying to solve this issue by myself. I've created a little application that steals a menu bar from foreground window and puts it to the task bar. Here's what I've got:

http://www.swfmax.com/osx/nomenubar.jpg

http://www.swfmax.com/osx/nomenubar2.jpg

As you can see, foreground window has no menu bar. It is put to the task bar! And what's more, you can click the menus and they work.

Actually this is a result of an hour of work, so don't "shift your expectations" about it yet. There are some serious problems with it:
* Some apps refuse to reveal their menus: iTunes, QuickTime, Explorer and some other do not work. Flash, Notepad, PhotoEditor and ACDSee work (relatively) fine.
* Menu bar does not update to reflect app changes
* It does not restore the menu bar. App leaves "menu-bar-less" until the next launch.
* No images/graphics are available in my menu bar. It can not inherit menu look from the original app.

You can download my clumsy hack:

http://www.swfmax.com/osx/topmenu.rar

Instructions are included. I'm waiting for any comments. If you like the idea - let me know and I'll go on with this stuff. If this hopelessly sucks or there is someone who have accomplished this task already - let me know too. A way to contact:
http://www.swfmax.com/contact.php


There are plenty of bars that don't change or arn't free..but this one has potential if some people can help i thought i'd bring this to peoples attention so that way we'd have a community created app that realy works..

I hope u guys like it !

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Thats going to be great when it comes out in the full version. It'll look great with the fonts and the tool bars working correctly. Good work.

Hm.. It sounds great but when I download it I can not open it... It is a .rar file, isn't it?...

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Sounds very good, let's hope he can get some help on this. By the way, MMGUI could you post the link to that forum?

freaking awesome!!! sounds good

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So is this an explorer.exe replacment? Thats what we need!

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Joel Brown

here is that thread.

Thanks Careyt!

Wouldn't an explorer replacement be dangerous?

haha yea what nylock said :]

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