Question

i have created an IE band object (toolbar) that is working well. however, when installed on a new machine it is not visible by default. Of course one can turn it on by right clicking the toolbar area and selecting it, however, i would like to know if there is a way or an option in the registry that will enable me to have the bar turned on straight after installation.

Does anyonwe know how to do this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can show toolbar programatically from BHO (you can find more info about making BHOs here):

STDMETHODIMP MyBHO::SetSite(IUnknown *pUnkSite)
{
    if( /*is this the first run since BHO was installed?*/ )
    {
        CComQIPtr<IWebBrowser2, &IID_IWebBrowser2> webBrowser2 = pUnkSite; 
        if( webBrowser2 != NULL )
        {
            VARIANT vtBandGUID, vtShow, vtSize;

            vtBandGUID.vt = VT_BSTR;
            vtBandGUID.bstrVal = SysAllocString( OLESTR( "{TOOLBAR-GUID}" ) );

            vtShow.vt = VT_BOOL;
            vtShow.boolVal = true;

            vtSize.vt = VT_I2;
            vtSize.iVal = 0;

            webBrowser2->ShowBrowserBar( &vtBandGUID, &vtShow, &vtSize );
            SysFreeString( vtBandGUID.bstrVal );
        }
    }

    return S_OK;
}