Vieka releases vBar Version 1.3

[Steven Cedrone]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.vieka.com/vbar.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.vieka.com/vbar.htm</a><br /><br /></div>"At a mere 21K bytes, vBar is the world's smallest and fastest Pocket PC Task Manager!"<br /><br /> <img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/vbar00.jpg" /> <br /><br />What's new in version 1.3:<br /><br />• The OK button in both Programs and Settings are enabled to allow easy navigation. <br />• The OK button problem with some third party software such as List Pro, etc. was fixed. <br /><br />vBar can be downloaded in either executable or .cab format for your installation pleasure! :wink: And best of all, it's free!!!

[Jonathan1]

Does anyone know of a task\program manager that actually uses the colors of the theme for the PPC? Its somewhat annoying when you go through the time and effort to make a theme with good coloring and you get WISBAR and its clones to plop a blue bar over it. Dang it I like my gradate coloring! :D

[daninnj]

If I'm not mistaken, Pelmar's Wisbar has a "Use 2002 Theme/Facelift Colors" option.

DanInNJ

[G-squared]

Gigatask uses the theme color on my PPC. I use it in Pro Mode and it works really well.

[RickP in AZ]

Magic Button works great with themes. In fact this is the main reason why it has weened me away from vBar... Also free.

(Does anyone get the feeling that I like Magic Button based on how often I've mentioned it lately?)

[TopDog]

Does anyone know of a task\program manager that actually uses the colors of the theme for the PPC?
Switch!

You can find it here:
http://www.hfrmobile.com/download_system.htm

I love this app... doesn't slow down the PPC at all :-)

[Jason Lee]

wow! that magic button is really cool. i had never heard of it before. man, there are soooo many apps out there to fix microsoft's (X) oops.

[Steve C]

I really like Magic Button, but I do wish I could skin the background to look more like the Bliss background I currently use :?

[jeffmd]

pocketblinds integrates a styled pull down task manager very much like this. looks and works great but pocket blinds itself is a cpu hog.

[jimski]

Does anyone know of a task\program manager that actually uses the colors of the theme for the PPC? Its somewhat annoying when you go through the time and effort to make a theme with good coloring and you get WISBAR and its clones to plop a blue bar over it. Dang it I like my gradate coloring! :D

Not a problem. I am using vBar with a sand color theme. vBar allows you to insert a background image, so I opened Paint on my desktop and created a small bitmap file that exactly matches the color of my theme and viola, you can't tell the difference. Only took two or three tries to get it perfect.

[Steve C]

jimski, it is good to know that you can create a small bitmap and use it with vBAR. My only problem is that I don't have a paint program on my laptop. Any other suggestion? Thanks,
Steve :oops:

[Kati Compton]

jimski, it is good to know that you can create a small bitmap and use it with vBAR. My only problem is that I don't have a paint program on my laptop. Any other suggestion? Thanks,
Steve :oops:

Not even in Programs > Accessories > Paint?

[Steve C]

Well, I guess that shows how often I use the paint program. Thanks,
Steve

[Kati Compton]

That's okay - it's not like it's a *great* paint program.