Hi,

we have just purchased a multi developer license for the toolkit pro in order we may give our product an outlook 2003 style makeover.

Something i feel that is necessary to achieve this is for the behaviour of the outlook 'shortcut bars' (on the left hand side) to act as those in Outlook 2003 itself: they should remain static at the bottom and the area towards the top changes when a shortcut bar is selected.

Both the Outlook2003_GUI and outlookbar samples do not behave as the real outlook2003 does (as described above) - instead the shotcut bars behave like older versions of outlook, i.e. they move to the top area and the icons are displayed below it.

I originally did an evaluation using the demo sdk about 6 months or so ago and im fairly sure that the default behaviour was more like outlook2003, so im a little confused.

i've looked and played around with both methods of creating the outlook style shorcut area (CXTOutBarCtrl and CXTPTaskPanel) but am unable to achieve the desired effect.

Am i missing something obvious or is it not posible?

Ahh, found it...

CXTPShortCutBar

not entirely sure why the outlook sample doesnt make use of this in some way, but the important thing is ive found it now :)