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(ActiveBar 3.0) Build: 3.2.0.187

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02-01-2011, 10:56 AM

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Case	Release Notes
10216 (CR15795)	Combo box does not give up focus as expected.
11716	Icon editor now warns of 32 bit icons with tarnsparency.
11726	The MoreTools hover state is not correct.
33358	When resizing a band with no tools, the band goes off of the screen.
33360	For 32bit icons with alpha transparency the resizing dialog was shown in the icon editor.
34020	GDI objects are leaked when swicthing between child bands with icons.
44243	Icon editor now displays a useful message about editing icons over 200x200.
49958	Transparency was lost when editing icons in some cases.
78955	Prevented a security exploit when hosted in internet explorer related to saving toolbar files.
81676	32-bit icons for child bands are now displayed correctly.
110435	Added ChildBand.SetPicture to allow specifying icons for a childband with transparent colors.
119827	Switching to another application while an ActiveBar menu was open could cause a first chance exception detectable with a debugger attached to the proecess.
122380	Menu behaviour was incorrect when using accelerator keys on MDI form
124563	After closing menu with 'Esc' key, had to click 'X' twice to close application.
124564	Putting mouse over menu item after using Esc key to close it would drop down the menu again.
124567	Automated test tools that use sophisticated Alt keyboard navigation to navigate menus in would not work in specific scenarios.
128675	Top and Left properties of floating Bands return wrong values after SaveLayoutChanges
134483	ActiveBar doesn't change tool focus correctly in some cases
140502	32-bit icons don't show in 16-bit Windows mode
140503	Memory leak after loading layout changes.

(ActiveBar 3.0) Build: 3.2.0.174 (SP2)

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10-08-2007, 6:06 PM

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CR Number	Change Request Summary
25931	ActiveBar designer duplicates Bands and Tools when using numeric shortcut keys.
25918	User would like ActiveBar to NOT respond to shortcut keys and accelerator keys when TextBox or ComboBox has focus.
24557	The window handle (Hwnd) type definition for an ActiveBarLibraryCtl Tool should be of type OLE_Handle.
24024	Users would like to have the icon editor available for ChildBand's' Picture property.
23120	ActiveBar is throwing an 'Access violation exception' by WinDbg when using it with PageHeap utility.
22718	It is difficult to dock a floating Band to the bottom dock line.
22644	SubBands do not paint correctly when not all tools fit on the screen.
22500	NavigationBar ChildBandStyle is experiencing a redrawing issue.
22356	When the navigation tray (for NavigationBar ChildBandStyle) contains more items than can be displayed, the ChildBandChange event publishes the wrong Band.
22282	Ensure ActiveBar works well in Windows Vista.
22079	There is a memory leak when selecting a different MDI child form on the WindowsList.
21983	When a bands AutoSizeForms property is set to True, the BandResize event is not firing.
21971	Setting a Label tool's AutoSize property to SpringWidth and/or SpringHeight does not have an effect when using Office2003 or VisualStudio2005 ToolbarStyles.
21667	ActiveBar designer should Alphabetize the properties list.
21333	Pressing the Shift key or CTRL key causes a SubBand to inadvertently close.
21054	ActiveBar's TextBox is preventing focus events from firing on other controls.
19245	Dragging a toolbar with a windows ComboBox exposes a redraw problem.
7717	Users would like for ActiveBar to support 32 bit alpha icons.
1390	When the Customize Flag is not set and the DisplayMoreToolsButton is True, the Add and Remove Buttons should not display.

(ActiveBar 3.0) Build: 3.1.0.156 (SP1)

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07-24-2006, 4:22 PM

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CR Number	Change Request Summary
21725	The ActiveBar 3.0 VC++ samples incorrectly reference the ActiveBar 2.0 CLSID.
21592	When the visibility of a band containing a control is set to false, the control is not hidden with the band.
21505	When a sliding tabbed band hosts a control a space appears at the top of the control.
21502	The new parameter added to the BandDock event requires existing code to be changed.
21055	The first character in an ActiveBar textbox draws on top of the left border of the textbox.
20529	Hosting a combo box on a popup band causes the combo box to overlap the icon area of the popup band.
18934	The ToolClick event does not fire after clicking on the toolbar with the ALT key pressed and then releasing the ALT key.
18876	Added two read-only properties, ToolbarBackgroundStartColor and ToolbarBackgroundEndColor, that return the start and end color values for gradient bands.
18707	Moved the first tool on sliding tabbed and navigation bar bands down.
18546	Added a band FlatStyle property that allows the band background color to be gradient or solid.
18541	Working with CheckedIconText and IconText tools on the same popup band causes tool text misalignment.
18270	When using the Office 2003 toolbar style, disabled tools do not paint correctly.
10305	Updated the BandDock event so the Band.DockingArea returns the correct value during the drag operation.
8669	Hosted controls become disabled when displaying a message box in the Activate event for the Form.
3099	Added a LabelFormat property that allows the user to specify the date and time formats for labels.

(ActiveBar 3.0) Build: 3.0.0.142 (Initial Release)

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01-25-2006, 2:39 PM

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CR Number	Change Request Summary
18710	At design time, when clicking a tool with a SubBand assigned the tool does not paint correctly.
18709	When floating a Navigation Bar or Sliding Tabbed Band with the Close flag set, two close buttons appear on the band.
18637	When using the Office 2003 or VS 2005 ToolbarStyles, Comboboxes and Textboxes do not display correctly in the Customize dialog.
18633	When using the Office 2003 or VS 2005 ToolbarStyles, the shortcuts on the Add or Remove Tools menu do not paint correctly.
18632	ActiveBar does not always size floating toolbars correctly.
18612	Minimizing and restoring a form with floating toolbars on it can cause a redrawing problem.
18598	When setting the ToolbarStyle to Office XP, moving a mouse pointer over a separator on a menu causes the left side banner of the menu to not paint correctly.
18586	When there are several menu items in a popup band, ActiveBar has a problem drawing after the mouse pointer hovers over a menu item.
18554	If you place the ActiveBar control on a form and then host that form in a band, ActiveBar does not paint correctly.
18553	When setting the ToolbarStyle to Office 2000, docking the toolbar on the left or right of a form makes all of the tools not visible on the toolbar.
18544	Users would like the Visual Studio 2005 ToolbarStyle to more accurately emulate Visual Studio 2005.
18541	Tools become misaligned when working with CheckedIconText and IconText tools on the same popup band.
18538	When displaying a message box in the ToolKeyDown, ToolKeyUp, or ToolKeyPress event, the project does not close correctly.
18521	Sliding tabs do not look as smooth as in previous versions of ActiveBar.
18516	There are problems with the tool image shadow when changing the ToolbarStyle at run time.
18484	When using the Office 2003 ToolbarStyle, menu tool images do not center.
18482	ActiveBar 3.0 has a new GUID so that ActiveBar 2.0 and ActiveBar 3.0 can run side-by-side on the same machine.
18481	When using the Office 2003 ToolbarStyle, too much space appears around the separator tools on menus.
18471	A resource leak occurs when using the Office 2003 or Visual Studio 2005 ToolbarStyle.
18443	Floating toolbars do not fade after toggling the bar visibility.
18438	The Expand and Close buttons do not blend in with the background color of the band GrabHandle.
18437	The Expand and Close buttons do not highlight when moving the mouse pointer over the buttons.
18436	Navigation bars do not respond to the mouse correctly when docked in the same docking area as a Sliding Tabbed band.
18431	When using the Office 2003 or Visual Studio 2005 ToolbarStyle, turning the Hide flag off and floating the toolbar causes the More Tools button to fill the entire width of the title bar.
18425	After hiding a child band, the Navigation bar does not paint correctly.
18412	When using the Microsoft Application Verifier, an error message occurs when unloading an ActiveBar designed MDI child form.
18410	When clicking a tool located on a popup band while in customization mode, the popup band closes after the click.
18376	When using the Microsoft Application Verifier, an error occurs after setting the ActiveBar AlignToForm property to False and there is a ComboBox tool on a band.
18302	When using nested menus, pressing the ESC key closes all SubBands and the current Menu bar looses focus.
18294	When a ComboBox or TextBox is the first tool on a toolbar, the tools paint one pixel too low.
18270	When using the Office 2003 ToolbarStyle, disabled tools do not paint correctly.
18214	When using the Office XP ToolbarStyle there needs to be more space between the tool image and text on the popup menus.
18021	When a Combobox or Textbox is on a Popup menu, if the tool receives focus, the edit portion of the control shifts to the left.
17879	The ActiveTool object is not accurate when there are hidden tools.
17682	When a menu main menu is open, right-clicking a different control does not fire the MouseUp event for that control.
17277	The GetBandFromPosition method sometimes returns Nothing even though the coordinates are over an ActiveBar band.
17235	When the help file is missing, ActiveBar reports that it is not able to find ActiveBar30.chm. This is not the name of the ActiveBar help file.
16952	When a Combobox is on a popup menu, displaying the Combolist and then closing the form causes the Popup menu and tools to remain visible after the form unloads.
16819	Hosted controls become disabled after displaying a message box.
16373	Tools added via the Customize dialog will not add the tool at the place it was dropped.
16290	Need to add localization for the Toolbar name already exists. Use another name message.
16266	Pressing the Down arrow key can cause the ActiveBar menu to close when it is hosted on an MDI form.
15795	Comboboxes do not give up focus as expected.
15734	Unable to use the keyboard to navigate through menu items on an MDI form with disabled menu items.
15600	Resizing a Toolbar band with all of the buttons hidden causes the band to quickly move to the right.
15543	The Arrow keys seem to be disabled when trying to cycle through the Menu bar.
14832	ActiveBar Comboboxes do not release focus when clicking on another control.
14673	ActiveBar Comboboxes appear blue when not in focus or when the mouse pointer hovers over the Combobox.
14500	After giving an ActiveBar Textbox focus, KeyDown events no longer fire for the ActiveBar control or the form.
13408	When changing the Large Icons option in the Customize dialog, the order of the toolbars changes if the tools are added at run time.
12804	Visual Basic textboxes lock after moving out of a ActiveBar Popup menu.
12756	When hosting dockable forms in a sliding-tabbed band, sometimes the form flashes in the upper-left portion of the screen before being hosted.
12604	When attempting to remove shortcuts, keyboard customization does not work correctly.
9958	Add an event that fires when a command is dragged from the Customize dialog and dropped on a band.
9852	When a drop-down button is on a popup menu, the arrow does not paint correctly.
8654	When setting the ddBFCustomize Band flag constant for a band, the flag constant is applied to all bands in the application.
7183	When a Combobox is on a Popup menu, setting the focus to the tool keeps the Combobox list from displaying.
5196	When using the XP Toolbar style in an application, clicking on the drop-down arrow in a Combobox makes it draw like a regular 3-D button.
4843	The Customize dialog loses focus when a tool on the ActiveBar control is clicked.
2345	When an ActiveBar Textbox is on a Popup menu, text can be typed in the Textbox but the text cannot be selected with a mouse.
1166	Add an event that fires when the Large Icons checkbox is selected in the Customize dialog.

(ActiveBar 2.0) Build: 2.5.2.121

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10-29-2004, 3:21 PM

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CR Number	Change Request Summary
14617	When the designer is open, you cannot move bands directly on the form.
14616	When the Customize flag is off for a band the Add/Remove option should not be available.
13342	Focus problem in TreeView when using the ActiveBar PopupMenu method.
13107	An error fires when showing a PopupMenu and clicking on another application.
13104	Going in the designer, not making any changes and saving a project is causing the .frx and .tb2 file to grow.
13030	When altering popup menus dynamically the shadow is not updating when XPLook equals True.
11523	Tabbing in a MaskEditBox will not work after clicking on the toolbar.
8235	On sliding tabbed bands, when the tool alignment is set to left and XPLook is true, highlighting the tool causes the left border to paint incorrectly.
7986	In ActiveBar's ComboBox, after you display and close the list by clicking the dropdown arrow, the focus does not remain in the ComboBox.
5729	On a floating and docked toolbar it is possible to cause multiple highlights to appear and also for them to remain after the mouse has moved away from the control.
5667	When navigating a cascading popup menu with the keyboard, the Esc key should only close the current submenu, not the entire cascading popup menu.
4668	When a ComboBox is in a popup you cannot get to it via keyboard to enter text until second attempt using the SetFocus method.
1318	When the Bands Customize flag is not on and the DisplayMoreToolsButton is True, there is a space at the end of the toolbar. When you hover the mouse over the space, a tooltip and blue highlight displays.

(ActiveBar 2.0) Build: 2.5.0.102 (SP4)

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08-28-2004, 10:07 AM

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CR Number	Change Request Summary
11600	When dockable forms are on a MDI child form, the controls on the hosted form will not receive focus.
11521	Controls become locked after displaying a common dialog and switching ChildBands.
11455	When AutoUpdateStatusBar is true, the StausBar labels are disappearing after scrolling a Toolbar's Add and Remove Buttons menu.
11440	VB shuts down when accessing ChildBands that are empty.
11253	Takes two clicks to move from an ActiveBar TextBox to an ActiveBar Tool.
11098	When an ActiveBar ComboBox or TextBox is on a menu and the input area has focus, clicking anywhere else in the menu causes the click to go through to the Tool underneath.
11013	When a Read-Only ComboBox is on a ChildBand, the list is opened if the label text is clicked.
10731	Accelerator keys are not working correctly, if while a menu is displayed you press another accelerator key combination.
10432	Accelerator keys stop working after making a band invisible.
10390	The DockedXXXMinWidth property is being reset after changing the Band flags.
10235	When AutoUpdateStatusbar is set to true, the StatusBar labels disappear after displaying a context menu.
10229	When adding a docked form to a ChildBand, the width is not adjusting to the size of the tools it contains.
10224	When XPLook is true, the highlighting is not complete when hovering over a Tool on a ChildBand with CaptionStyle set to Icon and Text.
10170	When renaming a newly created toolbar in the customize dialog it allows an empty string for the band name.
9947	Get an incorrect outline when resizing a ComboBox while in customize mode.
9905	When an ActiveBar TextBox is in a popup band and XPLook is set to true, if you have the ControlFont set to anything besides MS Sans Serif, then the first character will be displayed mirrored.
9849	When a Tool is passed to GetToolIndex, the actual position of the Tool on the Band should be returned.
9800	The PopupMenu method is not correctly displaying the context menu on each right-click.
9733	VB TextBox is loosing focus the first time a ToolBar Tool is clicked.
9655	When dropping down a ComboBox with like values, the value does not always get selected correctly in the list.
9282	Randomly on WindNT4, when you have an ActiveReports 2 viewer control on a child form, it causes the Min/Max/Close buttons to remain painted in the MenuBar.
9010	A disabled VB ComboBox hosted in a Band becomes enabled after showing a MessageBox.
8943	When using a font besides Arial, the Label Text on the StatusBar gets cut off.
8713	ChildBands are not displaying the same number of Tools as previous builds.
8690	When adding items to a sorted combo, the item indexes are shifted by one on Win9X machines.
8668	The scrolling speed on sliding tabbed bands is not consistent.
8632	When dragging and resizing a floating band, there are some repaint issues.
8583	GetToolFromPosition fires an error if you are not hovering over a tool.
8534	Band is growing when setting the width equal to itself.
8483	ComboBox will not a show blank line when selected.
8481	The ReleaseFocus method is not functioning correctly.
8476	If you disable a child form's close button, the button will become enabled again after the form is maximized.
8451	On floating ToolBars, the titlebar text is painting past the close button.
8434	If you set Enabled to false and load layout changes, setting Enabled to true does not work as expected.
8340	When a sliding tabbed band is docked left or right, its TextBox and ComboBox tools are not visible until they receive focus.
8284	Run-Time error with Save/LoadLayoutChanges when the layout contains a Window List Tool on a toolbar.
8159	Scrolling in the sliding tabbed Band containing ActiveX controls causes the controls to overlap.
8095	Using .NewIndex doesn't work as expected because the indexes change when the CBStyle is changed.
7964	When moving the mouse over label in the StatusBar, the text shifts and paints over the resize handle.
7814	When ActiveBar is on a form that is docked in a band, it is not resizing when the band is resized.
7664	In C++ occasionally when quickly displaying nested menus, the tool with a SubBand assigned disappears.
7465	When using SaveLayoutChanges disabled buttons become very faint.
7400	Dll events quit firing after opening the customize dialog in ActiveBar or call the PopupMenu method.
7326	When the ComboBox list is displayed up towards the top of the screen and the CBWidth property is set to a large value, the list will close when trying to scroll the items.
7207	When the user creates a New Toolbar through the Customize dialog, the new toolbar's Band Open event should fire when the band is displayed.
7119	When XPLook is set to true, images assigned to labels on the StatusBar should not react to the mouse.
7102	DropDown Buttons do not draw correctly when placed on a Popup Menu Band.
7070	An empty popup is showing if there are no tools in the MoreTools popup menu.
7024	Dynamically created menu disappears when closing a child form after rebuilding the MDI menu.
7016	When the arrow on a DropDown Button is clicked and XPLook is true, the popup menu is shifted to the right.
7015	After clicking on the expand button on an MRU popup menu, the menu expands but does have some repaint issues.
6996	Image paints incorrectly for Dropdown tools when the caption position is set to left.
6991	If a label's AutoSize property is set to both and the label is on a StatusBar, it is cutoff by the resize handle.
6984	Get jagged edges when XPLook is set to True and you move your mouse up and down over a popup menu.
6975	If you have a VB ComboBox on a dockable form, the drop down list will immediately close when the arrow is clicked.
6811	When using a VB Timer, ActiveBar is not resizing correctly.
6789	ComboBox scrollbar and scrolling arrows not working correctly.
6788	ComboSelChange is not firing for items over halfway down the ComboBox when form is not maximized.
6696	In customize mode the some tool captions are shifting and/or disappearing when clicking on them if they have a SubBand assigned.
6668	Project crashes when setting the Tool index to an invalid value.
6637	If you have a dropdown tool on a band, the band displays as 1 to 2 pixels bigger than the other bands that do not have dropdown tools.
6631	Tools with the CaptionStyle set to text are not displaying correctly if the tool has a SubBand assigned and XPLook is true.
6621	When highlighted, some MenuBar SubBand tools do not display a caption.
6614	When a ToolBar has the Sizer flag on, after you increase the height/width, the ToolBar will not return to its original size.
6612	When XPLook is true, if you try to copy an image using SetPicture and GetPicture, the black in the image becomes transparent.
6610	Shortcuts on the Add/Remove Buttons menu do not display correctly.
6594	When turning off the Hide flag the right-click customize doesn't work anymore.
6578	When XPLook is true, the band background color should be slightly lighter than the actual system color.
6571	When the form is maximized you can not dock a band to the left or right.
6550	Problem with nested menus displayed using the PopupMenu method.
6515	Shortcuts are not visible when UseUnicode and XPLook are true and the Enabled property is false.
6510	If you display a popup menu using the PopupMenu method and then display the same popup menu from a tool, the menu will be paint too far to the right.
6476	When XPLook is false and UseUnicode is true, the shortcut forecolor is incorrect.
6375	Occasionally a double arrow will be displayed the first time you click the MoreTools arrow when XPLook is true.
6305	Program hangs when hovering over the close button on a maximized MDI child form for a second or two before clicking it.
6286	When XPLook is true, if you change the tool image at run-time, when you hover over the tool the original image is displayed.
6275	Problems changing the docking area from float to left in designer.
6263	When UseUnicode is true, shortcut keys do not paint correctly on menus.
6007	Dockable forms are not resizing correctly after floating.
5980	If you remove a band in the Band Close event, the project will become non-responsive.
5931	Child forms can be minimized after setting a child form's MinButton property to false.
5928	When the GrabHandle is set to caption, the titlebar forecolor should be black.
5923	While in customize mode, if you drop a tool between two DropDown buttons then remnants of the image are left on the screen until the application is shut down.
5921	The resize handle on the StatusBar doesn't work correctly on a multiple monitor systems.
5911	When hovering over a band to size it or move it with the GrabHandle the cursor flickers.
5871	When an ActiveBar ComboBox and a hosted VB TextBox are on the same ToolBar, you are not able to navigate through the text using the left and right arrow keys.
5731	The minimize/restore/close buttons of a maximized MDI child form are too small.
5715	ActiveBar is not following the system colors as expected when XPLook is set to true.
5709	When a ComboBox is SortedReadOnly it returns the wrong index and text.
5708	After changing the XPLook property, the MenuBar does not paint correctly when minimizing and maximizing a child form
5668	Displaying a context menu on the right edge of a multi-monitor system causes the menu to display on the wrong monitor. Also, on a multi-monitor system if you drag a floating band from right to left, the band becomes non-responsive.
5622	Crash when adding shortcuts through the designer on Win98 or Win95.
5604	When a dropdown button has its Checked property set to true it does not paint correctly.
5593	On Win98 machines the menu shadow is blue instead of the standard grey. Note: This issues has been improved. However, because Windows 95, 98, and ME do not support layered windows, the menus are not going to look the same as they do on Windows NT, 2000, and XP.
5572	Randomly the accelerator keys will stop working on WinME, Win98, and WinNT.
5567	When using LoadLayoutChanges with disabled icons, in some instances the icons disappear.
5547	When hovering over a DropDown button with the CaptionStyle set to icon and text, the image is not drawn correctly.
5517	Separators are painting incorrectly when XPLook is set to true and a caption is specified.
5512	Labels should not have a border when XPLook is true and the label is on a MenuBar.
5481	Wrong tool being called in the ToolClick event when focus is in a ComboBox or TextBox and you click on another tool.
5176	Shortcuts are not firing correctly when a UserControl contains ActiveBar and that UserControl is on two child forms.
5160	When XPLook is true, the caption and close button do not paint correctly for floating bands.
5137	TextChange event fires each time you delete a character, but it does not fire when deleting the last character of the string.
5088	When navigating a MenuBar with the keyboard, focus is being given to separator tools.
5087	Takes two clicks to set focus to another control or application.
5085	The Band Close event for the popEditTool menu fires twice.
4975	After disabling a child form's close button, it will become enabled again when the child form is maximized.
4784	Cannot set the SelStart and SelLength properties of ComboBox or TextBox.
4642	ActiveBar is not keeping the DockedVertHeight for bands docked to the left or right when you undock a band that is docked to the top or bottom.
4627	After loading layout changes, the time label will stop working.
4339	When you have a form with a UserControl containing ActiveBar, if you display the form modally, the owner form doesn't receive the focus back when the modal form is unloaded.
4276	When quickly selecting an item from a ComboBox list, sometimes the ComboSelChange event does not fire.
4243	An extra border is being placed around dockable forms.
4033	When pressing Shift+F10, the WM_KEYDOWN message for F10 is never received.
3934	Shortcut keys are truncated when using a large menu font.
3804	Popup menus are truncating off the screen when using 800x600 resolution.
2707	Cannot assign shortcut Alt+Enter at runtime or design time, but you can in the customize dialog.
2433	In the Customize dialog, after adding and then deleting a New Toolbar, the Rename and Delete Buttons are not disabled.
2125	The TextChange event is incorrectly firing when clicking in a TextBox with no text.
1546	ToolKeyPress event does not fire when the Enter key is pressed.
1474	When an ActiveBar TextBox or ComboBox has focus, if you press the Enter key the default sound will play.
1095	SelLength is returning the cursor position instead of the number of selected characters.
1080	On SDI forms, ActiveBar should not be offset when a PictureBox is aligned to the left and AB is aligned to the top.
708	When the Form.MousePointer is changed to an hourglass (or anything else) and the mouse is moved over ActiveBar it changes back to the default arrow. Note: Use the ActiveBar Enabled property.

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ActiveBar 3.0 Evaluation Version

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01-25-2006, 2:34 PM

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