How to create a toolbar and how to deploy it

Dear All,

I need to add a new toolbar in Lotus Notes 7.x and to install this newly-created toolbar on all Lotus Notes clients machines of my customers.

This toolbar requires two buttons:

  • the first button is a pull-down button with two “sub-commands”: one must open a window with one label and a text area, the other one must open an internet browser -

  • the second button must open a “new calendar entry” window in Notes whose subject and body are already known -

Do you have a suggestion to help me in starting? Which language must I use? Any documents? Tips? Hints? Or useful internet links?

I have already done this implementation in JAVA for Lotus Notes 8.0 via an Eclipse plugin. But it seems that Eclipse plugins are not supported by Lotus Notes 7.x and earlier.

I would like to avoid the usage of C/C++ because the compilers are platform-dependent (unlike JAVA).

Thanks in advance for your help.

Mikaël.

Subject: RE: how to create a toolbar and how to deploy it

Toolbar article in The View. The sample download is free.