TapBar is a multi-purpose button manager. You can think about TapBar as a Newton version of Macintosh's Control Strip. With it, you can set up button bars made up of your favorite selection in your own order and layout. The bar can be shrunk and make it compact when you don't need it. TapBar also allows you to add buttons into status bar of Notes (or your selected backdrop applet).
You can make multiple bars, and each bar has its own setting of button set. For instance, you may have a bar named "Preferences Bar" which has only preferences related buttons such as backlight control or system volume. You can do your task quickly and easily if buttons with same theme are in one group. The appearence of each bar can be set deferently. This may help you to distinguish with them.
TapBar itself is just an interface to other buttons, that will be made by other developers, freeware authers, or even you. For programmers, TapBar has an open API that allows you to write your own buttons and even create your own commercial button suite!
TapBar is basically Freeware. Anybody can download the latest TapBar software from my homepage without fee. It may be distributed to other online services provided that the TabBar applet and all documentation is distributed as a single package without modifications.
If you are a developer and want to include TapBar software into your package, you need to pay one-time license fee to the auther. Contact to basuke@siesta.co.jp for more detail.
If you are a CD-ROM publisher which includes many Freeware/Shareware softwares, and want to include TapBar package, you need to send me one free copy of that CD-ROM. Don't let me pay even shipping fee. I never parmit without this requirements. Also contact to basuke@siesta.co.jp for more detail.
TapBar Homepage
Released date: 7/19/98.