COXShortcutBar

Shortcut bar is a new control that emulates the one found in Microsoft Outlook and includes some additional functionality that puts it on the same level as CoolBars. Let me just remind you that CoolBars (aka ReBar control) operate as a container of child windows (e.g. Toolbars), that reside in bands, and provides the functionality to reposition these bands vertically and horizontally.

Shortcut bar also acts as a container of child windows. It uses a group paradigm to represent them. Every group consists of a header and a child window. Groups can be in an expanded or collapsed state. Only one group can be expanded at once. Correspondingly, only the child window of the expanded group will be shown. Only the headers of unexpanded groups will be shown. If at least one group is created in shortcut bar then there is always an expanded group in the control.

If the programmer does not specifiy a child window for their group then we have built in a default child window - special list control that entirely emulate one found in Microsoft Outlook.