Hi,

Here are some tips that can help :

* Do you have admin rights on your machine ? If not, try with an admin machine. DebugBar should be registered on non admin machines, but I've got some reports for users where it is not working sometimes.

* Do you have "DebugBar" on the View/Toolbars menu ? If it is grayed, this is because the add-ons is disabled. You can enable the add-on and should be able to open DebugBar.

Which OS and IE version are you using ?

Thanks.

levseltzer wrote:

I do not see the debug bar, not do I have an option to display this toolbar.

+1

fabrice wrote:

Do you have admin rights on your machine ?

Yes, I have

fabrice wrote:

Do you have "DebugBar" on the View/Toolbars menu ?

No, Only in View/Explorer bar

fabrice wrote:

Which OS and IE version are you using ?

Windows 2000 SP4 + Russian MUI, MS IE 6.0.2800.1106 (Rus)

@Vandal: There is a bug in DebugBar v5.0; This version needs gdiplus.dll for the toolbar component. I sent you the dll by email. This should correct your problem.
I will correct this problem on the next release.

@Max: There are several add-ons for DebugBar, be sure to have all "DebugBar ..." items in the add-ons manager enabled. I don't see any reason why the DevBar does not show, that is really strange.
You can try to install again DebugBar (maybe registration was not ok for the DevBar component), and logoff/logon maybe IE has not refreshed its cache (I don't think so, but let's try that...)

Re: DevBar not showing.

Both components are enabled. Tried deinstalling, reinstalling & registering again, rebooting, etc.: same thing, no err msg or anything. The other buttons like ViewSrc, Color are there and OK.

There must be some quirk in my sys, I also tried IE Dev Toolbar and button shows but nothing happens.

Pls give me an idea where to look in IE config.  FF is my def browser,  gdiplus 5.1 is installed...

@wysocki: That is really really strange. Do you see "DebugBar" entries in the "View/toolbar" or "View/explorer bar" menu ?
I just tried on a fresh XPSP2 IE6 install and it is working on my side. Do you have other IE add-ons installed ? Do you have admin rights on the machine when installing DebugBar ?

@Max: Your problem is also really strange. Do you have some security setup on your machine ? Do you have have some entreprise anti-virus installed on your machine ?

Ahh! I still don't see anything in view/toolbar, but view/explorerbar DOES have it. And it works! Can't figure out why there's no toolbar though. In fact, I thought I would have also had an Acrobat toolbar there since I have Acrobat 8 full version installed, but it's not there either. What could cause blocking of toolbars being listed there?

Just thought I'd chime in - I'm having the same problem as Max.  That is, I press the DebugBar button and the DevBar doesn't show up.  I'm running IE 7.0.5730.11 on XP SP2.  I installed as local admin, but I'm running as an unpriveleged user.  For what it's worth, a coworker of mine is doing exactly the same thing, except using IE6, and it works just fine.  Our environments are exactly the same otherwise.

edit:  Just checked to see if DebugInfoBar.dll is loaded into iexplore.exe, and it is.

Last edited by bhagany (2008-04-14 15:10:51)

Ah, yes, running as admin works.  I'll use that as a workaround for now, but they kind of discourage that kind of thing around here.  I appreciate you taking the time for a custom dll - let me know when you have a chance to get around to it.

Thanks,
Brent

@bhagany : Can you try to install again DebugBar using your standard user account ? This may work.

I also checked other toolbars, like Google Toolbar, and they have the same problem. Installing as admin and then using the toolbars in a standard account is not working :-(

I'm always logged in as Administrator. IE6 under SP2 DOES have the manage add-ons and Debugbar was enabled. Although I had Acrobat toolbar also in the list, IT did not appear under the view menu either. As a test, I installed the Google toolbar then Debugbar and others suddenly were visible under the view menu. I removed the Google toolbar and everything else is still there. So it's fixed now, but I don't know why the toolbars didn't show up under view in the first place.

Unfortunately, I don't have any ideas of what can cause the problem.

Do you also have Companion.JS installed ? Does it shows the panel at the bottom of IE ?