Customizing a Toolbar by Dragging and Dropping

You can customize toolbars by adding or removing commands according to your needs.

Before you begin:
  • The View toolbar cannot be customized.
  • Local commands cannot be dropped onto global toolbars (e.g. you cannot drag and drop the Pad command onto the Standard toolbar): a symbol is displayed to indicate that this action is forbidden.
  • It is not recommended to drag and drop a V6 icon onto another application (e.g. Microsoft Word, etc.): the dropped icon disappears from your session and the only way to restore it is to select Tools > Customize... then follow the steps detailed in this task.
Related Topics
About Toolbar Icons

  1. Select Tools > Customize... or right-click any icon in any toolbar then select Customize....



    Important:
    • In the Toolbars tab, double-clicking any icon highlights the toolbar the icon belongs to in the toolbars list.

      Double-clicking any toolbar also highlights the toolbar name, allowing you to identify it. However, you must double-click the bottom of the toolbar for toolbars displayed in the bottom part of the workbench (such as the Standard toolbar) and you must double-click the right part of the toolbar for toolbars displayed on the right side of the workbench. Otherwise, double-clicking the toolbar undocks it but does not highlight its name in the list.

    • Double-clicking an undocked toolbar redocks it at the place where it has been previously docked (if relevant).
    • Toolbars that have never been redocked using drag and drop are displayed in a docking bar in their creation order. When such toolbars are undocked then redocked, they are restored to the same position in the list of toolbars attached to the docking bar. Note that:
      • The positions and statuses of toolbars stored in releases prior to R18 cannot be inherited.
      • Toolbars are managed workbench per workbench which means that their positions are different from one workbench to another.

  2. In the Customize dialog box, click the Commands tab to list the commands available.

    The Categories list allows you to filter the listed commands by category: the category is the name of the menu in the menu bar.

    For example, selecting the Help category in the Categories list displays in the commands list all the commands likely to appear on the Help menu:



    The category All Commands lists all commands available for the workshop you are working in as well as global commands (e.g. Open, Save, etc.).

    If you created macros, the macro names are also listed. You can then add macros to a toolbar.

  3. Select a category then a command from the list.

    In our example, Tools then Capture... have been selected:



    Note: The command icon is displayed at the bottom of the dialog box, along with a short help message explaining the role of the icon.

  4. Drag the command from the list to the toolbar to which you want to add the command.

  5. Drop the command onto the desired toolbar.

    In our example, the icon for the Image Capture... command has been added to the Standard toolbar:



    Warning: This does not apply to icon boxes which cannot be customized.

  6. Optional: To delete a command from a toolbar using the drag-and-drop mechanism, drag the command and drop it back inside the list of commands in the Customize dialog box.

    You can also drag and drop commands which do not have icons: in this case, the command name appears in the toolbar. Your customization is stored automatically in the FrameConfig.CATSettings file: you recover it if you exit then restart. For more information, see About Settings.