Customizing Toolbars

Stylus Studio allows you to customize the appearance, location, and content of toolbars, and even to create toolbars of your own. This section covers the following topics:

Toolbar Groups

Toolbars are organized by functional group within Stylus Studio (Default, Edit, Source Control, and so on). Customizations available for these groups include

  • Show/hide
  • Look, feel, and size
  • Group position
  • Order (and members) of individual tools

Tip

 

Toolbars are docking windows - you can drag them anywhere on your desktop.

You control all these customizations from the Toolbars tab of the Customize dialog box.

Figure 99. Toolbars Tab of Customize Dialog Box

To display the Customize dialog box, select Tools > Customize from the menu.

Showing/Hiding Toolbar Groups

Toolbar groups are displayed by default. Use this procedure to hide/re-display them.

Tip

 

Consider maximizing Stylus Studio on your desktop in order to view as much of the toolbar as possible when making changes.

To hide/show a toolbar group:
1. Display the Customize dialog box ( Tools > Customize).
2. In the Toolbars group box, deselect the check box of the group you want to hide.

Figure 100. Hide Toolbars by Deselecting the Check Box

The toolbar is dropped from the Stylus Studio window.

3. To re-display a hidden toolbar group, reselect the check box.

Changing Toolbar Appearance

Changes you can make to the toolbar's appearance include

  • Whether or not to show tooltips when the mouse pointer is placed over a toolbar button
  • Whether toolbar buttons are rendered as buttons (the Cool Look) or flat panels
  • Whether toolbar buttons are rendered in a size larger than the default

Note

 

Appearance settings affect all toolbars. You cannot control the appearance of individual toolbar groups.

To modify toolbar appearance:
1. Display the Customize dialog box ( Tools > Customize).
2. Click Show Tooltips to toggle the display of tooltips when the pointer is placed over a toolbar button.
3. Click Cool Look to toggle the display of the toolbar between one that is rendered as buttons and one that is rendered as flat panels.
4. Click Large Buttons to toggle the size of the toolbar buttons.
5. Optionally, click the Reset button to restore default settings.
6. Click the OK button.

Adding and Removing Buttons

To add a button to a tool bar:
1. Display the Customize dialog box ( Tools > Customize).
2. Click the Command tab.
3. In the Categories field, click the group of buttons you want to rearrange (such as the Default group shown in Figure 101).

Figure 101. Command Tab Lets You Rearrange Toolbar Buttons

Stylus Studio displays the buttons in that group in the Buttons group box.

Tip

 

Click any button to display its description in the Description field.

4. Drag the button from the Buttons group box to the target location on the Stylus Studio toolbar.
5. Click a new category to rearrange buttons in that category, and click OK.
To remove a button from a toolbar, drag it off the toolbar.

Creating a New Toolbar

You can create your own toolbars, adding to them the buttons for the tools that you desire.

To create a toolbar:
1. Display the Customize dialog box ( Tools > Customize).
2. Click the New button.

Stylus Studio displays the New Toolbar dialog box.

Figure 102. New Toolbar Dialog Box

3. Enter a name for the toolbar in the Toolbar Name field and click the OK button.

Stylus Studio creates a new toolbar window.

Figure 103. New Toolbar Window

4. Click the Command tab in the Customize dialog box.
5. Select the toolbar group whose tools you wish to add to your new toolbar.
6. Drag the toolbar button from the existing toolbar to the new toolbar window.

Figure 104. Adding a Tool to a New Toolbar

7. Repeat step 5 and step 6 to add additional tools to the new toolbar.
8. When you are done, drag the new toolbar window to the Stylus Studio toolbar.
 
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