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Enterprise Architect => General Board => Topic started by: warlord on April 06, 2006, 06:58:42 am

Title: Toolbar - Package Control
Post by: warlord on April 06, 2006, 06:58:42 am

Hi,

Is it anyhow possible to create a toolbar in EA containing some of the Package Control functions.

Thanks in advance
Claude

Title: Re: Toolbar - Package Control
Post by: «Midnight» on April 06, 2006, 10:10:46 am

No, but sort of yes, assuming that you want to do this from the UI...

I don't think there is any way you can create your own (new) toollbars. You might want to look at the various available bars and either:

• Add the buttons you want to one of these, or
  
• Substitute the buttons you want for those on a toolbar you use rarely if ever.

Of course these options assume that the functions you want are available as buttons someplace, or that they are menu selections. I do not think you can create new buttons from within the UI.

You may be able to accomplish this through a fairly simple add-in. [I think you can create a toolbar via an add-in with EA; you can in most other applications that use this model.] Just limit your add-in to creating the necessary tool bar and buttons. Tie these into standard functions within EA - which seems to be what you are talking about - by calling the appropriate menu item routines. Since you have to activate your add-in somehow this is little extra work, and minimal debugging (compared to 'new' functionality).

HTH, David