| Ever wish you could to a particular option or mode more quickly? Would you like to have your own static toolbar with a set of buttons you use all the time? In this example, see how you can put Draw's powerful and customizable user interface to work for you by building your own Snap-Mode toolbar. The process for creating and customizing toolbars in PhotoPaint is exactly the same. |
Create a new toolbar In the Toolbars dialog box, click the "New" button. Enter a name for the new toolbar. In this example, "Snaps" is a good name, because this toolbar will hold buttons for setting the snap modes on or off. |
Enter the user customization
mode Draw is now in a special mode. All the toolbars and toolbar buttons can be moved around and changed in almost any way. On the left hand side of the dialog box, you will see a categorized list of all the commands that can be added to a toolbar. The next step is to find the interface commands we want and literally drag them onto the new toolbar. We will add the commands "Snap to Grid," "Snap to Guidelines" and "Snap to Objects" to the Snaps toolbar. |
Drag each command to the new
toolbar |
Using your new
toolbar |
Customize further Once again, you can put Draw's powerful user interface to work for you. You've seen how to customize your own toolbars. Now learn how to customize each button! Right-click on the Snaps toolbar and choose "Customize..." (just like we did before). For each button in the toolbar, right-click it to change its "properties."With this dialog box, you can fine-tune the look of any toolbar button in the Draw interface. In our case, it might be nice if each button just said what it does. Click "Show text" at the top of the dialog box to make the button do this automatically. Draw suggests a title based on the command to which the button is mapped. Since we already know these buttons relate to snap modes, we'll just shorten the text to "Grid," "Guides" and "Objects." The last button, with its international 'no' symbol, is pretty easy to understand. We can leave it alone. You can also rearrange the order of the buttons. |
Advantages Increase
the Drawing Area by Docking Toolbars on the Side |
Other considerations |