Customize Dialog

The Toolbars tab defines which toolbars are visible on the user interface and enables you to create custom toolbars.

• Toolbars: Lists all of the default and custom BarTender toolbars. To hide a toolbar in the application, click to clear the toolbar check box. To show a toolbar in the application, click to select the toolbar check box.

• New: Creates a custom toolbar. For more information, refer to Creating New Toolbars.

• Rename: Renames the selected custom toolbar. You can rename only custom toolbars. The default BarTender toolbars cannot be renamed.

• Delete: Deletes the selected custom toolbar. You can delete only custom toolbars. The default BarTender toolbars cannot be deleted.

• Reset: Deletes all custom toolbars and relocates the default toolbars to their original position on the user interface. The Reset button does not reset to a factory default setting. It resets to the original settings of the current BarTender session.

The Commands tab enables you to add and remove buttons and commands from toolbars and custom menus and to create custom menus on default or custom toolbars. These toolbar buttons and menu commands are collectively referred to as commands.

• Categories: Lists the BarTender main menus and categories of commands that you may want to add to a custom toolbar.

• Commands: Lists the buttons and menu commands that are associated with each category.

The Keyboard tab enables you to add keyboard shortcuts to BarTender menu commands and toolbar buttons.

• Category: Lists BarTender's main menu categories, design tools and text commands.

• Commands: Lists the commands that are associated with the selected category and which enable keyboard assignment customization.

• Key assignments: Lists any keyboard shortcuts that are associated with the selected command.

• Press new shortcut key: Enables you to enter a new keyboard shortcut for the selected command.

• Assign: Assigns the keyboard shortcut that you entered to the selected command.

• Remove: Deletes the keyboard shortcut that is currently selected in the Key assignments list.

• Reset All: Deletes all custom keyboard shortcuts and returns all commands to their default key assignments.

The Options tab defines the general appearance of screen tips and toolbars.

Personalized Menus and Toolbars

• Always show full menus: Specifies whether all menu commands or just a partial list appear when you open the menu.

• Show full menus after a short delay: Specifies whether all menu commands appear after a short pause.

• Reset menu and toolbar usage data: Erases the menu and toolbar change history. The memory is reset to the starting values of the current BarTender session.

Other

• Large Icons: Specifies that the toolbar buttons are displayed as large icons.

• Show ScreenTips on toolbars: Specifies that screen tips appear when the pointer hovers over a toolbar button.

• Show shortcut keys in ScreenTips: Specifies whether the available shortcut keys appear in the screen tips.

• Menu animations: Specifies the animation that is used to display the menu commands when you open a menu from the main menu bar or from a toolbar menu button.

The following list describes additional customizations that are available when the Customize dialog is open.

• You can open a context menu for each menu, menu command, and toolbar button. The context menu may include one or more of the following commands:

• Reset: Resets the menu, menu command, or toolbar button to its default state.

• Delete: Removes the menu, menu command, or toolbar button.

• Name: Displays the current menu or command name. To change the command name, click the input box to the right of Name. A graphical button will not display the new name unless you also select Text Only or Image and Text.

• Copy Button Image: Copies the button or menu command's image to the Clipboard.

• Paste Button Image: Pastes a copy of the button image to the selected toolbar button or menu command. Pasting a button image into another button replaces the existing image. Pasting a button image into a menu command pastes the image to the left of the menu item.

• Reset Button Image: Resets the selected image or command to its default image, if one exists.

• Edit Button Image: Opens the Button Editor dialog, where you can customize the button by using image editing tools.

• Change Button Image: This command is not currently supported.

• Default Style: Resets the command or button to its original default style if you have previously selected Text Only or Image and Text.

• Text Only: Specifies that only the value of the Name input box is displayed for the command or button. This option is available only when a command or button has an associated image.

• Image and Text: Specifies that both the image and the value of the Name input box are displalyed for the command or button. This option is available only when a command or button has an associated image.

• Begin a Group: Inserts a separator line in the toolbar or menu that defines a group or section of the toolbar or menu.

• You can drag buttons, commands, and custom menus to change their order on a toolbar or within a custom menu or to place them on another toolbar or custom menu. For more information, refer to Moving Buttons, Commands, and Custom Menus.

• You can drag buttons and commands away from default toolbars to hide them, or away from custom toolbars that you created to remove them. For more information, refer to Adding and Removing Buttons and Commands.