Toolbar Customization
in IntelliCAD

To create a new toolbar, simply select the category of existing toolbars that you wish to use and drag (click and hold down the left mouse button) the desired button from the listed buttons in the dialogue box to a vacant area of your drawing screen. A new toolbar will be created containing the new button.

To add another button to an existing find the button required from the appropriate category and drag it into the target toolbar. The target toolbar can be either docked or floating.

As you drag a button into an existing toolbar a black bar will appear next to the button nearest your cursor, the new button will be dropped on the opposite side of this bar.

You can add buttons as a flyout to an existing button in a toolbar by clicking on the "Insert as flyout" check box. The dropped button will then be created as a flyout beneath that button.

IntelliCAD includes some custom buttons which require the command to be defined behind their click action. These are under the Custom Toolbar category and can be dragged and dropped as previously described.

If you need to re-define the command that is behind each button. Click on the button to be changed and enter the Tooltip in the appropriate edit box. Add the Help String and finally the command itself. If you wish this new command to cancel the previous command don’t forget to add the ^C^C^C prefix to the command.

OK, ^C is the cancel command, but why three of them? New commands that you add to menus and toolbars should always commence by canceling any command that might already be in progress (unless they can be satisfactorily initiated while another command is in progress). Because commands can have nested levels, it may be necessary to cancel out of more than one level.  In IntelliCAD, the maximum depth of command nesting is three levels. By prefacing a new command with three ^Cs, you can be sure that you will always be completely out of any command that could possibly be in progress before starting a new command.

After your toolbar(s) has been created or customized to your liking, select the Close button. By clicking on the Close button IntelliCAD will write the toolbar definitions into the Windows registry.

To give the newly defined toolbar a name, right click in the toolbar. A list of all the toolbars will appear. At the bottom of the list Toolbar-1 is the default name for the new toolbar. Select Toolbars… from this menu to display the Toolbar dialogue box, scroll down and select the Toolbar-1 item and type in your preferred name in the Toobar Name edit box and OK.

Select  Customize and the Toolbar tab then the Import… button. Check the Append to existing Toolbars box. Browse and open the menu file containing the Toolbars. Close Customize and re-arrange the toolbars around your drawing editor.