Customize Toolbars/fr

Synopsis
This tutorial walks you through how to create a Toolbar button and one or more buttons that connect you to your favourite macros or to other associated links whether there a custom icon or not.

Use
1 : Click Menu → Tools → Customize



or put you on a Toolbar and click the right mouse button



the window Customize appears



2 : select the tab Macro

3 : to select an toolbar icon for your macro click the Pixmap button (labelled )



4 : search for an icon amongst the icons already in FreeCAD,

5 : if your icon is not here then click the button for adding one or more icons in your library (collapse to see)



5b : you will get a file selection window, select your image file which must be in the PNG format and must be 64x64 pixels



6 : select your icon and click the button



7 : the icon you selected is now displayed next to the Pixmap button labelled



8 : Choose your macro and specify a Menu text (which will appear as the text label in the menu); also fill in the Tool Tip (which is the text that will appear when a mouse is over the button on the toolbar); there are other optional fields for your Button

9 : Click the button



10 : your button is created



11 : create a Toolbar for the button

12 : click the tab Toolbars and your workbench (here Part)



13 : in left window select the Tab Macros and "Macros"



14 : now your macro and it's icon appears



15 : Click the button (you can choose your ToolBar here the ToolBar is attached to the Part Workbench)



16 : in the window "New Toolbar" enter the name for your ToolBar and click



17 : your ToolBar has now been created - make sure you check the checkbox so the toolbar will actually appear

18 : select your macro with it's icon in the left window and then click the with the right pointing arrow



19 : you have now created a toolbar called "Camera"

20 : click the button



21 : your new ToolBar with it's button is now both displayed above the active window as well as the right-click menu from the toolbars



22 : enjoy !