Edit Tool Icons
To edit a selected toolbar icon, click the Edit button in the Tool Properties pane, next to
CData (icon) or right-click the Toolbar Layout and select Edit Icon from the context
menu. The Icon Editor opens with the tool’s CData loaded into it. For information about
editing icons, see “Use the Icon Editor” on page 6-103.
Edit Toolbar Properties
If you click an empty part of the toolbar or click the Toolbar Properties tab, you can edit
two of its properties:
- Tag — The internal name for the toolbar
- Visible — Whether the toolbar is displayed in your UI
The Tag property is initially set to uitoolbar1. The Visible property is set to on.
When on, the Visible property causes the toolbar to be displayed on the UI regardless
of the setting of the figure’s Toolbar property. If you want to toggle a custom toolbar as
you can built-in ones (from the View menu), you can create a menu item, a check box, or
other control to control its Visible property.
To access nearly all the properties for the toolbar in the Property Inspector, click More
Properties.
Test Your Toolbar
To try out your toolbar, click the Run button in the Layout Editor. The software asks if you
want to save changes to its .fig file first.
Remove a Toolbar
You can remove a toolbar completely—destroying it—from the Toolbar Editor, leaving your
UI without a toolbar (other than the figure toolbar, which is not visible by default). The
are two ways to remove a toolbar:
- Click the Remove button on the right end of the toolbar.
- Right-click a blank area on the toolbar and select Remove Toolbar from the context
menu.
If you remove all the individual tools in the ways shown in “Remove Tools” on page 6-100
without removing the toolbar itself, your UI will contain an empty toolbar.
Create Toolbars for GUIDE UIs