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Properties for the Standard toolbar

Properties pane Description Example
item

tions are Do Not Add to Workspaces or Add to Work-

spaces.

Specifies whether the toolbar is floating or docked (top, Top

bottom, left, or right) the first time the CUIx file is loaded.

Orientation

Specifies the location from the left edge of the screen 0

when the toolbar appears when it is floating, or the loca-

Default X Location

tion when it is docked. If docked, a value of 0 indicates

the left most location in a docked area.

Specifies the location from the top edge of the screen 0

when the toolbar appears when it is floating, or the loca-

Default Y Location

tion when it is docked. If docked, a value of 0 indicates

the top most location in a docked area.

Specifies the number of rows the items on the toolbar 1

are displayed in when the toolbar is floating.

Rows

TB_STANDARD,

Standard

Specifies the aliases for the toolbar. Click the [ ] button

to open the Aliases dialog box. Each alias in the CUIx file

Aliases

should be unique and it is used to reference the toolbar

programmatically.

Element ID Tag that uniquely identifies a toolbar. ID_TbStandard

NOTEThe properties On By Default, Orientation, Default X Location, Default Y

Location, and Rows are used only the first time the CUIx file is loaded and when

no default workspace is set. After a toolbar is loaded the first time, a workspace is

used to control the Appearance properties of a toolbar. See the procedure To

change the properties of a toolbar on page 307 for more information.

When you create a new toolbar, the first task you need to do is to provide a

name for it. A new toolbar has no commands or controls assigned to it. If a

toolbar has no commands or controls on it, it is ignored by the program until

you add at least one command or control to it. You add commands and

controls to a toolbar by dragging a command or control from an existing

toolbar or the Command List pane and dropping it onto a toolbar. Once a

command or control has been added to a toolbar, you can change the text

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