Customizing a toolbar

Chapter 9 Customizing your Modeling Environment

Customizing a toolbar

You can customize the PowerDesigner toolbars according to your needs.

The customization options are the following:

Option	Description
Show Tooltip	Activates or deactivates the display of small pop-up windows that provide descriptive labels for a control or graphic object
Flat button	Toggles the display of buttons between flat and 3D
Customize	Opens the toolbar customization dialog box in which you can select icons corresponding to commands of the PowerDesigner menus

Grouping related tools on a toolbar

You can group related tools on a toolbar by adding a separator bar before the first and after the last one in the group to distinguish the group from other tools on the toolbar.

To do so, right-click the tool before which you want to add a separator bar and select Begin Group.

Custom Graphic tools category

The Custom Graphic Tools category lets you define custom tools for stereotyped objects, as defined in extended model definitions.

For more information, see "Extended Model Definitions" in the Resource Files and the Public Metamodel chapter of the Customizing and Extending PowerDesigner manual.

To customize a toolbar:

Select Tools→Customize Toolbars to display the Toolbars dialog box.

Select a toolbar in the list of toolbars.

Select or clear the customization check boxes in the lower part of the dialog box.

Click the Customize button to open the Customize Toolbars window.

Select a menu category in the Categories pane.

The tools corresponding to the menu commands appear in the right pane of the window, with a description in the lower part of the window.

Select the tool you want to add, drag it to the desired toolbar, and release the mouse button.

The tool is inserted into the target toolbar.

Click Close in each of the dialog boxes.

Restoring the default settings of a toolbar

You can restore the default settings of a customized toolbar using the Reset button in the Toolbars dialog box.

If you want to reset the default settings of all toolbars you have to click the Reset All button.