The iFIX WorkSpace provides toolbars with buttons that provide access to frequently-used functions, such as creating pictures and starting iFIX applications. You can customize the toolbars by arranging or removing these buttons as needed. Typically, you should remove buttons that you do not need. For example, if you set up a workstation dedicated to creating pictures and Dynamo objects, you may want to remove the New Schedule button from the Standard toolbar.
Once you remove a button, you can always add it back. Adding a button requires you to select a toolbar category. A toolbar category is a logical grouping of buttons. For example, the Standard category contains the buttons on the Standard WorkSpace toolbar and the CreateObjects category contains the buttons on the Shapes toolbar.
The iFIX WorkSpace provides many toolbar categories from which you can select buttons. These categories cannot be renamed or deleted. Likewise, the buttons in these categories cannot be modified or deleted. However, you can modify any button you add to a toolbar. The WorkSpace treats the added button as a copy of the original and lets you modify the new button in the toolbar with the Visual Basic Editor. Any changes to the copy do not affect the original.
Docking Toolbars
In addition to adding, removing, and arranging buttons, you can customize a toolbar by enabling or disabling a toolbar's docking option. When enabled, this option lets you dock a toolbar by dragging it to any edge of the screen. To keep the toolbar floating regardless of its screen position, you can disable the option.
NOTE: In Ribbon view, toolbars cannot be docked.
Resetting Toolbars
You can restore any standard iFIX toolbar to its default state using the Reset button. Typically, these toolbars should be reset if you have customized the standard toolbars and you want to undo these changes. When you reset a toolbar, the WorkSpace:
- Deletes any custom buttons you have added.
- Adds any standard buttons you have deleted.
- Resets the toolbar's docking option back to its default state. This means if you reset a toolbar that has the docking option disabled, the WorkSpace enables the option.
- Moves the toolbar back to its default screen position. Consequently, if you reset a floating toolbar that is docked by default the toolbar, the WorkSpace docks the toolbar when you reset it.
NOTE: Resetting a standard toolbar does not affect any custom toolbar you have created.
