Providing toolbars for macros

Making macros user-friendly : Providing toolbars for macros

Providing toolbars for macros

A toolbar provides a basic interface that enhances the user’s experience with your macro solution. Toolbars are useful because their buttons are memorable even if small, and because those buttons can be set to display meaningful captions and helpful tooltips.

Designing toolbars for macros

When creating toolbars, you should plan carefully. Having multiple small toolbars containing a few related buttons is better than having one big toolbar containing all of the buttons for all of your macros. By breaking your buttons into small groups, it is much easier to deploy them with the projects to which they belong.

For more information, see the following procedures:

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To create a macro toolbar

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To add buttons to a macro toolbar

Associating images or icons with macros

Macro commands can have an image or icon associated with them. This image or icon can be displayed or hidden on toolbars and menus, and it can be sized as small (16 × 16 pixels), medium (32 × 32 pixels), or large (48 × 48 pixels).

For more information, see the following procedure:

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To associate an image or icon with a macro

Setting captions and tooltips for macros

Each macro can have both a caption and a tooltip. The caption is displayed whenever the menu command is used and can be displayed as part of a button, while the tooltip appears when the pointer hovers over the button or menu item.

For more information, see the following procedures:

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To set a caption for a macro

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To set a tooltip for a macro