How to add a button to the DXCore Visualize toolbar
September 17th, 2010
To place a new button on the DXCore Visualize toolbar, all you need to do is to add a new DXCore Action component on your plug-in design surface, and adjust its ToolbarItem properties group:
Here’s the ToolbarItem properties description table:
| Property Name | Description |
| BeginGroup | Indicates whether a button should start a new group of buttons (add a separator before this button). |
| ButtonIsPressed | Boolean state of the button (up or down, pressed or unpressed). |
| Caption | Caption (hint) describing a button on the Visualize toolbar. |
| Image | Image used to represent a button on the Visualize toolbar. |
| Index | Index (position) of the button on the Visualize toolbar. |
| PlaceIntoToolbar | Indicates whether to place this action as a new button to the Visualize toolbar. |
At least three properties of the Action must be initialized: PlaceIntoToolbar, Image, and Caption (optional):
That’s it. After that your new button appears on the DXCore Visualize toolbar. Don’t forget to handle the Execute event of the Action to perform some actions when the button is clicked:
