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Adding toolbar buttons

In the Add Button window, you can create a new button to launch an applet, play a macro, go to a specified URL, run an application, assign a keyboard function, or access basic menu items.

General steps for adding buttons: (For more information on individual button types, refer to the list below.)

  1. Select the type of button you wish to add from the list on the left.
  2. In the Toolbar Text field, type the text label you want to appear on the button.
  3. In the Description field, provide a description of the button function; this description will appear at the bottom of the Client window when the mouse rolls over the button.
  4. Select the icon for your button.
  5. Click Add to place your button on the toolbar.
Applet
Application
URL
Macro
File
Edit
View
Communication
Actions
Help
Keystroke

Applet
Type the full class name of the applet that you want Host On-Demand to launch when the button is clicked. You must follow the rules described in Run applet.

Application
According to your platform syntax, specify the full application path followed by any application parameters.

URL
Specify a URL address to open in your default browser.

Macro
You can create a button that plays a macro. If you specify a parameter list for the macro, the parameter list is saved as part of the button definition.

File
You can create a button to represent any option of the File menu.

Edit
You can create a button to represent any option of the Edit menu.

View
You can create a button to represent any option of the View menu.

Communication
You can create a button to represent any option of the Communication menu.

Actions
You can create a button to represent any option of the Actions menu.

Help
You can create a button to represent any option of the Help menu.

Keystroke
Assign a keyboard function (from the Characters, Host Functions, or Custom Functions categories) to a toolbar button.

Certain keyboard functions are predefined with Host On-Demand for remapping. The Custom Function Editor allows you to define and maintain new keyboard functions, called custom functions, without having to edit HTML and JavaScript files. These new functions may be assigned to a toolbar button.

On the Keystroke page, choose from a list of keystrokes to create a button. Then, when you select that button, it will function as if the assigned keys have been pressed.

This option does not appear on FTP sessions.


For more information on toolbar customization options, read Customize Toolbar.