Toolbar

A toolbar is a set of graphical widgets put around the canvas to provide actions on objects, canvas or documents.

List of all toolbars

• 3D Box Toolbar: a toolbar to draw or edit a 3D box shape
• Calligraphy Toolbar: a toolbar to draw lines with calligraphics effects
• Circle/Arc Toolbar: a toolbar to draw or edit circles, ellipses and curves
• Connector Toolbar
• Dropper Toolbar
• Eraser Toolbar: a toolbar to delete objects in the workspace
• Gradient Toolbar: a toolbar to edit the gradient of an object
• LPE Toolbar
• Measure Toolbar: a toolbar to measure distance between nodes, objects...
• Node Editing Toolbar: a toolbar to edit nodes of a path
• Paintbucket Toolbar: a toolbar to fill a shape with a specific color
• Pen/Pencil Toolbar: a toolbar to draw straight or not-straight lines
• Rect Toolbar: a toolbar used to draw or edit a rectangle with or whithout rounded corners
• Select Toolbar
• Spiral Toolbar: a toolbar to draw or edit a spiral
• Spray Toolbar: a toolbar to dupplicate an object in multiple clones with a spray effect
• Star Toolbar: a toolbar to draw or edit stars and polygons shapes
• Text Toolbar: a toolbar to create or edit font properties of a text object
• Tweak Toolbar: a toolbar to tweak objects
• Zoom Toolbar: a toolbar to zoom in, out and fit the viewing area of the workspace

Technical informations

Source files

All toolbars are implemented in following files:

• src/widgets/toolbox.cpp
• src/widgets/<name>-toolbar.cpp
• src/widgets/<name>-toolbar.h

Preferences

Some toolbar may need to store preferences and default values.

Preferences are stored:

• For shapes toolbar in /tools/shapes/<shape_name>
• For others in /tools/<toolbar_name>

Look at each toolbar page to see its parameters and where and how they are stored.

How do I add a new toolbar?

Coming soon if anyone can write this part...

How can I add/remove an action from an existing toolbar?

Coming soon if anyone can write this part...