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5. Open the Tray Settings dialog box, re-enable Display Icons from Services, and
select Display Time and 5 seconds from the drop-down list.
The notification balloons now close automatically after 5 seconds.
6. Click OK.
Toolbars
Toolbars are some of the most commonly used user interface elements in a Windows-
based application. Toolbars allow you to quickly access commands from an organized
grouping of tools instead of using pull-down menus. A toolbar contains buttons that
you click to activate a command, and it has controls that allow you to select an option
from a drop-down list or enter text into a text box.
Some toolbars contain
flyouts, which have multiple tools on them that perform similar
tasks. A flyout on a toolbar is indicated by a button displaying a black arrow in the
lower-right corner of the button’s image.
Figure 1-5 shows the main parts of a toolbar.
You can dock toolbars along the edge of the application window, or you can have them
floating. The state that the toolbar is in doesn’t affect how the buttons and controls
work, but if a toolbar that contains a drop-down list is docked on the left or right side
of the application window, the control isn’t displayed. When a toolbar is docked, the
gripper bar is displayed at the top or left side of the toolbar based on how it’s docked;
if the toolbar is floating, a title bar appears at the top with the name of the toolbar.
Most people prefer toolbars to pull-down menus because they offer quick access to
commonly used commands, and toolbar icons make the commands easy to recognize.
AutoCAD comes with 37 toolbars, but you can create your own custom commands and
toolbars to access the commands that you use on a regular basis with ease. For more
information on creating your own custom commands and toolbars, see Chapter 3.
Exercise 1-7: Displaying, Hiding, and Repositioning a Toolbar
For this exercise, open a drawing (a new one or one from a previous exercise). Practice
displaying, hiding, and repositioning a toolbar.
1. Right-click any displayed toolbar and choose 3D Navigation from the shortcut
menu to display the 3D Navigation toolbar.
Toolbars that are currently displayed have a check mark next to them on the
shortcut menu, and the ones that are hidden don’t.
Title bar
Button
Flyout menu
Control
Close button
Gripper bar
Figure 1-5:
The differ-
ent types of
command
access
options that
are avail-
able on a
toolbar.
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