Edit Toolbar Action Attributes

When you edit the attributes of a action/toolbar association, you can supply a icon, toolbar display text and a toolbar tooltip.

This panel can be used to configure all ten possible icons. When action/toolbar associations are made in the Action Manager, you can configure the single appropriate icon as well as the toolbar text and tooltip.

Note that Settings - File List - Toolbar Action Icons - Configure can be used to modify all ten action toolbar icons.

The panel displays three icons:

Default Icon

The built in icon. This is what gets displayed if never changed.

Current Icon

This is the icon that will currently be displayed. ie. Before any changes are made.

Apply Icon

This is the icon that will be displayed if changes are applied.

To change an icon, drag an image or image file to the target. The image displayed in the Apply column will be updated to the dragged item.

Note that the icons are not saved in the application settings. They are saved in a folder named:

~/Application Support/Yate/Icons

If you want to have the same icons on more than one Mac, you can always simply copy the folder which might be less work that changing the icons in more than one place.

When an image or image file is dragged to the target, the following occurs:

• It is resized down such that the largest of its width and height is 64 pixels. This is twice the size of a regular size icon on a toolbar. The doubling is to account for Retina displays.
• If not square, the image is squared and filled with a transparent background.
• The images are saved as PNG files named Action #.png

Note that the same transformations are applied when the icons are first read when the application starts.

You can specify what is to appear as the toolbar icon text (if displayed):

Default

The text will be Run action #.

Action name

The text will be the name of the action.

Specified

You Supply the text which will be displayed.

You can also optionally supply the text for the tooltip.

Prior to Yate v8.0, you could explicitly specify a portion of the action name to be used as the toolbar icon text by enclosing the desired text in square brackets. eg. Rename and [Move] files. While this will still work when Default is selected, the method is now deprecated. Setting the text in this panel is preferable as the action's name need not be modified. Changing the name of a resource action can mess up the action updater.

If you do not specify a tooltip, an attempt will be made to locate a Tooltip statement in the action.