ArcPad Toolbar Manager
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The ArcPad Toolbar Manager allows you create or modify a toolbar configuration file (eg ArcPad.apx etc.) without the need of ArcPad Studio. To launch the ArcPad Toolbar Manager, go to Start > All Programs > ArcGIS > ArcPad 8.0 > ArcPad Toolbar Manager. When the application starts, it is presented with the following screen:

To create a new toolbar file, click on the 'New' button and the following screen appears.

You will be prompted to create a file name for your new toolbar. The default location for toolbar files is My Documents > My ArcPad. The default file name is ArcPad.apx.

Tip
If you create a new file name for your toolbars, the default file name can be changed within ArcPad (on the General tab of the Options dialog).The toolbar configuration file path is stored in the ArcPadPref.apx

Once you click Save, the following window appears.

All the available tools are located on the left hand side, and you can build your toolbar(s), submenus and Quick Action button on the right hand side.

The available tools are added by the drag and drop process as described below.

  1. New toolbars are created by dragging and dropping the Toolbar tool to the right hand window.
  2. Tool buttons are added by dragging tools and dropping them onto a toolbar.
  3. Sub menus are created by dragging tools and dropping them on an existing tool button.
  4. Toolbars and sub menus are modified by either dragging tool buttons and menu items to reposition, or by dragging them out of the window to delete them
  5. Dragging one tool to the Quick Action button, will create a single click Quick Action button in ArcPad that will perform that one tool action.
  6. Dragging multiple tools to the Quick Action button, will turn the Quick Action button into a menu, listing all of the tools.

The screenshot below displays the toolbars that are provided in the default ArcPad.apx. You can can use the default ArcPad.apx as your starting point, and remove or add tools as you wish.

The Quick Action button

The Quick Action button in ArcPad can behave as either:

  1. a primary action button
  2. a primary menu button

If only one tool is assigned to the Quick Action button, then clicking the button in ArcPad performs the action of that one tool. If you have one action in ArcPad that you perform above all others (say, point capture) assigning this tool to the Quick Action button can make user training easy ("Just click the big ArcPad button")

If more than one tool is assigned to the Quick Action button, then clicking the button in ArcPad displays a menu. The default ArcPad.apx has a number of tools assigned to the Quick Action button, so that when you click the Quick Action button, you will see the following: