Overview of ArcPad toolbars

ArcPad tools are organized onto four default toolbars. You can switch between toolbars by choosing a toolbar icon from the toolbar selector. As you choose the toolbar icon, you will see that the tools in the area below it also change. The four default toolbars:

Main toolbar
Browse toolbar
Edit toolbar
StreetMap toolbar

The Command bar is located at the bottom (by default) of the ArcPad window and is only visible whilst editing.The Main toolbar contains the tools necessary for managing your data. The Browse toolbar allows you to explore your data by panning, zooming, and retrieving information. The Edit toolbar and the Command bar activate the editing tools so you can add new data or update existing data. The StreetMap toolbar contains the tools for geocoding and routing with StreetMap data.

The Street Map toolbar is only available if the ArcPad Street Map extension is installed.

You can switch between toolbars by:

Tapping the chosen toolbar on the toolbar selector with a stylus or mouse
On a pc, pressing F2 to enable the keyboard, press tab to select the toolbar
On windows mobile (devices which have menu and tab buttons) press menu and use the arrows to select the toolbar

The Command bar is automatically displayed when a layer is selected for editing. The StreetMap toolbar is automatically displayed when a StreetMap layer is added to the ArcPad map.

By default on the left hand side of the toolbars is a large round button . This is the ‘Quick Action’ button. You can choose what action this tool performs, for fast easy access. You can choose to assign a single tool, making the Quick Action button a one click stop for your most used tool, or choose to assign multiple tools to create a Quick Action menu. By default when you click on this tool, a selection of commomly used file tools are listed as a menu. To modify the Quick Action button see the 'ArcPad Toolbar Manager' section.

The display of toolbars can be easily changed within ArcPad from the Quick Access menu, located on the right hand corner of the toolbar area, as shown below.

Toolbars can be docked to the top, bottom, left and right of the screen, and various parts of the total toolbar area hidden.

The Quick Access Menu icon gives you the options to:

Minimize Toolbar: reduce the toolbar area to a thin bar, displaying the maximum size of the map as possible. Clicking on the thin bar gives the option to maximize, and it returns to the normal mode.
Dock Toolbar: Chose to dock toolbars to the top, bottom, left or right of the screen.
Quick Action: Hide or show the Quick Action tool by check / unchecking it.
Taskbar: Hide or show the Taskbar.
Toolbar Selector: Hide or show the Toolbar Selector.
Toolbars: Hide or show any individual Toolbar.
Map Navigator: Hide or show the Map Navigator.
GPS Status Panel: Hide or show the GPS Status Panel.

You can also create new toolbars that contain built-in and custom tools using ArcPad Studio or with the ArcPad Toolbar Manager.

Toolbars can have an unlimited number of tools. A toolbar that contains more tools has a scroll toolbar on the right hand side, so the tools can be viewed by scrolling left and right. Scroll toolbar only appears if there are too many tools to fit within the allocated toolbar space.