Using Custom Toolbar Buttons

You can add one or more custom buttons (icons) to the Jade Platform development environment toolbar to run a specific application, JadeScript method, or Jade test cases in standard run or debug mode, regardless of the current schema. You can then click these buttons to initiate the required action without having to switch the Jade Platform development environment view to the required environment.

Custom toolbar buttons apply to your view of the Jade Platform development environment; not that of other users.

A button with the caption + is positioned to the right of the clipboard toolbar. This button initiates a dialog from which you define the functionality to be assigned to a new button that will be added to the toolbar area. You must select a schema and application from the relevant combo boxes on the dialog. For details, see "Adding a Toolbar Button to Run a Script or Application", elsewhere in this document.

When you click an added custom button with the specified caption, a new copy of the selected application is started and it runs under the selected schema. The following image is an example of custom buttons in the Jade Platform development environment toolbar.

Hovering the mouse over a custom toolbar button displays the specified functionality; for example: 

Start application 'ErewhonShop' using schema 'ErewhonInvestmentsViewSchema'

The bubble help display also includes Use mouse right click to edit the button definition.

To edit or delete an existing custom button

  1. Right‑click the button. The custom button definition dialog (Update existing run application / script button) is then displayed with the options and combo box selections defined for the button.

  2. Click the Delete button to remove the button from the toolbar, or edit your specified values and then click the Update button to change the actions assigned to the button.

When the Jade Platform development environment is closed, any defined custom button descriptions are stored in your user preferences file so that your custom buttons are restored when you next start the Jade Platform development environment.

All combo boxes filter the displayed list according to the content of any text typed into the text box portion of the combo box.

2022.0.01 and higher