Rearranging to tools toolbar items

[bjbarton]

I have just configured my tools and along with that the tools menu. However, the Tools toolbar is not ordered the same way. In fact, it appears to be ordered according to how the tools were added.

I would like the Tools toolbar to reflect the organization I have in the Tools menu. How can I do this?

[Bob Hansen]

Try to modify the registry settings at:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Helios\TextPad 4\Tools.

Might be easiest to rename the folders 0-9 than modifying their contents.

[bjbarton]

Bob,

Thanks for getting back to me.
The entries in the registry are as they are on the menu (in the order I set up using the Configuration/Preferences/Tools setup.
I don't know where the Tool sequencing is coming from. But this is what I want to change. I had the default Java tools set as Tool1, Tool2, and Tool3. I had to delete those and now the first three tools are empy.
Where is the Tools toolbar getting it's data from?
Can the data be changed (in particular the association between the icons on the toolbar and the items selected in the Tools and Configure menus)?

Thanks again for your suport.

[Bob Hansen]

OK, no known answer by me, just grasping, but how about this?

1. From the Main Menu bar: Configure, Preferences, Keyboard.
To the right, under Categories, select Tools.
To the right of that, under commands, reassign the Hot Keys. It looks like sorting may be by the Ctl-Key number. If that is the case, then maybe you can make the change here. This may turn out to be the same as the Registry Settings that I pointed you to in my earlier post, but just trying to point you into areas that seem like possiblilties to me.

or

2. From the Main Menu bar, Configure, Preferences, Tools.
To the right on the "Add" tools screen, look above the list of tools for the arrows that allow you to reposition the Tools on the Tool menu.

Also found that some configuration changes will not take if any document is open. So before you make config changes, be sure to Close All Documents, Make the config changes, Close TextPad. Reopen TextPad.

[MudGuard]

And before hacking the registry, make sure all Textpad instances are closed - otherwise the changes will be overriden when one of the instances is closed...

Changes to the registry would not work on open instances of Textpad anyway...

[bjbarton]

Thank you for trying to help.

I am starting to get frustrated.
Bob, I tried changing the keyboard settings. The result was that the Tools menu item now has reasonable Ctrl-# values. The registry matches the Tools menu (and the Configure/Preferences/Tools listing).
However....
The Tool toolbar still shows 16 tools (numbered from 1 to 16 with hammer icons). When I move my mouse over tool 1 the tooltip says "Tool 1" and clicking it does nothing.
Therefore, I assume that however the toolbar is being set up, it is not being effected by anything that I am doing.

Somewhere, there should be a mapping for the toolbar.... Where is it??????

Again, thank you Bob, and MudGuard for offering your suggestions.

Regards,

Bruce