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| <h1>Showing and hiding menu items and toolbar buttons</h1> |
| <p>You can choose to hide menu items and toolbar buttons and then show them again.</p> |
| <h2>Hiding a menu item or toolbar button</h2> |
| <p>To hide a menu item or toolbar button:</p> |
| <ol> |
| <li>Switch to the perspective that you want to configure.</li> |
| <li>Select <a class="command-link" href= |
| 'javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.customizePerspective")'><img src= |
| "PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.svg" alt="command link"> <b>Window > Perspective > Customize |
| Perspective...</b></a>.</li> |
| <li>Open the <b>Tool Bar Visibility</b> or <b>Menu Visibility</b> tab.</li> |
| <li>Find the item you want to hide. You can do this two ways: |
| <ul> |
| <li>Expand the menu or toolbar hierarchy to find the item you want to hide.</li> |
| <li>Click the <b>Filter by action set</b> check box to see a list of command groups which contribute items, and |
| choose the command group the item you wish to hide. Then navigate to the item in the hierarchy in the Structure |
| tree.</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Hover over the item to get additional information: |
| <ul> |
| <li>a description of what the item does</li> |
| <li>the name of the command group which contributes the item (click the link in this item to switch to the |
| <b>Action Set Availability</b> tab with the appropriate command group selected).</li> |
| <li>any key bindings associated with the command the item performs (click the link in this item to open the |
| <b>Keys</b> page of the <b>Preferences</b> dialog with the command selected, if possible).</li> |
| <li>if the item is dynamic, a preview of its current appearance (dynamic items are listed as [Dynamic]).</li> |
| </ul> |
| </li> |
| <li>Uncheck the check box next to the item. Uncheck a menu to hide all its children.</li> |
| <li>Click <b>OK</b> to cause the changes to take effect.</li> |
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| <p>Using the tooltip which appears over items, you can navigate to the <b>Action Set Availability</b> tab and make |
| the entire command group unavailable if you wish to remove all menu items, toolbar buttons and keybindings of all |
| commands contributed by the command group.</p> |
| <h2>Showing a menu item or toolbar button</h2> |
| <p>To show a menu item or toolbar button, you can follow the same instructions as hiding one, except check the check |
| box instead of unchecking it.</p> |
| <p>If an item you want to make visible is grayed out, this is because the command group which contributes it is not |
| available. You need to make it available before you can show or hide items it contributes. You can do this by |
| hovering over the item, and clicking the command group link in the tooltip which appears.</p> |
| <h3 class="related">Related concepts</h3><a href="../concepts/concepts-4.htm">Perspectives</a> |
| <h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3><a href="tasks-24.htm">Changing where perspectives open</a><br> |
| <a href="tasks-31.htm">Specifying the default perspective</a><br> |
| <a href="tasks-9i.htm">Saving a user defined perspective</a> |
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