Custom toolbar for wrap text in Bold - fcodes? or extendscript?

[tracey.orso]

Hi,

I'm replacing the text_formattig toolbar with one that looks the same but instead of adding format overrides, it wraps the selected text with the bold, italic etc elements.

So in text_format.xml I have added, for example>

<ACTION command="WrapBold">

                              <images dark_normal="P_TextBold_18x18_N.png" dark_rollover="P_TextBold_18x18_R.png" normal="P_TextBold_18x18_N_D.png" rollover="P_TextBold_18x18_R_D.png"/>

                    </ACTION>

and in customui.cfg I have>

<Command WrapBold

   <Label WrapBold>

   <KeySequence \!c2b>

   <Definition \xF49 >

   <Mode All>>

This launches the Quick Insert menu, but I'm not sure if I can key down and select b then enter, to wrap with the required element.

Can I combine fcodes to do this? Does anyone know?

or am I better off calling Extendscript from the toolbar instead?

thanks

[Lynne A. Price]

Tracey,

    What version of FrameMaker are you running? FM 12 has a customizable Quick Element Toolbar that may be what you want. See:

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/using/WS2d2a17056e219198-10de064142a20156dc-8000.html

for information on both using it and customizing it.

--Lynne

[tracey.orso]

Thankyou Lynne, but it is Framemaker 11.

[Arnis_Gubins]

Tracey,

You might want to have a look at Klaus Daube's work on enhancing the toolbars at http://daube.ch/docu/fmaker55.html and also his write up on more details of customizing FM in this pdf: http://daube.ch/docu/files/etb-customising-fm.pdf

The work is mainly for unstructured FM, but it can also be applied to structured FM toolbars and I believe that you can use combined fcodes in some some command actions (there are some keyboard shortcuts that work this way).

[tracey.orso]

Thanks Arnis,

I managed to get it going by calling Extendscript registered commands....