Toolbar button names
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Is there a way to add the names of the toolbar buttons. I found the suggestion to use the Customize Toolbar plugin and its “Quick Codes” feature, but it sounds like altering the icons themselves.
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@mapsonx ,
If you hover over the toolbar, it shows the action name:
If that’s all you want, the feature already exists.
But if you wanted the toolbar to list
[New] [Open] [Save] [Save All] ...instead of having icons: no, Notepad++ cannot do that.I found the suggestion to use the Customize Toolbar plugin and its “Quick Codes” feature, but it sounds like altering the icons themselves.
I am curious where you found such advice. The Quick Codes would replace the actual icon with text… but there’s only room for 1-3 characters, which obviously wouldn’t be able to handle the full action name. (It doesn’t “alter” the icons, in the sense that you aren’t editing an image file, or editing the source code of Notepad++ or anything. It just tells Notepad++ to use its text with colored background instead of using the normal icon for a given toolbar button.)
Examples of the Quick Codes results can be seen in the
CPand64buttons in this screenshot
(screenshot generated as part of my 2025 reply to a customize-toolbar discussion) -
I previously said,
I am curious where you found such advice.
If you are talking about my reply to your 2025 question, where half of your question was about changing the icons, you misunderstood my answer, because I was talking (at that point) about Notepad++'s built-in icon-replacement, not the Customize Toolbar plugin. And I wasn’t talking about using “action names” in the button at all.
