Eclipse IDE Pocket Guide

Toolbars and Coolbars

A toolbar is a set of buttons (and sometimes other controls) that perform commonly used actions when you click on them. Usually toolbars appear near the top of the window that contains them. A collection of toolbars is called a coolbar (see Figure 9).

Figure 2-8. A coolbar is made up of toolbars. You reorder the individual toolbars by clicking and dragging the separators between them.

Tip

Most Eclipse documentation uses the term toolbar to refer to both toolbars and coolbars, so the rest of this book will do the same unless it's necessary to make a special distinction between the two.

In the "Views" section, you saw some examples of toolbars that were part of views. The toolbar at the top of the Workbench window is called the main toolbar (seen back in Figure 2). As you edit different files, the main toolbar will change to show tools that apply to the current editor.