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Question Can  I remove Viewer, Editor,Advanced and Output default tabs? I want to create my own tabs with customized groups having existing buttons in them.
I want to retain these changes in ocx so that those will be same when I open it again.

Answer

Yes. This is possible.  Click “customize ribbon” in caption:

And uncheck “Tab visible”

Repeat this for all the tabs.

To add a new tab please press “Add tab”, you will see a new tab. You can change its name and add buttons from the left panel by selecting a button and pressing “Add” or double clicking the button or dragging and dropping it to the panel:

Press “OK” and you will see a toolbar like this:

Question. How to remove command line window through xml?

Answer

It can be done via command line:

Commandline

Off.

Xml example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<cadsofttools version="2">
    <!-- Hide tab set with open drawing -->
  <command text="commandline"/>
  <command text="off"/>
</cadsofttools>

 

See HideToolbarsPanels.xml to know more about handling toolbars and panels.

After executing the following code from HideToolbarsPanels.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<cadsofttools version="2">
    <!-- Hide tab set with open drawing -->
  <command text="HideTabSet"/>
    <!-- Hide application system buttons -->
  <command text="HideSysButtons"/>
    <!-- Hide application statusbar -->
  <command text="HideStatusbar"/>
    <!-- Hide tab set with layouts -->
  <command text="HideLayoutPanel"/>
    <!-- Hide Interface -->
  <command text="HideInterface"/>
    <!-- Hide menu button -->
  <command text="HideMenuButton"/>
    <!-- Hide Ribbon -->
  <command text="HideRibbon"/><command text="on"/>
</cadsofttools>

 

CADEditorX will look like this: