You can use the Customize Commands dialog box (shown in the following figure) to add system or user-defined Tcl commands to the Vivado IDE main menu and toolbar menu. To open the dialog box, select . The custom commands are available from the menu, with each command listed on the submenu.
Note: The Customize
Command menu is persistent with the Vivado
IDE and is restored each time the tool is launched. Custom commands are specific to each
user and are saved to the
commands.paini file output by
the Vivado IDE. For more information, see Outputs for Environment
Configuration in Appendix B.Tip: You can also use the
create_gui_custom_command Tcl command
to add custom menu commands. For details, see Adding Custom Menu Commands Using a Tcl
Command.Figure 1.
Customize Commands Dialog
Box
You can specify the following options:
- Custom Commands
-
- Add
- Adds new commands to the custom menu. In the popup window, type the
command name, and press Enter to add the
command to the list of custom commands.
- Remove
- Removes the selected commands from the custom menu.
- Move Up
- Moves the selected command up in the list.
- Move Down
- Moves the selected command down in the list.
- Edit Custom Command
- Specifies the properties for the selected command in the
Custom Commands list.
- Menu Name
- Specifies the name of the custom command.
- Description
- Specifies the text to display in the status bar when hovering over the menu command.
- Shortcut
- Defines a keyboard shortcut for the custom command. Click Add to open the Add Shortcut dialog box (Figure Add Shortcut Dialog Box), and select the new shortcut from the drop-down menu. To delete a shortcut, click Remove.
- Run Command
- Runs the specified Tcl command or procedure for the custom command.
- Source Tcl File
- Sources the specified Tcl script file for the custom command rather than running a single Tcl command or procedure.
- Toolbar Options
- Specifies whether to add a toolbar button icon for
the custom command to the main toolbar.
- Add to the Toolbar
- Enables the toolbar icon. When this check box is disabled, the custom command does not appear on the main toolbar.
- Icon File Path
- Specifies the file path to the toolbar button icon. Use a PNG, JPG, or GIF file of approximately 20x20 pixels. The Vivado IDE resizes larger images to fit onto the toolbar.