Toolbar button names

mapsonx

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.

PeterJones

@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 CP and 64 buttons in this screenshot

(screenshot generated as part of my 2025 reply to a customize-toolbar discussion)

PeterJones

@mapsonx,

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.

mapsonx

@PeterJones said in Toolbar button names:

@mapsonx,

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.

Settings > Preferences > Backup > ☑ Enable session snapshot and periodic backup

That setting kinda represents the journey of discovery for me, who, is certainly a novice, and has been reminded regularly of my level of ignorance when it comes to an impressive tool like Notepad++. Obviously, the way manifested itself didn’t make sense to me, never seeing that effect before elsewhere.

I have several abnormalities with my OS that I;m trying to solve. Dealing with them, and trying to find the best text editor to make my job as uncomplicated and efficient as possible, has been a chore. I only have so much time. I forgot some of my previous posts, in part due to the fact I had multiple things going on at once. A lot to absorb. My apologies.

As far as the “Quick Codes” thing is concerned, it was probably a result of a google search/AI result inquiring about creating Notepad++ toolbar button titles/names, since some other text editors do have such a feature.

PeterJones

@mapsonx said in Toolbar button names:

Settings > Preferences > Backup > ☑ Enable session snapshot and periodic backup

That setting kinda represents the journey of discovery for me, who, is certainly a novice, and has been reminded regularly of my level of ignorance when it comes to an impressive tool like Notepad++. Obviously, the way manifested itself didn’t make sense to me, never seeing that effect before elsewhere.

That setting has nothing to do with toolbar buttons. If you just brought this up as an example of things that you didn’t understand but are learning the utility of, fine.

If you think that this affected your toolbar buttons in any way, shape, or form, you will need to explain what you think changed, and prove to yourself that it does change it by doing screenshots before and after toggling that option (and paste them here if you think it does prove your point).

since some other text editors do have such a feature.

What text editors do you think have this feature that you want? What setting in that other text editor do you change to get things to go from “normal” to “what you want”? If you give us that, (including “before” and “after” screenshots) we might be able to figure out what feature it is you really want, and be able to better answer you as to whether or not it can be done in Notepad++.

(I mentioned screenshots a couple of times. If you use Alt+PrintScreen or the modern Win11 Snipping Tool equivalent, you can just paste the image directly into your reply here, making it simply a matter of Ctrl+V to embed the image. But screenshots showing what it is you want would be really helpful for us to understand you.)