The Button Bar
The SecureCRT button bar is a user-configurable row of buttons that you can use to quickly access frequently needed actions and commands. You can toggle the button bar display on or off by selecting or unselecting the Button Bar option on the View menu, or by selecting or unselecting the Show button bar option on the Terminal/Appearance/Window category of the Session Options dialog or the Terminal/Appearance category of the Global Options dialog.
Note: To perform an action, which has been mapped to a button, on all connected sessions, use the SHIFT+<click> combination. If the mapped action is Launch Application, only one instance of the application will be launched.
The button bar assigned to the default session is used for all new and Quick Connect sessions. The default button bar is normally assigned to the default session, but this can be changed by editing the Default Session category in the Global Options dialog.
Note: The default button bar can be edited, but cannot be deleted.
To create a new button bar, right-click on any part of the button bar to open the context menu and then select the New Button Bar… option. This opens the New Button Bar dialog which allows you to add a named button bar to the global list of button bars available to SecureCRT. A button bar can be assigned to a session in the Terminal/Appearance/Window category of the Session Options dialog, or by selecting a different button bar in the button bar drop-down list while the session is active.
To add a button to the button bar, right-click anywhere in the button bar and select the New Button… option; this will open the Map Button dialog. To change an existing button, right-click on the button you want to change and choose the Edit Button… option. Each button on a bar can be assigned one action. The list of actions available is the same as the list of actions available for keymap key assignments and includes Send String, Run Script, Menu, Scroll Bar, Telnet, SSH, and VT function genres. You can rearrange the buttons on the button bar by right-clicking on a button and selecting the Move Button Left or Move Button Right option.
Note: In order to display an ampersand character (&) in a button bar, it must be preceded by a second ampersand. For example, to label a button "A & B", the text entered in the Label field of the Map Button Bar dialog should be "A && B".
You can also create a button that launches local commands. By assigning a button to the function Launch Application and entering the appropriate executable file, SecureCRT can open whatever application you need.
Note: Some actions might fail or be ignored if the active session is not connected or is in a state where the action cannot be performed.
To remove a button from a button bar, right-click the button that you want to delete and select Delete Button from the context menu.
To delete a button bar, select the button bar you want to delete in the button bar drop-down list (making it the active button bar for the session), right-click anywhere in the button bar, and choose the Delete Button Bar option.
Assignments of keys in keymaps and of buttons in button bars are independent of each other; i.e., assigning a key to an action does not affect any assignments or labels in button bars, but you can edit your keymap and button bars separately to have corresponding settings.