Something that has really been bugging me for a long time about Eclipse IDE / Flex Builder is the fact that I could not figure out how to remove items from the toolbar at the top after I install some needed plugins. Well all the plugins are needed but some of them don’t really get used all that much. A good example for me would be that I have the cfeclipse plugin but I really don’t use CF all that much and the cfeclipse plugin once installed puts a lot of extra stuff at the top in the toolbar.
Here is a screen grab of what kind of mess I was dealing with before I figured this out.
Now if you have been looking for this solution it is pretty easy once you know where to look. It is actually easier than changing your code editor font size. If you have ever had to figure that one out you know what I mean. Pretty damn difficult if you don’t know where to look.
Here are the steps
1. After Eclipse / Flex Builder is open you need to go to the Window menu and select Customize Perspective.
2. Once the Customize Perspective panel is open you need to select Commands tab.
3. In my case I clicked on CFEclipse in the left hand menu and to the right you will see all the buttons and short cuts displayed for that plugin. All I did was uncheck the box next to CFEclipse then then click OK. Now I have a toolbar that is not over loaded with buttons Yeah!
Let me know if this works for you guys as well cause for me it has been months of wondering how to do this.
Groovymag