How to copy/move buttons from one button bar to another easily

[oko]

Is there a trick to copy/move more buttons in one step from one button bar to another easily? Copy+paste one by one is time-consuming. I tried to copy text between bar files but tc does not recognize it. And replacing numbers (button1, cmd1, path1..., button2, cmd2, path2...) is hard to do.

[Horst.Epp]

I use the Button Bar Editor from the Ultra TC Editors.
https://utceditors.wincmd.ru/tc_tools/downloads.htm
It has all editing features one can expect, and also has an Import function.
So you can be in one .bar file and import all buttons from another one.
After the import you can edit, move or delete the imported buttons.

[Dalai]

You could copy the whole .bar file and delete the buttons you don't need from the copy. Copying text between .bar files works but it requires the Buttoncount to be changed accordingly and the numbering must also be correct.

Ultra TC Editors has a Button Bar Editor, maybe it's worth a look.

[beb]

...I tried to copy text between bar files but tc does not recognize it. And replacing numbers (button1, cmd1, path1..., button2, cmd2, path2...) is hard to do.

Going this way you'd also need to correct the buttons number at the beginning of the .bar file:
E.g. initial state:

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 [Buttonbar]
Buttoncount=27

After adding three more buttons it should become 27+3=30:

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 [Buttonbar]
Buttoncount=30

And yes, the whole process in the use case of drastically reorganizing the toolbars is just awful.
Luckily, this is not an everyday event, at least for me (I have 12 buttonbars, but they are more or less stable, and one of them is a 'bars.bar' to quickly accessing to any of them).

[Vochomurka]

PowerPro script

[hi5]

Pretty dumb perhaps, but why not start two TCs, one with the source button bar, and one with the target button bar.
Now right click, copy in the source TC bar, and paste in the target TC bar.

[oko]

2hi5
you will get subbar in bar after pasting in the target bar. The aim is to get buttons (not bar with buttons) in target bar.