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Actions Tutorial

This tutorial consists of a series of steps which show how to create, register, and customize custom actions and action groups. By registering actions, a plugin can add its own menu items, toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts to the IDE user interface.

The source code for the action_basics code sample is used throughout this tutorial.

10 November 2026