How do I run my little "utility" type of routines nicely?

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3 total messages Started by Raymond Schappe Tue, 06 May 2008 16:05

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Author: Raymond Schappe
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 16:05

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I finally got around to create a small utility routine to nicely align 
my vars and it works great...

I based my work off of a "hello world" example and it added a menu item 
under the Help menu and it works great!

OK, so now I can see that extending the IDE (especially the editor) can 
be rather helpful to me... and I would like to add a few more routines.

The questions is, what is the best way for me to bring up a menu or some 
type of list so that I can select which of my little utility routines I 
wish to run????

Thanks for any ideas!
-Raymond

Re: How do I run my little "utility" type of routines nicely?

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Author: Erik Berry
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 07:04

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Raymond Schappe wrote:
> The questions is, what is the best way for me to bring up a menu or some 
> type of list so that I can select which of my little utility routines I 
> wish to run????

If this is a separate EXE you are running on the current editor file, I'd use 
the built-in tools menu configuration.  If these are OTA tools that interface 
directly with the editor contents, you could add main menu items for each 
tool or create a dockable window that exposes each function somehow.  For 
some ideas, see the FAQ here:
http://www.gexperts.org/opentools/

"How can I add a menu item to the IDE's main menu?"
"How can I add menu items to the code editor's popup menu?"
"How can I create a form that docks into the IDE like the Object Inspector?"
etc...

Erik

Re: How do I run my little "utility" type of routines nicely?

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Author: Raymond Schappe
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:56

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Thanks Erik!!

I am talking about OTA tools that I have created so your links are much 
appreciated... I will add my little "helper" routines to one of the menus!

-Raymond


> If this is a separate EXE you are running on the current editor file, 
> I'd use the built-in tools menu configuration.  If these are OTA tools 
> that interface directly with the editor contents, you could add main 
> menu items for each tool or create a dockable window that exposes each 
> function somehow.  For some ideas, see the FAQ here:
> http://www.gexperts.org/opentools/
> 
> "How can I add a menu item to the IDE's main menu?"
> "How can I add menu items to the code editor's popup menu?"
> "How can I create a form that docks into the IDE like the Object 
> Inspector?"
> etc...
> 
> Erik

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