The Tools menu



This option allows you to add other applications to the menu and invoke them as needed. Most commonly, you would use this option to list all the Web browsers you wish to test the HTML code with, to add a visual Web editor such as Antechinus Web Effects, FrontPage, and add compilers, linkers, and other tools.
To add a new tool to the Tools menu:

The new application has been added to the Tools menu. You can now close the Add & Edit Tools dialog, and call the application from the Tools menu.

You can parse the output that the new tool produces (e.g., a compiler) to provide automatic error navigation. To enable this functionality, do the following: 


 

Select "Tools / Add & Edit Tools / Java compiler" from the menu for an example of using VBScript to parse the output for the compilation errors. To add an error to the list, use:
App.AddError ( FileName, OutputLineIndex, LineIndex, CharacterIndex ), where: