The Tools menu |
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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: