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The tools menu can be extended with any external program which is command line oriented. The output of such a program will be caught and displayed in the messages window.
Adding a tool to the tools menu can be done using the ”Options—Tools” menu. This will display the tools dialog. The tools dialog is shown in figure (6.20).
Figure 6.20: | The tools configuration dialog |
In the tools dialog, the following actions are available:
The definitions of the tools are written in the desktop configuration file. So unless auto-saving of the desktop file is enabled, the desktop file should be saved explicitly after the dialog is closed.