User commands in menubar

[steve64]

Please consider the following extension to the IDE:
allowing to add one (or better more) user definable commands (paths to executable Windows files) under the Tools entry of the menubar.
This would be helpful, for instance, to invoke external apps for analysis, source code version control,
or any other purpose.

[cfbsoftware]

Thank you for your suggestion. I’m pleased to be able to report that enhancement had already been planned for the next feature release.

[steve64]

Great! Thanks a lot.

[cfbsoftware]

We are now actively working on this enhancement. The design allows for context-sensitive parameters e.g. %FilePath%, %FileDir%, %FileName%, %FileRoot% which can be substituted with values corresponding to the file currently showing in the editor. For example, something like:

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%FilePath%  = D:\AstrobeM3-v6.4\Examples\General\Info.mod
%FileDir%   = D:\AstrobeM3-v6.4\Examples\General\
%FileName%  = Info.mod
%FileRoot%  = Info

Are there any other parameters that we might be able to evaluate that would be useful for the sort of commands that you are interested in?

Note - for other cases you will also be able to set an option on a command so that it prompts you for the parameters before it executes.

[cfbsoftware]

We were planning to add a new menu item 'Open file location ...' to allow you to launch Windows Explorer in the folder which contains the current file. However, now we have a user-customisable Tools menu, that feature no longer needs to be hard-coded.

The Tools.ini file that you can use to define your own menu items will include the following entry as a working example:

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[Command0]
MenuItem=&Open file location ...
Path=C:\Windows\explorer.exe
Parameters=%FileDir%
WorkingFolder=%FileDir%
ConsoleApp=False
Prompt=False

Here's a preview of the end-result:

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[steve64]

It looks fine, looking forward for the release...

[cfbsoftware]

v7.0 of Astrobe has now been released. The Tools menu now has three additional items by default. All of these have been implemented just by adding entries to the new Tools.ini configuration file:

Tools Menu

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