Title | | » | Add customizable Tools menu |
Assigned To | | » | Brendan MacLean |
Type | | » | Todo |
Area | | » | Skyline |
Priority | | » | 3 |
Milestone | | » | 2.1 |
We should add a Tools menu, which allows you to run an EXE, optionally passing arguments to its command-line, like the currently open Skyline document, the active replicate, etc. A good model of this is the Visual Studio Tools > External Tools form. It uses $(element) syntax for special values like $(ProjectFileName). The form also has a popup menu button for adding these special values to the "Arguments" field. All good to copy for the Skyline version.
Also, we should add arguments to SkylineRunner to allow external programs to add/edit these menu items. This would allow a 3rd party installer to modify the tools on the tools menu during installation.
Good project for a summer intern.