How do I run my little "utility" type of routines nicely?

[Raymond Schappe]

I finally got around to create a small utility routine to nicely align
my vars and it works great...

I based my work off of a "hello world" example and it added a menu item
under the Help menu and it works great!

OK, so now I can see that extending the IDE (especially the editor) can
be rather helpful to me... and I would like to add a few more routines.

The questions is, what is the best way for me to bring up a menu or some
type of list so that I can select which of my little utility routines I
wish to run????

Thanks for any ideas!
-Raymond

[Erik Berry]

Raymond Schappe wrote:
> The questions is, what is the best way for me to bring up a menu or some
> type of list so that I can select which of my little utility routines I
> wish to run????

If this is a separate EXE you are running on the current editor file, I'd use
the built-in tools menu configuration. If these are OTA tools that interface
directly with the editor contents, you could add main menu items for each
tool or create a dockable window that exposes each function somehow. For
some ideas, see the FAQ here:
http://www.gexperts.org/opentools/

"How can I add a menu item to the IDE's main menu?"
"How can I add menu items to the code editor's popup menu?"
"How can I create a form that docks into the IDE like the Object Inspector?"
etc...

Erik

[Raymond Schappe]

Thanks Erik!!

I am talking about OTA tools that I have created so your links are much
appreciated... I will add my little "helper" routines to one of the menus!

-Raymond