Hello,
I think that It'll be easy to have a (External) Tools menu in B4X IDE to use external tools within the IDEs.
Each menu is a shortcut to run an Exe or a batch file but we can configure the arguments part.
It's better to have some macros (converted to the correct values automatically while running the external tool) to easy edition of arguments. For eg.:
- %PROJECTDIR%: Directory of the current project
- %PROJECTFULLPATH%: Full path to the b4x project
- %PROJECTTYPE%: b4i, b4j, b4r, b4a
- %PROJECTNAME%: the main b4x project file
- ...
So I propose to have those fields at least when adding an external tool:
- Tool name
- Exe or Batch file
- Arguments
- Run before building (check box)
- A list of usable macros (double click will add the clicked macro to the Arguments field).
I think that It'll be easy to have a (External) Tools menu in B4X IDE to use external tools within the IDEs.
Each menu is a shortcut to run an Exe or a batch file but we can configure the arguments part.
It's better to have some macros (converted to the correct values automatically while running the external tool) to easy edition of arguments. For eg.:
- %PROJECTDIR%: Directory of the current project
- %PROJECTFULLPATH%: Full path to the b4x project
- %PROJECTTYPE%: b4i, b4j, b4r, b4a
- %PROJECTNAME%: the main b4x project file
- ...
So I propose to have those fields at least when adding an external tool:
- Tool name
- Exe or Batch file
- Arguments
- Run before building (check box)
- A list of usable macros (double click will add the clicked macro to the Arguments field).
