Tornado

Tornado 2.0
User’s Guide
Cancel
Discards your changes without modifying the Tools menu.
The three text boxes near the bottom of the Customize Tools dialog box allow you to
specify or change the attributes of a custom command.
Menu Text
Contains the name of the custom command, as it appears in the Tools menu.
Tool Command
Specifies the instructions to execute your command. You can place anything
here that you could execute at the command prompt or in a batch file. Click the
button at the right of the box to see a pop-up menu including a browse option
and a list of macros which allow you to capture Tornado context in your
commands. See Macros for Customized Menu Commands, p.285 for explanations
of these macros.
Working Directory
Use this field to specify where (in what directory) to run the custom command.
You can edit the directory name in place, or click the button at the right of this
field to bring up a menu similar to the Tool Command menu. It includes a
directory browser where you can search for the right directory and the same
list of macros. To use the Tornado working directory, leave this field blank.
At the bottom of the Customize Tools dialog box are the following check boxes:
Prompt for Arguments
When this box is checked, Tornado prompts for command arguments using a
dialog box, when you click the new command. The command line is displayed
in a window where you can add additional information. (See Figure 8-5.)
Figure 8-5
Command Line Arguments Dialog Box
Redirect to Child Window
When this box is checked, Tornado redirects the output of your command to a
child window—a window contained within the Tornado application window.
Otherwise, the command runs independently, either as a console application
or a Windows application.
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