What do you want to do?

• Learn about various ways to integrate with other tools, see An extensible and modular environment

• Learn how to:

  • Invoking external tools from the Tools menu

  • Adding command line commands to the Tools menu

• Get reference information about the Tool Output window, see below the line.

The Tool Output window is available by choosing View>Messages>Tool Output.

This window displays any messages output by user-defined tools in the Tools menu, provided that you have selected the Redirect to Output Window option in the Configure Tools dialog box, see Configure Tools dialog box. When opened, this window is, by default, grouped together with the other message windows.

Context menu

This context menu is available:

These commands are available:

Copy

Copies the contents of the window.

Select All

Selects the contents of the window.

Clear All

Deletes the contents of the window.