User Tools

[Ian Webling]

Hi

Does anyone have any information about User Tools in FF.  I can't find anything about them in either the help document or the forum.

Thanks
-Ian

[TechSupport]

Hi Ian,

User Tools are programs that you can invoke at anytime via a user defined Hot Key, or at the pre or post compile stage. The program being invoked can be anything that the user determines. For example, at pre-compile the user could invoke an EXE that copies all of your source files to a backup directory. You write the actual EXE to do the work or you could invoke a 3rd party commercial program like, say, a To-do list program.

Command Line: The actual full path and exe name of the program to execute.

Parameters: This is anything that you want to feed to the exe. Only you would know what your exe needs. To make things a little more convenient for you, FireFly allows you to embed some parameters that get replaced prior to sending the command line to the exe. Using these parameters is optional.

Working Folder: FireFly will switch to this directory, then run your user tool, then switch back to the previous directory. This is optional.

Accelerator: If you want to invoke your user tool at anytime then you can define a Hot key or accelerator that will invoke the tool. Just make sure not to use a key combination that is already in use by FireFly.

Action: These options are pretty self explanatory.

Let me know if there is somethign you are trying to do that you need some help with.

[Ian Webling]

Thanks for the reply.  I was looking (hoping) for something along the lines of the JellyFish Plugins.   Am I correct in assuming that FF does not support plugins?

Thanks
-Ian

[TechSupport]

No, sorry, no FireFly plugins like you see with JellyFish.