Java Reference
In-Depth Information
IDEA
's external tool settings are saved as part of your
IDE
Settings and are shared
among all projects. Each external tool that you've configured appears in this list.
IDEA
ships with several entries in the
To o l s
menu already, to support the Perforce
version control system. If you aren't using Perforce, you can delete them if you
wish (although they're disabled by default, so you'll never see them anywhere
except in this dialog). You can use the buttons on the right to create new tools,
edit or reorder existing ones, or remove them. As an alternative to remove an
entry, the checkbox beside each tool enables or disables it temporarily, meaning
it isn't available for use in
IDEA
.
Creating a new tool entry
To define a new tool, click the
Add
button to bring up the
Edit Tool
dialog box
shown in figure 13.9. Enter a short name in the
Name
field; this name will be
used to identify the tool in
IDEA
's menus. If you wish, you can enter a more com-
plete explanation of the tool's purpose in the
Description
field.
Another optional field,
Group
, lets you organize your tools into discrete
groups of commands. To add a tool to a group, type the name of the group in the
tool's
Group
field, or select an existing group from the drop-down list. If the
name doesn't exist,
IDEA
adds it to the list for you. Groups have no properties
and aren't something you have to manage directly. If you delete all the tools from
a group, the group disappears from the selection box. Consequently, if you want
to rename a group, you must edit the
Group
setting for each tool that is part of
that group.
Figure 13.9
Creating a new tool entry is done from the Edit Tool dialog.
