Example external tool configurations

Paul Curtis

September 17, 2012 15:28

Here's a place to add external tool configuration items. This is what I happen to be using...

<tools> 
  <if host_os="win"> 
    <item name="Tool.Notepad" wait="no"> 
      <menu>&amp;Notepad</menu> 
      <text>Notepad</text> 
      <tip>Open the selected item with Notepad</tip>
      <key>Ctrl+L, Ctrl+I</key> 
      <message>Opening with Notepad</message> 
      <commands>
        &quot;C:/Windows/notepad.exe&quot; &quot;$(InputPath)&quot;
      </commands>
    </item>
  </if>

  <!-- UltraEdit - http://www.ultraedit.com/ -->

  <if host_os="win">
    <item name="Tool.UltraEdit" wait="no">
      <menu>&amp;UltraEdit</menu>
      <text>UltraEdit</text>
      <tip>Open the selected item with UltraEdit</tip>
      <key>Ctrl+L, Ctrl+U</key>
      <message>UltraEditing</message>
      <commands>
        &quot;$(ULTRAEDITDIR)/Uedit32&quot; &quot;$(InputPath)&quot;
      </commands>
    </item>
  </if>

  <!-- Uncrustify - http://uncrustify.sourceforge.net/ -->

  <item name="Tool.Uncrustify" wait="yes">
    <menu>Uncrustif&amp;y</menu>
    <text>Uncrustify</text>
    <tip>Format the selected item with Uncrustify</tip>
    <key>Ctrl+L, Ctrl+Y</key>
    <message>Uncustifying</message>
    <commands>
      &quot;$(UNCRUSTIFYDIR)/uncrustify&quot; -c &quot;$(UNCRUSTIFYDIR)/gnu-indent.cfg&quot; --replace &quot;$(InputPath)&quot;
    </commands>
  </item>

  <!-- Araxis Merge - http://www.araxis.com/ -->

  <if host_os="win">
    <item name="Araxis.Compare" wait="yes">
      <menu>Ara&amp;xis Compare</menu>
      <text>Araxis Compare</text>
      <tip>Open the selected item in Araxis Compare</tip>
      <key>Ctrl+L, Ctrl+V</key>
      <message>Comparing</message>
      <commands>
        &quot;$(ARAXISMERGEDIR)/Compare&quot; &quot;$(InputPath)&quot;
      </commands>
    </item>
  </if>

</tools>

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Richard Webb

October 11, 2012 15:00
Thanks for the hint. Now I can launch vim and use the One True Editor on my code!
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Chris

February 23, 2013 14:16
Hi, I am brand new to CrossWorks and am looking to add PC-Lint. To start with I wanted to get familiar with External Tools, so I entered this subset of the above example into my tools.xml file:

<tools>
<item name="Tool.Notepad" wait="no">
    <menu>&Notepad</menu>
    <text>Notepad</text>
    <tip>Open the selected item with Notepad</tip>
    <key>Ctrl+L, Ctrl+I</key>
    <message>Opening with Notepad</message>
    <commands>
      "C:/Windows/notepad.exe" "$(InputPath)"
    </commands>
</item>
</tools>

I closed, then restarted CrossWorks but I cannot find Notepad on any menu! The CTRL-L+CTRL-I shortcut works so it appears the tools.xml file is being read, but what am I missing to see the entry on a menu? And I assume it will go on the Tools menu? This is the Crossworks 2.3 ARM download under the 30-day eval. Thanks!
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Paul Curtis

February 23, 2013 14:27
External tools are presented in the Open With menu on the right-click of a project node.
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Chris

February 23, 2013 14:54
Thanks for the quick reply! OK, so now using information in the Crossworks Help listing, I added this entry:

<item name="Tool.cpplint">
    <menu>&C++lint (Unit Check)</menu>
    <text>C++lint</text>
    <tip>The best in static analysis!</tip>
    <key>Ctrl+L, Ctrl+L</key>
    <message>Analyzing...</message>
    <match>*.c;*.cpp</match>
    <commands>
      "$(LINTDIR)lint-nt" "$(LINTDIR)/lnt/co-gcc.lnt"
      $(DEFINES) $(INCLUDES) -D__GNUC__ -u -b +macros -w2 -e537 +fie +ffn "-width(0,4)" -hF1
      "-format=%f:%l:%C:s%t:s%m" "$(InputPath)"
    </commands>
</item>

When I run this, I don't get any analysis output. In the output window with "Output" selected in the dropdown, there is this text:

Analyzing...
Analyzing... benchmark.c
Command line: $(LINTDIR)lint-nt $(LINTDIR)/lnt/co-gcc.lnt
-D__THUMB -D__RAM_BUILD -DDEBUG -I. -D__GNUC__ -u -b +macros -w2 -e537 +fie +ffn -width(0,4) -hF1
-format=%f:%l:%C:s%t:s%m C:/temp/cfiles/benchmark.c
Finished Analyzing...

Note that there are no quotes despite the HTML codes in tools.cfg. Is that significant?

For completeness, by switching to Tasks in the dropdown, there are 2 entries:

Analyzing...

Completed

Finished Analyzing...

Completed

Any hints? Thanks!
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Paul Curtis

February 23, 2013 14:57
So, did you set the LINTDIR macro? Project > Macros?
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Paul Curtis

February 23, 2013 14:58
..also notice this:

$(LINTDIR)lint-nt $(LINTDIR)/lnt/co-gcc.lnt

Surely a slash is mssing?
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Chris

February 23, 2013 15:22
It was the missing backslash _and_ the fact I misread the help listing, which had the command spread over three lines; I assumed carriage returns were not significant in the XML, but it seems they are. When I deleted the carriage returns and had just one long command I started getting output! Two minor, final questions:

1. I can use the Forward/Back buttons to navigate to an error, but I can't double-click on the error message text in the output window to jump to the corresponding line, nor does the output window scroll automatically to keep the error output line in sync with the error I've navigated to with either the Forward or Back buttons. Am I missing something here?

2. Is there a way to have the IDE re-read tools.xml without exiting/reopening? Thanks!
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Chris

February 23, 2013 15:26
Refinement: I just found the errors on the "Tasks" dropdown and that's where I can navigate, correct?
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Chris

February 28, 2013 15:51
When I run the Lint-NT external tool as per above, I get the following error message:

C:\Program Files\Rowley Associates Limited\CrossWorks for ARM 2.3\include\stdint.h:66:2:sError:s#error unknown target

This appears to be because there's no -D__TARGET_PROCESSOR= macro generated, even though Target="MK10DN512xxx10" appears in my .hzp file.

Shouldn't this be generated by the IDE and sent via $(DEFINES)?
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Eric Singer

March 12, 2013 18:18
Hi,

I'm trying to get an external tool working on OSX. I would like to be able to use BBEdit as my code editor. Ideally, I'd like it to open source files in BBEdit automatically when I double-click them in the Project Explorer. If that's not possible, then any other method of launching/loading files in BBEdit from within CrossStudio for ARM. Below is the config code I'm using. It has no discernible effect on anything in CrossStudio e.g. doesn't appear to be added to any menu, sub-menu, context menu or toolbar, nor invoked using the keystroke I've defined. Anyone?

Thanks,

Eric

<tools>
<item name="Tool.BBEdit" wait="no">
    <menu>&BBEdit</menu>
    <text>BBEdit</text>
    <tip>BBEdit</tip>
    <key>Ctrl+Shift+E</key>
    <message>Opening with BBEdit</message>
    <commands>
      open -a "BBEdit" "$(InputPath)"
    </<commands>
</item>
</tools>
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Richard Webb

March 12, 2013 18:41
Your "command" section doesn't look right. I use this for gvim. Works great.

<tools>

<if host_os="win">
<item name="Tool.gvim" wait="no">
<menu>&gvim</menu>
<text>gvim</text>
<tip>Open the selected item with gvim</tip>
<key>Ctrl+L, Ctrl+G</key>
<message>launching gvim</message>
<commands>
"$(VIM)/gvim.exe" "$(InputPath)"
</commands>
</item>
</if>

</tools>
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Eric Singer

March 13, 2013 17:52
Even if the command section was wrong, I'd expect some sign of the tool showing up in CrossWorks (then failing on execution). But, nothing.
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Paul Curtis

March 13, 2013 17:56
The tool output will show up in the Output Window in a new log.
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Eric Singer

March 13, 2013 20:57
How do I invoke the tool? I see no evidence of it within CrossWorks.
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