Customize External Tools

Purpose: This dialog box allows you to manage external tools. You can modify the captions of their menus, their command lines and arguments and their initial directory. Not all of the programs can take advantage of Hackman's environment customization. For more information, consult their manuals.

Add: adds a record for an external tool. The limit is 15 tools.
Remove: removes an existing record
Move Up: moves one level up (in the menu order) the selected tool
Move Down: moves one level down (in the menu order) the selected tool
Menu: specifies the menu caption that will be used in the External Menu
Command: a full path string, that leads to the external tool
Arguments: command line arguments to be passed to the tool upon its initialization (see Table below). The order of the arguments should comply with the target application's requirements
Directory: sets the initial working directory for the specified tool

Same as %F, but the long path names are converted to shorts (MS-DOS compatibility)
Argument Explanation
%HM_F Full path and name of the logged file
%HM_P Full path of the logged file (not name)
%HM_N Uses the name of the logged file without any path information
%HM_L Same as %F, but truncates the file's extension
%HM_T Same as %N, but truncates the file's extension
%HM_D Uses the Drive path, obtained from logged file's path
%HM_FD
Other Any other argument that is not contained to the above list, will be passed as-is to the program.

Example: To execute C:\MyApp\AppName.exe -o -p /f c:\docname\doc.txt, you should use the following as argument:
 -o -p /f %HM_F
and the following command in in the command field:
c:\MyApp\AppName.exe

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