Invoking External Tools

dhayduk · Post by **dhayduk** » Fri Aug 01, 2014 10:46 pm

Upgrading from v4.7 (hey, it worked great!) to v7.4.

The old version had all the external tools listed right on the tools menu, so I put my most-used tool last and it could be invoked quickly with Alt-T, up-arrow, enter. Or I also assigned hotkeys, so Alt-T, y was for "Prett&y Print", etc.

Now with v7.4, all tools are under the "External tools" submenu. And all my automatic keystroke habits aren't working... I tried to use customize to put the tools directly under the tools menu but that didn't work (seems like tools could only be added to toolbars and not menus).

And I didn't see any options for not using the "External Tools" submenu.

I also tried fiddling with GUIState.xml (removing the BeginGroup attribute, etc), but couldn't get the tools to appear on the Tools menu.

Is there something else I can try? If not, can this be considered an RFE to allow for the tools menu to be flat and not list everything under External Tools submenu?

kengrubb · Post by **kengrubb** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 8:45 am

Did you go to Configure, Preferences, Tools to set up your tools?

dhayduk · Post by **dhayduk** » Wed Aug 06, 2014 4:12 pm

kengrubb wrote:Did you go to Configure, Preferences, Tools to set up your tools?

Yes, I have the tools configured. But they show up under Tools, External Tools, XXXX.

What I want is the "older" layout of Tools, XXX...