You can set up a menu option in DOORS to run your third party editing tool

Hi all,

I find the above statement in the DXL help, but there is no further information, how to do that. Does anyone know the answer?

Thanks Harald
DEHKB - Mon Oct 05 12:28:03 EDT 2009

Re: You can set up a menu option in DOORS to run your third party editing tool
SystemAdmin - Tue Oct 06 10:56:15 EDT 2009

One approach is edit formal.dxl to add a menu item on a pulldown.

Re: You can set up a menu option in DOORS to run your third party editing tool
Zetareticuli - Wed Oct 14 10:01:34 EDT 2009

The closest thing to this that I know how to do is add custom scripts to the drop down menu and map those to hotkeys. The custom script can apply some type of formatting to the object you currently have selected. I've done this with a couple of scripts which hack into the RTF codes for the object text. This is analogous to applying a "style" from word. I suppose you could use this same approach to launch any "third party editing tool" by simply using the system call to initiate the application in question, but I fail to see how starting a third party edit tool will help with the current DOORS module unless the tool allows you to directly edit the current module. If there is something like this available, I'd be very interested.

Re: You can set up a menu option in DOORS to run your third party editing tool
DEHKB - Wed Oct 14 11:13:29 EDT 2009

Hi, thank you very much for your input. Just to be clear, I understood the note in the help such that you can run dxls directly from your "3rd party editor". Maybe this is a misinterpretation, because before that note it says that "you should use a third-party editing tool when coding, and then load your code into the DXL Interaction window to execute and debug it."

So my real question then is: Can you run a dxl directly from another tool via a menu option? If not, I don't understand what you need the menu option for.

Thanks again

Harald

Re: You can set up a menu option in DOORS to run your third party editing tool
SystemAdmin - Wed Oct 14 11:48:06 EDT 2009

DEHKB - Wed Oct 14 11:13:29 EDT 2009
Hi, thank you very much for your input. Just to be clear, I understood the note in the help such that you can run dxls directly from your "3rd party editor". Maybe this is a misinterpretation, because before that note it says that "you should use a third-party editing tool when coding, and then load your code into the DXL Interaction window to execute and debug it."

So my real question then is: Can you run a dxl directly from another tool via a menu option? If not, I don't understand what you need the menu option for.

Thanks again

Harald

See discussion in

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=14286737

Re: You can set up a menu option in DOORS to run your third party editing tool
DEHKB - Thu Oct 15 11:11:20 EDT 2009

I think the link you provided answers my question, Pekka. Thanks a lot for the input and for taking the time to all of you.

Cheers
Harald