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Michal Krasny
Michal Krasny

Reputation: 5916

Eclipse External Tool Configuration - separate button on toolbar for a specific configuration

Is it possible to create an External Tool Configuraion for running an external tool and assign it to a separate button on a Toolbar? When I use two different External Tool Configurations, I have to select from dropdown menu and that's not perfect. I use Eclipse Luna.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2420

Answers (2)

Piyush Chordia
Piyush Chordia

Reputation: 1375

If you are using RAD, there exists a separate button in the toolbar for external tools. enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Chandrayya G K
Chandrayya G K

Reputation: 8849

You have to write your own plugin for this there is no other way.

You can call the external program launch configurations by keyboard. Assign keyboard short cut key for External Tools.. command as shown here. I assigne Ctrl + `

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When you press this key then below dialog will popup.

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Type the name of external configuration to filter, when your configuration is selected in the tree then press Enter twice to launch the program.

Other way

Click on dropdown button of the Run external tool button then you will get the below menu.

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You can press the corresponding number assigned to each launch configuration. In the picture shown above when you press 3 then tmp will be called.

Upvotes: 1

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